Project Description

We just finished our work on developing the first dock-like application that can hold several applications and their different versions in just one application icon.

BrowserChooser 0.2. is a Java-based free-ware tool and was designed to integrate your multi-browser environment. Nevertheless it can handle almost every application or even a single file almost like a real dock-application e.g. YZDock!

You can run the application Out-Of-The-Box. No installation needed, but we recommend to create a seperate application folder, because BrowserChooser creates files and folder for configuration, preferences and languages.

Requirements:
- Java 5 (compiled for and recommended)
- Windows XP (compiled for and recommended, NOT tested on Vista and Windows 7)
- Mac OS X (NOT supported yet)
- Linux (Not tested yet)

Version - v0.2.15

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Features (new):
- supports Windows shortcuts reading while DnD as well as in the file chooser dialog
- title and icon for Windows taskbar added ,when wrapped with launch4j executable wrapper

Bug fixes:
- pop-up menus does disappear when lost focus (Windows)
- shortcuts will be read out automatically (Windows)
- drag & drop only for Aliases and "direct" applications (MAC OS X)

Bugs (Windows XP):
- no bugs known
Bugs (MAC OS X / Unix):
- failure while saving after creating new application in the settings dialog and removing on version
- wrong implementation to execute an application
- .icns files not supported


Version - v0.2.14

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Features (new):
- supports now drag&drop on application icons in the dock, to add a new version
- visually indicates drag&drop on application icons in the dock

Bug fixes:
- correct implementation of the "always on top" functionality
- correct implementation of the mouse event for the pop-up trigger on UNIX systems

Bugs (Windows XP):
- pop-up menus does not disappear when focus lost
- drag & drop linked files does not save the path to the program, but the link instead (not really a bug, but not desired)
Bugs (MAC OS X / Unix):
- failure while saving after creating new application in the settings dialog and removing on version
- drag & drop causes Exception while creating and scaling application image


Version - v0.2.13

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Features:
- dock-like application handling multi-version applications
- drag&drop support
- language support

Bugs (Windows XP):
- "always on top" functionality does not work
Bugs (MAC OS X / Unix):
- wrong implementation of the mouse event for the pop-up trigger
- drag & drop does not work properly

Java-Doc:
- undocumented, because not well formatted yet

NOTE: This is the first major BETA release that has been fully tested only on Windows XP SP2 with Java jre1.5.0_12. Therefore other operating systems, especially Mac OS X, are currently not tested or supported but will be in future releases. Please feel free to use the source code and compile against your system. We would like to hear your feedback.