Google Quick Search Box 2.0.0.1053 (Vanadium)

Important Notes

• This version of QSB is going to reset your plugin preferences and account preferences. You will have to go to the preferences panel and re-enter your account information to use any features that depend upon accounts such as PicasaWeb search, Google Docs search or Twitter.
• This version of QSB will break any third party plugins until they are upgraded to work with it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, however we are still attempting to stabilize the plugin APIs and they probably won't be set in stone until the 1.0 release.

Enhancements in this version

• HGSSimpleAccount supports authentication remediation. See -[HGSSimpleAccountEditController canGiveUserAnotherTry] and -[HGSSetUpSimpleAccountViewController canGiveUserAnotherTryOffWindow:] and the captcha implementation in GoogleAccount for an example.
• Extensions don't really know if they have an UI available, so we've added support for extensions to notify the client (QSB, in this case) of short messages to be presented to the user. This is done via kHGSUserMessageNotification. Details can be fond in HGSExtension.h and an example can be seen in TwitterMessageAction.m.
• Added QSBUserMessage.h/.m which does the user notification presentation mentioned in the previous item. A small gray status window is presented over the query window for a few seconds.
• Issue 118: The path presentation shown at the bottom of the results window for the currently selected result was being overdrawn. This has been fixed.
• Issue 34 and issue 50: The Google Bookmarks source now uses Google Accounts. An instance of Google Bookmarks for each Google account that has been set up will appear in the Searchable Items list in preferences.
• Issue 198 and issue 211: Fixed a problem in the SharedFileList search source where changing the name of or moving a recently used file would cause erroneous results to appear for the item.
• Issue 179: Fixed a off-by-one error in identifying word boundaries that caused a crash when typing multiple words in the search box.
• Issue 140: Fixed a problem where pressing down-arrow in an empty search box would show an empty result box. Recognize that there are no results to show and suppress the result window presentation.
• Issue 187: Fixed a problem where pressing right-arrow after pivoting on a result would refuse to drill in because the old completion text range was competing with the pivot.
• Issue 135: Text input now has large type as a default action
• Issue 145: Added support throughout QSB for arrays of results. All actions were overhauled to handle arrays of results. You can't use the comma operator just yet, but you can get multiple items via selections in the Finder, and choosing "cmd-G" in QSB. The interface to actions has changed considerably. Third parties will need to update their actions appropriately.
• Cleaned up naming throughout internal API. Third parties will need to update their code. HGSObject -> HGSResult is the main one, but several methods had their names changed as well.
• Added "path for file URL" command to AppleScript dictionary allowing you to get the path of a file url.
• Issue 131: Fixed up image AppleScript plugins so you can now rotate, scale and convert images.
• Issue 134: Lots of text typed into the search box no longer shifts left and right. The search box was valiantly trying to show intermittent but inappropriate text completions.
• Standardized on a new JSON framework that fixes a potential crasher if we were passed a badly formatted JSON string. It is available as a framework for plugins to link to. Thanks to Stig Brautaset for JSON.framework.
• Improved memory usage once again, cleaning up a couple of leaks and reducing startup memory usage by about 10%.
• Issue 10: QSB should now position itself correctly in the Finder. We have set all the appropriate flags, so if it isn't working, chances are it's a Finder bug.
• Issue 229: User messages can now be shown via Growl, which is the default. A Use Growl for user messages checkbox has been added to the General panel of preferences for controlling the use of Growl. A plugin can optionally add descriptive text to the user message notification. This will be shown as a second line when presented to the user.
• Fixed a problem where right-arrowing from the top-most result was not pivoting on the result.
• Issue 200: Previously, some results were always shown below-the-fold (mostly actions) regardless of how much room was available in the top results. This has been changed so that as many of the below-the-fold results as possible will be shown in the available space in the top results, respecting the user's Number of results preference. This means that more actions will be available when pivoting.
• Issue 221: Now adds "from Google Quick Search Box (Mac)" to tweets.
• Issue 238: Icon fetch operations that complete needed to be removed from the list of pending fetch operations.
• Issue 222: When the preference window is shown a validation is done on all accounts so that account status is up-to-date. Whenever a search source experiences what may be an authentication issue it has the account do an authentication so that the preferences are updated immediately.
• Issue 273: Changed sending of Twitter messages to be asynchronous.
• Issue 281: If a search source relies on an account that fails to authenticate at startup then it is still shown in the Searchable Items list but is disabled. Once the account problem is fixed the search source will be available once again.
• Issue 283: Whenever Google Bookmarks or Twitter gets a credential challenge the account is immediately authenticated and an error is reported if there is an authentication failure.
• Added a plugin API version check when starting up QSB. QSB plugins must have a 'HGSPluginAPIVersion' key in their plists with a value of '2'. We have made extensive changes to the API and didn't want non-conformant plugins to crash on launch.
• Issue 270: The search options are now properly enabled in the pop-down menu.
• Issue 268: Icons should now show up correctly for AppleScript actions. Thanks to Aaron Ecay for the patch.
• The Picasaweb search source will now suggest to the user that they may need to enable Picasa for their Google account whenever the server reports a '404 - Not found'.
• Issues 215, 245, and 249: Account setup and editing has been improved. Validation is performed for all accounts whenever the Preferences window is shown.
• Issue 260: Ligatures are now turned off across the typed/autocompleted text boundary.
• Issue 232: We now support Canadian postal codes and metric temperatures. Thanks to Christian Savard for the patch.
• Issue 292: We now support weather for UK post codes.
• Issue 127: A plugin that provides a system dictionary search source has been added to the distribution, returning defintions for words typed into QSB and direct access to definitions in the Dictionary application.
• ApplicationUI source is now on by default. You must "Enable access for assistive devices" in the "Universal Access" system preference for it to work.