Version 1.0.7 - Mar 14, 2010
- Add a preference to specify the icon group shown when the window opens
- Reduced the length of the hot spot edges to make a larger gap between them and Expose's hot corners. This makes it less likely to trigger Bevy accidentally when trying to use Expose's hot corners.
- Fixed a bug that caused some icons to appear as a question mark "?" when "Display As" was set to single group and you viewed "Excluded" apps
- Bevy now weeds-out invisible characters from the name and serial number fields that inadvertently get inserted during activation
- Fixed a coordinate bug that caused about a dozen dead pixels under the cursor along the left edge of the left-most icons
Version 1.0.6 - Oct 12, 2009
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Fixed "Spaces is enabled" dialog so that it no longer appears when Bevy is correctly assigned to "every space"
Version 1.0.5 - Oct 9, 2009
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Recompiled the OpenFeedback framework because it was not loading on PPC machines
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Corrected the encoding of a text file containing the hot keys list which was preventing the preferences from opening
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: "Show dock icon and menu bar" preference now works. When running under 10.4, the application must have write permissions so that the preference can be changed. If your user is an administrator, this should not be an issue. But if you do not have write privileges for the folder that the application is contained in, the preference will not be able to be set and the application will remain faceless.
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: The welcome window now shows first page at proper size when opened
- Added cursor hot spots as an additional trigger method. You can now use a selected corner or edge to trigger Bevy with the mouse like you can trigger Expos and Dashboard.
- With addition of cursor hot spots, the "Hot Key" preference tab has been renamed to "Triggers," and some preferences from the "General" tab have been moved to "Triggers" to group these features together
- Added a feature to automatically exclude applications with names containing certain strings, such as "firmware," "install," "daemon," "readme" and "remove ". Currently this is a menu item in the "Bevy" menu.
- Added "." as a file name separator to catch the following letter as a significant letter in file names like "Last.fm"
- Sped up the rescanning process, so adding search folders and rearranging the list should be faster
- Added a quit button to the preferences sheet when Bevy has no menu bar or menu bar icon visible
Version 1.0.4 - July 19, 2009
- Fixed a crash that could occur when the foreground application changed, under specific circumstances. One unique case where this could occur was when invoking Time Machine from within Mail.
Version 1.0.3 - July 15, 2009
- Fixed a layout bug that could display one less app than was actually running when viewing the "Running" group
- Changed the position of the preferences sheet to open just below title bar
- The top margin of the window couldn't be used to drag the window when the preferences sheet was open. This has been fixed.
- Minor fixes to the search folders table in the preferences to prevent sorting and editing (which didn't actually sort anyway)
- Added notes to user guide about using Bevy with Spaces
- Removed hard-coded path for ~/Library/Application Support/ folder which might have created this folder on some non-English system localizations. If you have a non-English localization and your Application Support folder does have a different name, Bevy 1.0.3 will read its files once from the old location then write them to the correct system location.
Version 1.0.2 - June 26, 2009
- You can now click on the menu bar icon to toggle the visibility of the main window. Click once to show the window, click again to hide it. To open its menu, click-and-hold or right-click (control-click) on the menu bar icon.
- The Display preferences tab has been split into two separate Layout and Color tabs
- Added preferences for the color, stroke and fill for the running application icon marker
- Added preferences for icon padding and spacing. Currently, these fixed pixel values seem to work well because more proportional space is needed at small icon sizes than at larger sizes.
- Removed a debug statement that was printing irrelevant information to the console
- If the option key key was down when you launched an application from Bevy, the window would still show the "Total" group when you next opened the Bevy window. This has been fixed.
- The unzipped application file size is now smaller. A build phase script was fixed that was redundantly compressing aliases/links, resulting in multiple copies of some files in the application bundle.
- Reduced Bevy's memory footprint by discarding unnecessary sizes of application icon variants. Now only 128px icons are retained for each application.
- Bevy now only displays a quit confirmation dialog when the user explicitly chooses to quit when no Dock icon, no menu bar and no menu bar icon are showing. Previously, the dialog would show any time just the menu bar and Dock icon were hidden, which could hang the system restart or shut down until you confirmed the quit.
- Added Rescan All Apps to the main menu and menu bar icon menu.
- If Bevy is not the frontmost app, its window will now automatically hide when it has finished launching so that you no longer have to close it manually
- If Automatically check for updates is checked in the preferences, Bevy will now also quietly check for updates when launched
- Added warnings when preferences are set such that mouse and keyboard access are limited
- Fixed a drawing bug under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Version 1.0.1 - June 8, 2009
- Added a preference to run Bevy in faceless mode where the its menu bar and dock icon are hidden and it does not appear in the system application switcher. In this mode, the only access to Bevy is with the hot key and optionally the menu bar icon if shown.
- The menu bar icon now contains all important menu items for use when Bevy is running in faceless mode and not showing its menu bar. It also shows scanning progress like the dock icon.
- Added a preferences button to the main window for access when Bevy is running in faceless mode and without a menu bar icon
- Changed Bevy's deactivation behavior so the re-open event no longer gets sent to the previous application. This will prevent untitled and default windows appearing when Bevy switches you back to the previous application.
- When showing running apps, the Bevy window now favors the width of screen rather than the aspect ratio of the screen, so it behaves more like the built-in system switcher which grows horizontally. Because Bevy will still wrap the icons to two or more rows if necessary to keep the icon size as large as possible, you can control when the wrapping occurs by adjusting the max icon size in the prefs. The smaller the icon size, the more apps before it wraps.
- Fixed the button bar so that it truncates appropriately when the window shrinks in width
- Fixed a math rounding error that caused the button bar to look a little blurry
- You can now use the escape key or command-w to close the window (unless a sheet is open)
- Altered the show window code slightly so that if the window has been moved and then another app has been brought to the front, choosing show/hide window or clicking on the dock icon will activate Bevy and bring the window to the front instead of hiding it as it did before. So instead of hiding an already obscured window, it will bring it to the front and fix what appears to be the show window command not working.
- Added a timer to the main window to hide the window after 30 seconds if it is moved and you then switch to another app and leave Bevy's window in the background
- When the preferences window was open and you made certain changes, the main window would switch to show included apps, but it shouldnt have. This has been fixed.
- Bevy will now resize its window when screen changes occur, such as a change in display resolution or the Dock being moved or hidden
- Changed the icon highlight color (when you click on an icon) to be a contrasting black or white color instead of white only. Also changed the icon highlight rectangle to be filled instead of stroked.
Version 1.0.0 - May 26, 2009