The preferences dialog shows the version number, for easy reference.
Any menu item you select will now flash. Previously items with submenus did not flash.
• Bugs fixed:
It was possible for a submenu selection to be ignored if you quickly moved the cursor up into the menu bar after making the selection.
The recent items feature was causing spurious “Please insert disk” alerts. If this happened to you, you probably didn’t realize it was OtherMenu’s fault.
Another programmer pointed out that my patches to MountVol and UnmountVol were not preserving register A0, and thus might conflict with other extensions that patch the same traps.
Under unusual circumstances, the recent items feature could cause unexpected AppleShare dialogs.
New in 1.6
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• Enhancements:
Instead of one folder for recent items, you can now have recent applications, recent documents, and recent folders in three separate folders. If OtherMenu fails to find the OtherMenu Folder, so that it creates a new OtherMenu Folder, it will also create these three subfolders.
OtherMenu is more thorough about recording recent items. In particular, files opened by double-clicking in the Finder, or by Super Boomerang’s direct-open feature, will appear as recent documents. When you open a file using a directory dialog, the folder containing that file will be added to the recent folders folder.
No longer must you type folder names or path names in the preferences dialog. Now the volume items folder and the three recent item folders are specified using “Set Folder” buttons, each of which displays a directory selection dialog. Furthermore, these folders are now recorded using aliases, so you should be able to rename them without making OtherMenu lose track of them.
The last item in the main menu is now “OtherMenu”, and has a submenu containing “Show Manual”, “Preferences”, and “Memory Usage”. The former externals for Preferences and Memory Usage are now obsolete.
It is possible to tell OtherMenu to open externals using AppleScript.
OtherMenu can now launch background-only applications of type ‘appe’, such as OtherMenu AE Helper and KQ AppleEvents.
• Bugs fixed:
If you had “Maintain volume items” turned on but the options to delete volume items for unmounted volume items turned off, then volume items accumulated until you had 10 of them for each actual volume.
MFS (single-sided) diskettes caused problems in the volume items feature.
Under certain circumstances, clicking on the menu bar within QuickAlias or QuickTrash just caused a beep, making it impossible to use these externals. (An example of such circumstances was the “Configure StorageSets” window in Retrospect.)
Icon highlighting in “Put Away” was not correct.
Text files were being opened using the Finder even if the creating application was already open.
A change in memory usage when creating alias files fixed a conflict with THINK Debugger for at least one user.
Under Arabic and Hebrew versions of the system software, you could not display both English and non-English file names readably in the menu at the same time.
Apple DocViewer crashed when printing to a PostScript file. This was actually a DocViewer bug, but I worked around it.
If some extension brought up a dialog during the startup process, OtherMenu tried to do its volume scanning too early, causing a crash.
The Copy File external displayed the file size and disk space incorrectly under some non-U.S. systems.
Date/Time showed dimmed lines in the submenu if you chose a prefix beginning with a hyphen.
Desktop Info allowed icons to be selected, for no purpose.
New in 1.5.2
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• Bugs fixed:
A bug that caused a crash when switching to the fonts section of the preferences dialog.
A bug that sometimes (but not on my Mac) caused a crash when saving preferences.
New in 1.5.1
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• Bugs fixed:
A bug that could sometimes cause a crash when opening or closing the preferences dialog.
New in 1.5
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• Enhancements:
Added the ability to run a KeyQuencer macro file.
The icon-finding code (used to make aliases and by the File Info, Put Away, and Volume Info externals) has been improved to handle the desktop files on diskettes. Do not use your old versions of these externals with the new OtherMenu, it will probably crash!
The submenu disappearance delay is back. I guess it does do something. Note: if you have turned on the submenu appearance delay, then the disappearance delay will probably be set to an inappropriate value, like 0. I suggest you set it to something like 100.
Updated the Clip Info external to count words and lines if there is text on the clipboard.
When OtherMenu creates an OtherMenu Folder, it now gives a custom icon to the folder. Also, it creates a special alias to itself, called “Open OtherMenu Folder”. This alias is a little nicer than the external that it replaces, because it can be used inside a directory dialog.
The little arrow controls in the preferences panel now accelerate when you keep the mouse pressed on them.
Added a new external that opens the preferences dialog. You can still use the old way of shift-selecting “About OtherMenu...”, this is just an alternative.
Now when you select an alias in QuickAlias, the new alias points to the target of the selected alias, rather than pointing to the selected alias. Granted this is not consistent with QuickTrash, in which selecting an alias trashes the alias rather than its target. But I think this way is likely to do what you want more often.
The Recent Items folders now sees all applications (except the Finder and background-only applications) whether or not you launched them with OtherMenu.
In Date/Time, you can now specify prefix strings as well as suffix strings.
I have changed the volume alias mechanism so that if you have two volumes of the same name, they will each get an alias in the menu. (But if you have two volumes with the same name and the same creation date, OtherMenu will still get confused.)
Copy File uses more bullet-proof code developed by Apple. In particular it should be more efficient when copying from a remote server to elsewhere on the server.
In external names, I now use three periods instead of an ellipsis character. This looks better under KanjiTalk, and looks the same under most other circumstances.
• Bugs fixed:
Running AppleScript files crashed under some circumstances.
Make Alias As warned you that you would not be able to save changes if you selected a file on a locked disk.
Some hard disk aliases were created with the wrong file type.
Using the option key to add a folder to the Recent Items folder without opening it sometimes caused a bogus error message.
Put Away was sometimes wrong about whether a disk was ejectable.
The Temporary Items folder showed up on the menu, even that folder is invisible in the Finder and in directory dialogs.
When you had ejected (but not unmounted) diskettes, OtherMenu sometimes caused unnecessary “Please insert <disk>” alerts.
New in 1.4.1
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• Can now execute compiled AppleScript files.
• Fixed a minor conflict with Virex. Previously, a certain combination of Virex settings caused OtherMenu to fail to put new volumes in the menu.
• Fixed a bug in which the volume name in a directory dialog failed to change if you used OtherMenu to switch to a folder on a different volume.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from choosing a font whose name had more than 31 characters.
• Made it possible (not to say easy) to run OtherMenu externals using QuicKeys 3.0.
• Updated Paste Clips external to allow clips up to 1K.
• Patched for compatibility with “SimpleText Color Menu”.
New in 1.4
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• Settings are now stored in an OtherMenu Preferences file.
• Options to set the text style of menu items according to whether they are folders, aliases, or other files.
• Provided some “fat patches” so that OtherMenu will not slow down PowerMacs.
• New QuickAlias external, for creation of multiple aliases in one folder without use of directory dialogs.
• New QuickTrash external, for trashing multiple files or folders.
• New Quote external, for BBS quoting or hard-wrapping of text on the clipboard.
• File Info external now edits application memory sizes.
• Modified online documentation reader to save text styles when you click “Save as TeachText”, since TeachText is being replaced by SimpleText.
