Rainer Brockerhoff releases Klicko 1.0 click-through blocker

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Rainer Brockerhoff releases Klicko 1.0 click-through blocker - Published on 12/01/08

 

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Rainer Brockerhoff has announced version 1.0 of Klicko, a small freeware utility that blocks undesired click-through in application windows. Klicko is a simple Cocoa application. It doesn't hack the system, other applications, inject code or do anything magic. Just run it, and the Classic behavior will be back: you must first click anywhere inside a background to bring it to the front.

 

Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Rainer Brockerhoff has announced version 1.0 of Klicko, a small freeware utility that blocks undesired click-through in application windows. In the Classic days, if you wanted to use a window that wasn't frontmost, you could click anywhere on it to bring it to the front. Mac OS X introduced a feature called "click-through" where certain controls, like the "traffic-light" buttons in the window title, would work even for background windows. Applications can also make other controls, or even the entire window, work with click-through.

 

If you, too, think click-through is inconsistent and annoying, Klicko will be useful.

 

Klicko is a simple Cocoa application. It doesn't hack the system, other applications, inject code or do anything magic. Just run it, and the Classic behavior will be back: you must first click anywhere inside a background to bring it to the front.

 

Features:

* Klicko can be instructed to not act on any of a list of applications, or

* Klicko can act only on specific applications in a list.

* Klicko will momentarily let through any clicks with a modifier key.

* Clicks on the window "traffic light" buttons continue to work.

* It can run in the Dock or in the menu bar.

 

Minimum Requirements:

* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard

* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

 

Rainer Brockerhoff: http://www.brockerhoff.net/

Klicko 1.0: http://www.brockerhoff.net/klicko

Download Klicko: http://www.brockerhoff.net/klicko/Klicko.dmg

App Icon: http://www.brockerhoff.net/Klicko.png

 

 

Rainer Brockerhoff has been programming since 1969, for the Mac since 1984. His RBSplitView open-source framework is used by nearly a hundred published applications, and several other shareware and freeware applications can be found on his website. Copyright 1969-2008 Rainer Brockerhoff. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

 

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