Having finally started using a Mac again in earnest for the first time since I
left Apple three-and-a-half years ago, one of the things I really missed was
FinderPop.
So I began a spare-time project to port it to Carbon (it would probably be
more correct to say re-write it for Carbon.)
It doesn't have everything in the original, but it's got the bits I use
most, and Control-Free-Popup and some other features will be added soon.
FinderPop 2.0 will require a PowerPC running OS X 10.3 or above.
It's being beta-tested at the moment, and hopefully version 2.0
of FinderPop will be released sometime next month assuming the testers
find no urgent issues and I get the chance to write some help for it.
No doubt version 2.0 will be quickly followed by 2.0.1 and
2.0.2 if past form is anything to go by :-)
Update 06-Nov-2005I'm still in the process of moving to Barcelona, but
I've just spent a week travelling with work (Geneva, nice city btw) and am
only now getting myself organised here in Barcelona. Alas the Mac Mini is
still keyboardless, displayless, and mouseless. Hopefully this coming week
will see me power the thing on for the first time in nearly a month!
Some known problems with 1.9.9b4:
Desktop submenu modification date not checked when clicking in
unused menubar area (and so could display out-of-date menu.)
Workaround: control-click the desktop.
Incompatibility with FruitMenu's "Contextual Menus" facility. Turning
that off seems to solve the problem.
Help doesn't work. Wonder why, as it seemed to work on my Mac.
Ah yes, the standard cry of developers everywhere :-)
If you'd like to beta-test FinderPop, the latest beta version is
available here (1.9.9 beta 4) (zip, 144K, dated Monday 10 October.)
Let me know if you have problems (other than those mentioned above , that is ;-)
The old FinderPop page is here.
FinderPop 1.9.2 for OS 8/9 is available there.
last updated by turly Sunday 6 November 2005.
