• Changes in the external API for BeHierarchic and Default Folder. Integration of Default Folder's external API.
• Full support of Mac OS 9's Multiple Users mode. Each user has separate preferences and menus.
• Text menu titles can now be displayed in colors. Set a label on the menu's folder (or alias) and the title color will match the label's color. This only works with text menu titles, the iconic menu titles are not changed. (Thanks to Graham Scholes, who gave me that colorful idea.)
• An obscure compatibility problem with SpellCatcher and PhotoTools used together has hopefully been fixed. The same fix should improve compatibility with Japanese input method over Claris/AppleWorks 5. (Thanks to Evan Gross, SpellCatcher author, for his help.)
• Not in AliasMenu but worth mentioning here: Apple Click is now AliasMenu-savvy. Option-clicking a menu title opens the corresponding folder. Apple Click is a freeware written by Kevin Parichan, available at <http://www.bubblepop.com/appleclick/index.html>.
Version 2.1 — July 14, 1999
BeHierarchic support
• Changes in the external API for BeHierarchic. Integration of BeHierarchic's external API.
• Some cosmetic problems corrected. Notably, when a folder is the root of a submenu and it also has a keyboard shortcut, a rather unusual situation in a menu.
• The few reported bugs are corrected.
Version 2.0.3 — January 1, 1999
Maintenance release
• Insufficient spacing when using certain fonts as system font (via the "Appearance" control panel).
• Some other cosmetic errors fixed.
• First release of Japanese version, localized by Christopher Li <ChrisLi@Bridge1.com>.
• Code sync with Japanese version. All versions now run the same code.
Version 2.0.2 — October 18, 1998
Fixed all Mac OS 8.5-related problems.
• Text was truncated in some menu items.
• AliasMenu now recognizes the new icon format introduced in Mac OS 8.5.
• Aliases to specially-typed applications (APPC, APPD) are correctly displayed in the menus.
• The "underscore" prefix does not work properly with HFS+ (this problem also exists with 8.1). Some other characters have been added to force an item to the end of the menu. Instead of the "underscore", use the "tilde" ~, the vertical bar | or the left/right braces {}.
• The "autotype" feature using text clippings has been fixed. It failed in some applications in Mac OS 8.5.
More efficient and faster URL handling.
• Mac OS 8.5's URLs are recognized. Their small icon being hard to read, they are replaced in the menus by a generic URL icon. All the eight URL kinds are taken into account: http, ftp, file, mailto, nntp, afp, atlk and "generic".
• The URLs of type 'LINK' created with Internet Explorer are recognized.
• The URLs of type 'URL ' created with Netscape are recognized.
• All the above URLs are treaded the same way: When the corresponding menu item is selected, AliasMenu passes the URL directly to Internet Config. It is now the kind of the URL and the Internet Preferences that will determine the target application. The creator of the URL is ignored. An URL created by Explorer will be executed by Netscape if Netscape is selected as the preffered browser in the Internet Preferences, and vice-versa.
Several details optimized.
• The BNDL resource now has a reference for FKEY files. Thus the FKEYs that are given the AliasMenu creator code (aMn2) appear with the same icon on the Finder and in the menus.
• If an application is excluded in the control panel (or is not in the "authorized" applications list), the folder watching operated by AliasMenu is temporarily suspended as long as the application is front, to avoid any useless slowing-down.
• At its first installation, AliasMenu adds in the "Welcome" menu an item to open the AliasMenu Items folder, to make it easier for the first-time users.
Version 2.0.1 — July 14, 1998
A few minor bugs fixed, most notably the "white menu" crash. To separate visually the extra menus from the application's menus, many users like to insert a "white" menu whose name is only composed of spaces. In AliasMenu 2.0, this made the Finder crash.
As documented in the AliasMenu Q&A at <http://www.integra.fr/bw/aliasmenufaq-us.html>, the temporary solution was to use hard-spaces (option spaces); now it's not necessary anymore.
Version 2.0.1 also marks the release of the German/English version. The German translation was brilliantly made by Rainer Müller <R.M.K@online.de>.