Year of the Code Monkey

The next version of CoLT is under development, and more importantly, nearly complete. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, below is a screenshot of what I’ve put most of my effort into:

As you can see, CoLT 2.3 will allow users to have as many custom formats for the “Copy Both Link Text and Location” action. This should make many people happy, based on the number of requests I’ve gotten for this feature. One other improvement is the ability to have menu separators in the “Copy Both” popup menu. That should make things a little nicer on an organizational level.

This new system for custom formats also provides one other benefit. When only one custom format is available, I now show a single menu item in the context menu, rather than the standard sub-menu. A number of people apparently only use one custom format choice today, and they dislike the fact that the one item lives in a sub-menu (they would rather it live one level up). CoLT 2.3 will bring this wanted feature to reality.

There are a few things I still need to polish up before I send it to the translators to be translated (the final step before a release). First, I need to figure out how (or even if) the old custom format data will be migrated to this new system. Second, there is a strange XUL bug lurking in the listbox element that I’m using. When no child elements appear in the box initially, and a new child is added, the box is resized vertically, subsequently pushing the OK and Cancel buttons in the dialog box out of view. This makes those buttons inaccessible, which is clearly a bad thing. Granted, this is an edge case, but it needs to be handled somehow.

Stay tuned for further updates on this new version. I’m excited about this release, as it should please a number of people who have been patiently waiting for these new features.

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