X-Assist 0.7 review

X-Assist adds Mac OS 9 behaviors to Mac OS X like the Application Switcher Menu, Recent Applications Menu with no limit, the ability to add personal hierarchies of items in an OS 9-like "apple" menu, an extensible "Control Strip" like plugin architecture, similar window behavior; when you switch applications by clicking in a window, all windows for that application are shown.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 291K Developer: Peter Li Price: $0.00 Updated: 23 Mar 2006

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X-Assist adds Mac OS 9 behaviors to Mac OS X like the Application Switcher Menu, Recent Applications Menu with no limit, the ability to add personal hierarchies of items in an OS 9-like "apple" menu, an extensible "Control Strip" like plugin architecture, similar window behavior; when you switch applications by clicking in a window, all windows for that application are shown. This behavior has changed in OS X and can be a bit annoying.

Here are some key features of "XAssist":
Application Switcher Menu (top right corner of screen)
X-Assist has a similar implementation.
More than a 5 item "Recent Applications" menu.
X-Assist has no "limit".
The ability to add personal hierarchies of items in an OS9-like "apple" menu.
X-Assist allows users to add any hierarchy into a "Shortcuts" submenu.
An extensible "Control Strip" like plugin architecture.
X-Assist supports Objective-C (NSBundle) plugins.
They are easy to write, and examples "SetVolume" and "MP3 Player" plugins are provided in this distribution.
OS 9 window behavior - when you switch applications by clicking in a window, all windows for that application are shown. This behavior has changed in OSX and can be a bit annoying.
X-Assist brings back the OS9 windowing functionality and also allows you to toggle between modes.
Easy access to System Preferences (Control Panels).

What's New:
added preference to enable control-ESC hotkey for those who don't want the feature.
added preference and hot key capability for classic applications to Hide Current (command-H).
added preference and hot key capability for classic applications to Hide Others (command-option-H).
added Traditional Chinese Localization - thanks Joe Wong
fix a bug in 10.3 and when "Hide Application Name in Menu Bar by Default." is enabled, the menu would not appear to the far right.
synced new changes for all Localized resources - these new items aren't localized.