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Welcome
to the SearchBar version history.
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When did we introduce what features ?
For the most up to date History of SearchBar please take a look
at the ReadMe File in SearchBar (SearchBar Menu: View Read Me...). |
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v1.3: (April 2nd 2003):
• Added
german localization (David Kiltz)
• Rewrote entirely the Preferences panel, it now looks
like a real Mac OS X application's preferences panel
• Added the ability to add separators to the the engines
menu
• Added the ability to sort the engines by name, and
by drag and drop
• Added frtracker.com (http://www.frtracker.com)
• Added dogpile.com (http://www.macplus.net)
• Added WQXR Grove Music (http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html)
• Added dogpile.com (http://www.dogpile.com)
• Added osxfacile.com (http://www.osxfacile.com)
• Added frtracker.com (http://www.frtracker.com)
• Added chezmarc.com (http://www.chezmarc.com)
• You can now have neither the icon in the menu bar
nor the icon in the dock (beware though, you really should
set a HotKey first, or it's going to be hard to get SearchBar
back to the foreground if you close the window)
• Fixed bug that caused the incorrect window to reappear
when relaunching SearchBar (vertical/horizontal big/small)
• Fixed bug that caused the position of the horizontal
SearchBar window to be used in place of the vertical's
Note: there is more to come to customize the engines menu,
just hold on! I really wanted to get a new version quickly
with this updated preferences panel, that's why there is still
some work on my to do list. I say 'some' but there is a lot
of work left actually (see the To Do section for more info
on what's next).
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- v1.2: (Wednesday February 26th 2003) this
is a very fast release of SearchBar with a limited feature set:
• Added background only mode for SearchBar, (please refer
to the manual for more details) as well as an icon in the Menu
Bar
• Fixed a bug in the french localization (the Dock Menu
was not working)
• Fixed a mistake in the read me (the 1.1 version was
marked as released on friday the 24th instead of monday the
24th)
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- v1.1: (Monday February 24th 2003) This release
solves a number of issues including:
• The manual now contains something (almost) interesting
• Added Northern Light (http://www.northernlight.com)
• Fixed a problem with Mac OS X 10.1.x: when hiding SearchBar
in the background (Specify background opacity), under 10.2,
you will be able to click 'through' the SearchBar window when
the opacity is set below 5%, but under 10.1.x you can never
click 'through' the SearchBar window, fixed this by closing
the SearchBar window if the background opacity is set below
3%.
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- v1.1b5: (Thursday February 13th 2003) This
release solves a number of issues including:
• Now pipe (|) is encoded properly, a lot other characters
are now also encoded properly
• Fixed a minor issue with some xml based plugins (the
ones with no options defined)
• Added Merriam Webster OnLine (http://www.m-w.com)
• Added Dir.com (french search site) (http://www.dir.com)
• Rewrote the Apple Developer Documentation engine, Apple
had modified some of the fields (http://www.apple.com/developer)
• Added basic Apple Help system (No content yet)
• Converted several search engines to the new xml based
format
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- v1.1b4: (january 1st 2003) This release solves
a number of issues including:
• Now the "Hide after search" preference is correctly
saved and used
• You can now have aliases or links in the path of a plugin
• Having multiple instances of one plugin does not crash
SearchBar anymore, it will just keep the first one (order of
preference is: 1) Inside the app bundle 2) In ~/Library/Application
Support/SearchBar/PlugIns 3) In /Library/Application Support/SearchBar/PlugIns
4) In /Network/Library/Application Support/SearchBar/PlugIns)
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- v1.1b3: (december 16th 2002) This release
solves a number of issues including:
• The 'Engines' preferences are now usable (the ordering
of the different engines was wrong, which rendered the table
unsuable)
• When you modify the Updates preferences, changes are
taken into account immediately
• Updated and re-enabled the french localization |
- v1.1b2: (december 13th 2002)
Issues (will be resolved/implemented soon):
• German localization (David Kiltz) coming soon
• French localization disabled because it needs to be
updated
• In the preferences panel, none of the 'SearchBar Menus'
options are functional
• There are some issues with the ordering of the different
engines in the preferences
• There are some issues with the apple plugin (it doesn't
work with some of the options)
New:
• Now when the SearchBar palette is closed and the icon
in the Dock is clicked, the palette will reopen
• Now when the SearchBar palette is closed and the icon
in the Dock is clicked, the palette will reopen
• Now the Small and the Big SearchBar can have two different
positions (each is saved independently)
• Now the Small and the Big SearchBar can have two different
positions (each is saved independently)
• Now you can choose to display the flags in the SearchBar
palette
• Added completion in the text field (Jaguar only)
• Toggle the engines and options from the keyboard (see
the Window menu)
• Added support for multiple languages per search engines
• Added Alta Vista,
All The Web, Yahoo!,
MacNN, Barnes
And Nobles, MetaCrawler
• Updated Google (and others) for multiple countries/languages
support
• XML based (Property List) Plugins are here (documentation
forthcoming)
• Fixed bug which prevented SearchBar from running under
Mac OS X 10.1.x
• The Engines table in the preferences now scrolls correctly
when you move an engine up or down in the list
• Fixed spelling of Dictionary (was Dicitonary) in the
Dictionary.com plugin
• Fixed spelling of New York (was NewYork) in the NYTimes.com
plugin
• Fixed date of release and updated the english read me
• Fixed date of release and updated the french read me |
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- v1.0.1: (october 29th 2002)
• Fixed bug which prevented SearchBar from running under
Mac OS X 10.1.x
• The Engines table in the preferences now scrolls correctly
when you move an engine up or down in the list
• Fixed spelling of Dictionary (was Dicitonary) in the
Dictionary.com plugin
• Fixed spelling of New York (was NewYork) in the NYTimes.com
plugin
• Fixed date of release and updated the english read
me
• Fixed date of release and updated the french read
me
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- v1.0: (october 24th 2002)
• Rewrote the About window to include usage statistics
and plug-ins information, which will allow Plug-In developers
to have their own credits in SearchBar
• Added check for update, using PowerUpdate: http://www.powerupdate.com
by Zero G Software, Inc. There is a new tab in the Preferences
window to activate and configure PowerUpdate in SearchBar
• Updated the MacBidouille engine to point to MacBidouille.com
and not HardMac.com
• Updated the Google engine to search the new 'news' section
• Removed the Read Me from the About box, and moved it
to its own window
• Added a vertical version of the SearchBar (big and small)
• Created a plugin architecture
• Added key shortcut for the preferences menu statistics
• Updated the Preferences window to be able to hide completely
the SearchBar window in the Background
• Added search engines:
Courrier International (french) (http://www.courrierinternational.com)
Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com)
Thesaurus.com (http://www.thesaurus.com)
Yahoo! Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com)
Yahoo! Yellow Pages (http://yp.yahoo.com)
eBay (http://www.eBay.com)
AllMusic.com (http://www.AllMusic.com)
Google.fr (french) (http://www.google.fr)
• Bug fixes:
SearchBar now encodes quotes, and most punctuation marks correctly
in a search |
- v0.4: (August 29th 2002)
• SearchBar now has an icon! Special thanks to Mike!
• New search engines in v0.4:
MacBidouille (french) (http://www.MacBidouille.com)
Le Monde (french news paper) (http://www.LeMonde.fr)
CNN (http://www.cnn.com)
New York Times (http://www.NYTimes.com)
OpenGL.org (http://www.OpenGL.org)
Internet Movie DataBase (http://www.imdb.com)
Internet CD DataBase (http://www.cddb.com)
• SearchBar should now start faster as some things are
loaded in a more 'lazy' fashion (only when needed)
• added configurable HotKey (Thanks to Pierre-Olivier
Latour for the sample)
• added configuration panel in the Preferences window
to allow you to select which engines to enable or disable,
and also to select what key equivalent to assign to each search
engine. You can also reorder the different search engines.
• made the 'small bar' even smaller by removing the
search button, so now you can just press enter
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- v0.3: Based on your feedback I added the
following:
• updated the feedback email address in this document,
with the new SearchBar email: searchbar@pommsoft.com
• you can now close the SearchBar window, in which case
it will reappear when you bring SearchBar back to the foreground
or when you select the SearchBar item in the Window Menu (cmd+B)
• added support for a 'Background' opacity (the opacity
of the Searchbar window when the application is in the background)
• rewrote the about box to be bigger because I wand to
display the read me in there
• added support for a 'small' SearchBar window: click
in the maximize button at the top of the window to switch from
one window size to the other
• added Mamasam's
cocoa-dev list archive, SlashDot.org,
MacSlash.com,
MacInTouch.com,
and MacGeneration.com
search
• french localization |
- v0.2: First public release:
• polished SearchBar a little bit
• added this read me
• added MacUpdate,
Versiontracker
and Apple
Developer Connection search.
• added an option to hide SearchBar after you hit the
search button
• SearchBar now saves the last 10 searches. |
- v0.1: Original version written the same day
(or should I say night) I had the original idea, was released
only to a couple of friends and co-workers. Had just Google
search. |
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