You Control Release Notes

You Control 1.6.1

    Stocks

  • Fixes a problem retrieving updated information caused by the data source for stock information (Yahoo! Finance) changing how data is retrieved from their system.

You Control 1.6

    General

  • General improved compatibility with Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)
  • [Leopard] Fixed an issue that could cause the application to hang for extended periods of time when trying to set a hot key in a menu.
  • [Leopard] Corner menus now display on all desktops when using Apple Spaces
  • Fixed a bug that caused hot keys to not be removed properly when removed via the Hot Keys tab
  • New Apple Help now available
  • Updated French and German localizations
  • Assorted minor bug fixes
  • System Preferences

  • [Leopard] Fixed a bug in which System Preferences could not be viewed by category
  • Calendar

  • [Leopard] Support for the new data format used in iCal on Leopard
  • User Switching

  • [Leopard] Now works properly on Leopard
  • Network Monitor

  • [Leopard] Throughput statistics are now accurately displayed
  • Disk Monitor

  • [Leopard] Fixed an intermittent bug that could crash You Control when displaying the Disk Monitor module in the menu bar
  • Memory Monitor

  • Now properly displays the amount of memory for systems with more than 3GB of memory
  • Clock

  • [Leopard] Fixed a bug that would cause the world time zones list to appear unsorted
  • Address Book

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a crash for certain kinds of Address Book entries
  • News Reader

  • Improved the performance of drawing the menus on both Leopard and Tiger. The delay was particularly noticeable on Leopard.
  • Improved performance when displaying articles and article bodies in the menu
  • Weather

  • Improved handling of situation in which the module received bad weather data on both Tiger and Leopard. This could cause a crash or prevent the application from loading (with an "Engine Failed to Load" message)
  • iTunes

  • New Feature: Users can now create their own controller sets; please see our Creating Custom Controllers page for an overview.
  • New Feature: Added new default controller set for improved look on Leopard
  • Improved reliability of playing a track when iTunes isn't running
  • Playlists now display their tracks in the order they appear in the playlist (they had been alphabetized)
  • Fixed an issue in which empty stars displayed in the menu bar had a white background. The background should now be transparent.
  • [Leopard] Overlay now displays properly on each desktop when using Spaces
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Finder to launch when changing tracks

You Control 1.5.1

    General:

  • "Stop Engine" option changed to "Quit Engine". In the configuration application, this option has been moved to the File menu.
  • Added "Always Show Quit Engine" option to the Preferences tab of the configuration application.
  • Switching menus to Menu Bar Right should now work more reliably.
  • Fixed bug preventing the configuration application from automatically quitting when the engine is quit.
  • Assorted minor bug fixes
  • Pasteboard

  • New Feature: Added menu options for removing specific entries and for clearing the entire list.
  • Fixed a problem for some users in which pasting would some times paste the wrong item.
  • Fixed a bug in which the preview for items copied from Microsoft Word would contain extraneous html.
  • File System

  • Fixed a bug that could cause the preview of some HTML files to crash the application.
  • Calendar

  • Improved parsing of invalid events that could cause the application to crash.
  • News Reader

  • Fixed a bug in which some links were not loaded properly when chosen in the menu.
  • iTunes

  • Changed the search order when loading the user's library to be more reliable in situations in which the user moves the library to a custom location.

You Control 1.5

    General:

  • Improved compatibility with latest Leopard (10.5) seeds
  • Menu Bar Right positioning should work correctly again
  • Fixed a situation in which the hot key menu would not display in certain multi-monitor situations.
  • Minor bug fixes
  • File System:

  • New Feature - Added File Info for applications
  • New Feature - File Info now displays the file's Kind
  • New Feature - Added "Show in Finder" command
  • Fixed a bug that could cause file type and creator information to be wrong on Intel Macs
  • CPU Monitor:

  • New Feature: Added an uptime monitor in the list of CPU information
  • Address Book:

  • New Feature - Added an option for mapping addresses using Google Maps
  • News Reader:

  • Feed URLs copied from Safari are now handled correctly when adding new feeds.
  • Pasteboard:

  • Added fix for issue in which pasteboard would some times paste the incorrect entry
  • Calendar:

  • Added better error handling for situations in which calendars have events with invalid data
  • Clock:

  • Fixed issue which would cause Clock module to not load on the latest Leopard (10.5) seed
  • iTunes:

  • New Feature: Toggle Shuffle command - Added a menu item to toggle the shuffle mode on the current playlist. You can also set a hot key for this (like any other command)
  • New Feature: Ticker Duration - You can now specify for how long the ticker will display in the menu bar (including always on)
  • Improved Podcast support - Podcasts are now in their own submenu instead of in the Playlists menu
  • Improved Radio Station support - Streamed stations now display current track and overlay information for each new track (assuming the station provides the information)
  • Support for music libraries stored in custom locations
  • Revised iTunes monitoring for faster and more accurate track information
  • Better information now provided for non-local tracks (i.e. tracks from iPods, streamed Internet radio stations, or tracks shared from another computer)
  • Improved handling on non-Latin characters
  • Playing a track from a playlist will now play the track from within the playlist
  • Added Disc Number to the track information displayed
  • Fixed a bug preventing playback of albums and playlists with non-Latin characters.
  • Changed logic so the overlay and ticker will reappear when resuming the same track.
  • Fixed a bug preventing playing tracks on non-Engish versions of iTunes
  • Compatibility with changes introduced in iTunes 7.1 - 7.3
  • Added hidden preference for turning off library parsing (can be helpful for very large libraries)

You Control 1.4.2

    General:

  • Includes new version of Font module for Intel Universal compatibility

You Control 1.4.1

    General:

  • Fixed broken mail links in the about box
  • Assorted minor bug fixes
  • iTunes:

  • General iTunes 7 compatibility testing
  • Fixed Recent (Artist/Album/Track) menus so they would work with iTunes 7
  • Added album art to menu for current track
  • Improved menu layout to for track fields to make it easier to distinguish the labels from the information
  • Added Disc Number to fields displayed for tracks
  • Improved play / pause functionality to properly resume playing the current track when the user changes selections in iTunes
  • Albums and artists that start with "The" now display in their proper locations in the album and artist lists
  • Tracks for an album are now displayed in correct order when there are multiple discs in an album
  • iTunes now plays albums in the correct order when there are multiple discs in an album
  • Mail:

  • Move to Trash command works properly again
  • News Reader:

  • Fixed a potential crasher that could occur with certain formatting in article titles.
  • Stocks:

  • Fixed an issue in which data for some stocks was not being displayed

You Control 1.4

    General:

  • Universal Binary (native support for Intel Macs)
  • Key combinations listed on the hot key tab will now display properly for all international keyboard layouts
  • Fixed various issues with the About box
  • Assorted minor bug fixes
  • Calendar

  • Calendar menus now display their color properly
  • Added a new option to not show undated to dos
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the application to hang when parsing some calendars not created in iCal.
  • Weather:

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a crash in some circumstances
  • System Prefs:

  • Fixed a problem where some preference panes would not display their icons
  • News Reader:

  • Fixed a problem where certain URLs for stories would not load correctly in the browser
  • Clock:

  • When editing a custom date and time, the previous format string is now displayed
  • Fixed a bug where the Remove button would not properly remove world times from list
  • Fixed bugs related to editing world times
  • Disk Monitor:

  • Changed the functionality of the Unmount Volume command to unmount just the volume, not the entire disk
  • Fixed some improperly formatted images for the menu bar
  • Cleaned up icons
  • CPU Monitor:

  • Changed the functionality of the memory size for applications in the list to be the actual memory used, instead of a percentage.
  • iTunes:

  • Fixed bug where setting ratings from the menu bar would not work
  • Genres now display submenus broken down by artist and album
  • Sorting is now case-insensitive
  • "The" is excluded from sorts
  • Playing an album now plays the songs in track order
  • Fixed a bug where you could not get submenus if you inlined genres, artists, or albums
  • iTunes will not be launched when scrolling through the menu. Note this may result in menus not displaying album artwork if iTunes is not running.
  • Fixed bug where the overlays would not animate properly on closing (fading out would not work in some cases, for example)
  • Recents:

  • Now properly displays recent items

You Control 1.3.3

The You Control 1.3.3 update adds additional compatibility with Mac OS X Tiger (v10.4.1).

    General:

  • Addresses some error messages reported in the Console log.
  • Addresses an issue that would cause the You Control Engine to unexpectedly quit when using certain modifier keys as part of a key sequence to bring up a You Control menu.

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