Shrook v2.62
Late last week I released Shrook v2.62, which contains various bugfixes and tweaks.The most important one was to fix the freezing bug that many users were experiencing. This appears to have been caused by a new auto-tooltip feature introduced in Leopard. The idea is when you hover over an item in a table that's too long to fit the cell, a tooltip will appear showing the full text. Suddenly eing asked to draw the cell contents in a tooltip window rather than the table itself confused my code, sometimes leading to a freeze.
I've fixed the bug and have the tooltip feature working. Currently it's only for item titles, but support for showing the text of items will come later.
I've also made it so that if you hit the delete key while viewing a channel within a smart group, it'll offer you the option of unsubscribing, rather than just beeping. Within ordinary groups I've redesigned the delete dialog to be easier to use. Finally, you can hit delete on the Channel Guide to get rid of it.
Leopard got rid of brushed metal from the Shrook window background, and this release removes some of the associated chrome, in particular the border around the main panes, and the embossing effect on the status text at the bottom.
In v2.61 I made Shrook reregister with Growl more often. Not only was it too often, but it caused a weird bug in X11 apps that stole the window focus. It should only reregister very occasionally now.
Finally it fixes an address corruption bug several people reported, makes the left arrow key work properly when you're viewing a web page, and fixes some bugs with column resizing.
If you don't already have it, a download link is on the Shrook page.
-- Graham, January 28th, 2008 8:15 PM.
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Thank you! I had to resort to using Vienna, which is good. But it's not shrook!-- K, February 6th, 2008 11:17 PM.