Appetizer Changelog

What's new in Appetizer 1.4.4.148 Beta

May 4, 2010
  • Fixed bug with "Start on system startup" option when app was installed using PortableApps installer
  • Fixed bug where app was always starting on system startup even after the option had been unticked
  • Fixed bug with Appetizer closing procedure (wasn't closing at all anymore, just crashing)
  • Set default window transparency to 235 (looks nicer)
  • "Kill locking apps on shutdown" option no longer kills Appetizer and allows it to close properly
  • Added Portuguese, Slovak and Russian translations

New in Appetizer 1.4.3.103 Beta (May 4, 2010)

  • Support for web links
  • Fixed crash when saving config dialog, because no value was assigned to label position
  • Improved closing of Appetizer, which hopefully should no longer crash
  • Updated Dutch locale
  • Updated Swedish locale
  • Start on system startup feature

New in Appetizer 1.4.2.22 Beta (May 4, 2010)

  • New: Icon labels can now be displayed below or to the right of the icon.
  • Fixed minor plugin issue

New in Appetizer 1.4.1.1 Beta (May 4, 2010)

  • New: plugins can now have a Configuration dialog
  • New: many new plugin functions (possibility to change button icons, file functions, dialog functions, skin functions, new events, etc.)
  • New: Vietnamese translation (Tam Vo Le)
  • New: "Securizer" plugin to encrypt / decrypt important documents on a USB key (separate download)
  • New: option panel is now open on startup if it was open last time Appetizer was closed
  • New: support for icon labels
  • New: support for PNG icons
  • Fixed: Vista issue with special items
  • Fixed: File / Folder browse dialog now also shows hidden files and folders such as PortableApps's folders
  • Fixed: Dropping a file onto an icon should now works as expected, and launch the app with the file as a parameter
  • Updated Polish translation (MT)

New in Appetizer 1.3.2 Build 337 (May 4, 2010)

  • Greek localization
  • Turkish localization
  • Chinese (Simplified) localization + help file
  • Estonian localization + help file
  • Romanian localization
  • Help files are now in PDF format instead of CHM
  • Minor improvement and bug fixes.

New in Appetizer 1.3.1.222 (Apr 17, 2009)

  • New option to set the transparency of the window
  • Added support for "Printer and Faxes" and "Network Connections" special items
  • Fixed: Appetizer would fail to launch a document if it doesn't have an extension. The "open with" dialog box is now displayed instead.
  • Fixed: Improved support for Vista (installation and saving of settings)
  • Added hungarian localization
  • Added italian localization (Massimo Lauria)

New in Appetizer 1.2.4.637 (Dec 23, 2008)

  • Added Japanese help file (Tilt)
  • Fixed: USB hard drives were incorrectly detected as non-removable. As a result, the "Eject" button wasn't shown for these drives.

New in Appetizer 1.2.4.617 (Dec 23, 2008)

  • Updated Japanese translation
  • Updated Korean translation

New in Appetizer 1.2.3.616 (Dec 23, 2008)

  • Added Japanese translation
  • Added partial Korean translation
  • Fixed: a bug in language detection code
  • Fixed: Windows installer was not creating uninstaller entry in "Add / Remove Program" window

New in Appetizer 1.2.3.610 (Dec 23, 2008)

  • Updated Danish translation
  • Updated German translation and help file
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated Dutch translation
  • Updated French and English translations and help files.

New in Appetizer 1.2.2.606 Beta (Dec 23, 2008)

  • New: "Reveal target" plugin
  • Fixed Windows 2000 crash (missing "SetDllDirectory" function)
  • Updated German translation and help file
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated French translation and help file
  • Added Danish translation
  • Fixed: plugin manager was dispatching events to disabled plugins
  • Fixed: Appetizer could crash if two plugins were using the same global object
  • Fixed: Appetizer can crash if a plugin tries to use an object that has been deleted
  • Fixed: Shortcut Editor Dialog gives focus to "name" field on creation
  • Fixed: update detection code didn't run the first time the app was launched
  • Fixed: The option panel layout wasn't done correctly if a button was added to it while it was closed.
  • Improved: Optimzation for special item icons and folder icons
  • Improved: App now tries to detect the system locale the first time the app is
  • launched
  • Lua: Better error messages if a script fails to load or if there is an syntax error
  • Lua: Exported many new functions

New in Appetizer 1.2.1.91 Alpha (Dec 23, 2008)

  • New: Support for plugins
  • New: Option to close the applications that are locking the drive before ejection
  • New: Shortcut "Add to group" menu item (Plugin)
  • New: "Close button minimizes to System Tray"; option
  • New: Contextual help in config dialog and main window
  • New: Context menu when right-clicking on an item in TreeView dialog
  • ("Remove" and "Properties" items)
  • New: New switch: "/l" to show a log window (useful to debug plugins)
  • Improved: items in "Add special item" menu now have icons
  • Improved: Added support for wildcards in import exclusion list
  • Improved: Added white frame around application icon in tray icon to make it more visible
  • Improved: Added some default patterns to exclusion list (uninstall.exe, setup.exe, etc.)
  • Changed: Removed "Portable" from application name in PAF version
  • Changed: Replaced %VARIABLE_NAME% by $(VariableName) so that it's not confused with environment variables
  • Fixed: "Show desktop" special item is now done using a vbs script to go around the issue when .scf file association is broken

New in Appetizer 1.1.2.26 (Dec 1, 2008)

  • Fixed: Windows 2000 crash ("The ordinal 737 could not be located in the dynamic link library Shell32.dll")
  • Updated German translation
  • Added Spanish translation