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Hi all, I need a new battery for my PowerBook… Short background (feel free to skip): I built two batteries for my PowerBook 170 back in 2017 (briefly documented in this thread here and here) that I've been using regularly since then. However, all of a sudden at the end of 2020, they both...

That’s great. Take your time! (But not too long since I had to revert back to beta 4 because of the crashes and now miss the speed of beta 5 :D) By the way, after some further testing I noticed that some windows no longer are affected. Seems to be happening mostly to interface windows (such as...

Not that the display itself updates at 60 fps but guess the change lined up well with the frames :)

Palettes actually haven't worked in any of the betas. I intentionally didn't comment on that, mainly since I learned, after doing some research into palette windows for my own projects, that they are not part of the system software but basically custom hacks with a range of different...

I realize now after I've reviewed the thread that this actually is one of the changes you described you added to reduce the clutter. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of this though. I find it makes the animation look inconsistent at times. I would prefer to space out / reduce the total number of rects...

Some feedback on the new beta after two days of testing (numbered for easier reference :) ): Visual stuff: #1 Something has changed in the new algorithm that makes some lines get drawn in white and some in black when blending with the background pattern. #2 Upon closer inspection, there...

Oh wow, I can't believe you actually rewrote the zoom rect algorithm in assembly! 😮😮 That's incredible. Really impressed! And oh what a difference it makes 🤩 It such a drastic change, it actually feels odd to use now that I'm so used to the slower speed :) Thanks so much for this update! It's...

Hello! Checking in here for the first time in a while :) Great to see all the activity here! I've been using beta 4 continuously since last year, and it's quickly become as natural and pleasant to use as the OS X original. I've been using it daily (just checked, and my PowerBook has seen an...

@Crutch, soon after I began experimenting with some new mockups for the animation, it struck me again that much of the clutter comes from the fact that we’re displaying five rectangles at the same time. Before we implement any of the other ideas, could we just try 12 rectangles and 3 of them...

Wonderful! Isn’t it already instant though? :) I thought that was accomplished already from the start. But if it can be even more instant I’m all for it :) During the past weeks I’ve left the more conscious testing and evaluation and returned to using the computer like I normally do, and I...

Great minds think alike, like you said ;):) I also had the idea to change the animation depending on the number of windows open, but thought it'd be good to try out combining the windows first.

I was just about to post a comment about the latest version, so I'll begin with that :) I've been using beta 4 for a couple of days now, and it works great! With a bit of touch up on the animation it feels like we're close to a final version. I can report that not only do opening a folder...

Haha, having fun here I see (y)😄:ROFLMAO: Moving the actual windows is pretty much out of the question, I'd say. Then we're not in the millisecond range anymore, at least not on 68k processors :D Like I mentioned in the beginning of the thread, I tried an extension that enables live dragging of...

By the way, if you see any way at all to realize the last option in my post, I think that would be the best way to do it.

Great! I thought of that option too, but picked the ones above instead since I wasn’t sure if new, non-rectangular shapes would make sense. But if you’re already on the way of implementing it, let’s try it out! By the way, how did you implement the sections? I played around a bit with...

During the past dew days, I've done some further analysis of the animation, and tried thinking about and evaluate possible optimizations/simplifications. Some observations: When the paths of two nearby windows/rects intersect, they create an additional shape in between them, creating the...

I think I might have dismissed your addition too quickly (may have been because of those giant letters 😉😊) It’s actually a very nice usability feature, making sure you enter the keys you intended. And also cool in itself – makes you want to play with it a for a while before setting the shortcut...

Fantastic! Your updates are coming faster than I can keep up with at the moment :) Such amazing work on your part this far @Crutch. Already in its current form, it's incredibly useful. While the majority of the folks here probably tinker with their vintage Macs every now and then, like I...

Haha 😄

That makes sense. I didn't try that when I tested it, but manually moving the window so that the grow box is partially off the screen results in it getting corrupted when it's moved back, both in the Finder and in apps. This, of course, requires you to grab the window by the very edge so it's...