MacSwitch

Landvermesser ( landvermesser@felsenstein.org )

MacSwitch - Alt+Tab Replacement in Mac OS X Style!

Version 1.1.1 (2/1/2007)

Download:    

• MacSwitch v.1.0.1  ( 1212 Kb. )

• Update to the version 1.1.1 (197 Kb)

How To Install:

Download und install the package. Add the shortcut to the file MacSwitch.exe to your StartUp folder. Run it.

How To Update:

Stop the MacSwitch (right click onto main window and select "Exit"). Download the update. Open it with WinZip and extract to the MacSwitch folder (replace old files).

How To Use:

Press Alt+Tab. If you have more as one runned application you will see  (may be after short delay, see info below) the main window of application. Navigate with Alt+Tab, Shift+Alt+Tab or directly click the target icon. You can call the float menu with the list of all runned tasks any time by Shift+(Middle click) onto the screen. To exit or restart application right click the main window.

To set new label of runned program or to change the assigned icon, right click the target icon and select "Properties of Item". The PNG and ICO files are supported. The size 128x128 pixels is recommended. Too small or too large pictures will be resized to 128x128 pixels. The 96x96 and 64x64 pixels pictures will be created automatically. If you add many new PNGs with right names (name_of_executable.exe.png) into the folder Images\128 and select "Resize all" from context menu, all new pictures will be correctly resized and will be added into Images\96 and Images\64 folders.

Use additional tags <FirstPart> and <LastPart> to add the name of the opened document or current folder to the label of runned application. It is maximal 16 characters long.

The MacSwitch shows the main window with short delay - it make two screenshots to full EMULATION of alpha-blending and transparency. You can quick switch between two last applications by quick press and release Alt+Tab without waiting of main window. Use Ctrl+Tab to switch runned progs without MacSwitch GUI.

See the content of MacSwitch.ini to additional start options (set another label font, set start icon size and so on).

Added in version 1.1:

The MacSwitch was new recoded and shows Simply GUI without any delay and the delay by Fine GUI is much shorter. Find new commands in context menu, such as "Simply GUI", "Transparency" and "Use Ctrl+Tab"

Some notes:

If you don't see the main application window or icons:

• Try to download and copy into main folder the free Microsoft GDI+, To download the DLL, search for the following phrase at www.microsoft.com: gdi redistributable. It is not tested.

• Be sure that "Write Combining" in your Screen Options is ON.

• Be sure that no national letters (chinese or russian) are in the path to program folder.