Solipsism Gradient

Many thanks to Matt Neuburg for my favorite review line ever:

Like Superman swooping down out of the sky to save the day, here comes Klicko, brainchild of Rainer Brockerhoff…

Thanks to John Gruber for linking to Klicko; his original post about click-through (from 2003!) convinced me other people might like this.

Or maybe just other old-timers. User feedback so far is as expected: about 5% say “OMG marvelous!” and 95% say “What is this click-through you speak of?”

Found and fixed a few small problems in Klicko 1.0. Not enough to justify incrementing to 1.0.1, but the new build number is now 73 (the original 1.0 was 67). Please check (using the “Check for Updates…” menu item) to see if you need to update; sorry about that.

Klicko 1.0 is out. Details at eleven…

Klicko 1.0b8 is now up and I hope that it’ll reach 1.0 (final) with no further modifications.

I’ve tweaked the icon and user interface, and you can now choose to have it run in the Dock or with a small icon on the menubar.

Unfortunately there were too many UI inconsistencies/tricky workarounds to get it working properly with Tiger, so this is Leopard-only. Sorry about that.

Suggestions or bug reports are welcome.

Just pushed out Klicko 1.0b7 (1.0b6 was up only a few minutes).

It now doesn’t block clicks in sheets, has 4 localizations (English, Portuguese, French [by Ronald Leroux], and German [with the help of M. Uli Kusterer]), and the application list can now be of either excluded or included applications.

Please note that if you note unusual behavior, or UI slowdown, with a specific app you can exclude that app (or you can include only some app, alternatively).

The saga continues with Klicko 1.0b5.

The click-through functionality itself hasn’t changed but now the About window flips over to show a Preferences window. This window is just a list of applications explicitly excluded from the click-through suppression.

I seized the occasion to re-learn some stuff about Cocoa tables. Everything should “just work” as expected; you can select any running application from the “+” button’s popup menu, or drag applications directly into and out of the window.

I’ll probably do one last beta to fix any remaining bugs, and incorporate additional localizations. Stay tuned.

Update: forgot to say, I tested it in Tiger and everything appears to work fine there too.

Klicko 1.0b4 is just out. It’s a little smaller and, despite that, is localized into Portuguese.

I switched some stuff around so that any new localizations will add only two small text files to the app. Localizers, please tell me if you’re interested.