Proxi Blog

link: Proxi v1.2.1

In this maintenance release:

• Fixed a problem with Copy/Move task not respecting the “Replace existing” setting.
• Fixed a problem displaying hotkey and key press descriptions correctly on Intel machines using a non US keyboard layout.
• Fixed a crash that occurs when upgrading Proxi from a PowerPC machine to an Intel machine.
• Assorted minor corrections.

Taken directly from the wiki entry:

Who loves Apple’s brushed metal look, raise your hand? OK there are a couple, but there are some others… not so much.

When creating Proxi, we decided to go with the standard brushed metal look with the idea that if Apple changed it we, as we used the standard brushed metal window, would get any changes that Apple made to this look “for free”. There are rumors of such a change underway in Leopard, but who knows. We might have also gone with the new Unified (hardly) look, but it requires the addition of a toolbar at the top of the window (see Mail for an example). We looked at this early on and it looked funny. So there it is, nothing can be done about this right?

Rejoice brushed metal haters, for there is a hidden preference in Proxi to switch to, what I like to call, the Plastic look.

To enable the Plastic look, you can open the Terminal enter the following and relaunch Proxi:

defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi guiStyle 1

To switch back to Brushed Metal, enter this in the Terminal and relaunch Proxi:

defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi guiStyle 0

Or check out the Style Switcher blueprint.

So why didn’t we build this into the Preferences? It may one day find it’s way in there, but we’re anxious to see what direction Apple heads with Leopard. Perhaps they’ll officially change to some other look and we won’t have to worry about such things.

Is there perhaps another guiStyle you ask? Well yes, the guiStyle can be set to 2 for extreme silliness. You’ll also need to set patternPath to a valid image file. In other words:

defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi guiStyle 2
defaults write com.griffintechnology.Proxi patternPath "/A/Path/To/A/Valid/Image"

What the window looks like depends on what sort of pattern you choose, but here’s an example:

Have fun.

link: Proxi v1.2

As promised, Proxi version 1.2 is released today.

See the wiki (or prior post) for additional information.

A new beta of Proxi in the works. If you’re updating Proxi using from the beta feed you may have already seen it, if not here’s what you can expect in the new release:

• Added Apple Remote trigger.
• Added Spotlight task.
• Added Copy / Move Files task.
• Added Sleep Monitor trigger.
• Added support for enclosures and images to RSS Monitor trigger:
  • Added values: ItemEnclosure (url), ItemImage (image), ItemThumbnail (image)
• Fixed iTunes Monitor trigger generating a false trigger when changing the track rating.
• Changed Folder Monitor trigger so that the “filepath” variable contains the full path instead of using ~/.
• Added ratings to iTunes Control task.
• Added value to Folder Monitor: Icon (image).
• Added AppleScript syntax highlighting.
• Cleaned up AppleScript error reporting.
• Hotkeys now completely disable when disabled.
• Almost any key combination can now be used as a hotkey including function keys and ⌘-W.
• Added Running Apps extra value: A comma separated list of all running applications.
• Allow all text fields access to Values.
• Fixed search field colliding with value window button at small widths.

We’ll give this a few days to ferment and if all goes well expect to see a general release Monday.