Konfabulator Updated With Konsposé Enhancements

by , 5:00 PM EDT, July 27th, 2004

Arlo Rose and Perry Clarke have released a maintenance update for Konfabulator, bringing it to version 1.7.1. Konfabulator is a JavaScript engine designed for creating desktop Widgets. The update features Konsposé enhancements and improved performance. According to Arlo Rose and Perry Clarke:

Want to configure Konsposé's hot key? Want to change Konsposé's background? Want to make your Widgets only show up in Konsposé?

Not a problem!

Konfabulator 1.7.1 allows you to do all those, and includes fixes for lots of user reported bugs and issues.

Some of what's new and fixed in this release:

Added preference panel to gear menu with options for setting the Konsposé key and whether to use a simpler Konsposé for slower machines

Fixed painting glitch when a <text> object that overlaps a rotated image is updated

Fixed scrolling <text> objects that display a lot of text

Greatly improved handling of explicitly labelled encodings of data loaded with URL.fetch() (see Release Notes)

Fixed long-standing "transparent background pops through" bug with <textarea> objects

Fixed weird focus behavior with <textarea> in opacity tracking mode

Added optionValue preference attribute (see Release Notes)

Fixed several problems with convertUNIXPathToHFS()

Widget preferences windows now display a smaller version of themselves if there are many preferences on a small screen

Added Finnish translation

Fixed problem with encoding of extended characters in AppleScripts

Implemented font fallbacks (see Release Notes)

You can find more information about the Konfabulator update at the Konfabulator Home Page. Konfabulator is available as freeware.

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