1. Dragthing Windows
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DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs. DragThing lets you organize nearly everything on your Mac into tabbed docks, shows which applications are running, lets you assign sounds to system-related activities like ejecting disks, place a. Found 2 file extension associations related to DragThing and 2 file formats developed specifically for use with DragThing. Platform, operating system: Apple macOS / Mac OS X. Go to: DragThing description. DragThing website. Developer: TLA Systems Ltd. DragThing 2.1 The current version of DragThing is 2.1 which was released on the 1st of December 1997. 2.1 adds full support for MacOS 8 contextual menus, including popup folder contents and recently used documents for applications, and lots more. DragThing is really nice software that I've used for years. It makes a great alternative to the OS X Dock and offers a lot of options and customizability that really make it useful for more than.

DragThing was a sharewareDock application for Mac OS X. Intended for organization and as an application switcher, DragThing allowed for multiple docks with user-specified settings such as color, texture and shape. Dock contents could be organized into tabs and paying the shareware fee enabled the user to assign a keyboard shortcut to any dock item.

DragThing won many awards,^[1] and in 2010 MacWorld gave it 4.5 mice, highlighting its utility for users who preferred using the mouse over keyboard-oriented launchers such as LaunchBar or QuickSilver.

History[edit]

In its early versions, DragThing brought many features useful in a multitasking environment to Classic Mac OS such as alt-tab application switching and an onscreen representation of running processes.^[2] These features were not implemented by Apple until Mac OS 8.5.

DragThing was one of the first applications to adopt the Platinum appearance on Mac OS 8^[3] and ran in the Blue Box on Apple's aborted Rhapsody project.^{[citation needed]}

The DragThing release schedule slowed between 1998 and 2000, as its developer James Thomson was then employed at Apple Inc. as part of the team working on Mac OS X's Finder and Dock. He surmised that the built-in Dock of OS X would soon make DragThing obsolete. Thomson left Apple shortly after Mac OS X was released and resumed work on DragThing, releasing version 4.0 on 24 March 2001, skipping version 3. None of Thomson's code survives in the current shipping version of Apple's Dock.^[4]

DragThing was first released on 1 May 1995 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005. It was praised in a 2004 article by Bruce Tognazzini, who said '...if I could have taken all the lessons learned in Systems 1 through 9 and applied them to System X, I certainly wouldn't have ended up with the Dock. No, I would have ended up with DragThing...'^[5]

In late 2018, the software developer warned of probable end-of-life. This decision was confirmed in 2019, with its website updated to say:

DragThing is written using the 32-bit Carbon APIs that Apple have now removed in macOS 10.15 Catalina. It will no longer run if you update to Catalina, and there are no plans to make a new version that will. We are sorry to say, DragThing has launched its last app. 64-bit support would require completely rewriting the code from the ground up, a process which would take us at least a year to complete... Unfortunately, there is not enough of a market out there these days, such that it would be financially viable for us to do so.

Dragthing Windows

References[edit]

1. ^'About DragThing'. Dragthing.com. Retrieved 17 December 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^'DragThing'. Dcs.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
3. ^'Version History'. Dragthing.com. Retrieved 17 December 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^'A Short History of DragThing'. Dragthing.com. Retrieved 17 December 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^'AskTog: Make Your Mac a Monster Machine'. Asktog.com. Retrieved 17 December 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

Files with dock file extension can also be found as one of the files in Mac OS X (macOS).

There is one other file type using
the DOCK file extension!

.dock - Dock Database chemical modeler input

Software that open dock file

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What is dock file? How to open dock files?

The dock file extension is also related to DragThing utility for Mac OS X (macOS) and use for one of its supporting files.

DragThing is designed to customize the Macintosh desktop. DOCK is perhaps also one of the native formats used in earlier Mac.

The default software associated to open dock file:

Company or developer:
TLA Systems Ltd.

DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop.

Help how to open:

Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.

How to convert:

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.

List of recommended software applications associated to the .dock file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open dock file, edit dock file, convert dock file, view dock file, play dock file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

Unspecified and all other actions for computer programs working with dock file - DragThing dock data

Click on the software link for more information about DragThing. DragThing uses dock file type for its internal purposes and/or also by different way than common edit or open file actions (eg. to install/execute/support an application itself, to store application or user data, configure program etc.).

Apple macOS / Mac OS X:

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Main software associated with dock file by default:
DragThing
Other suggested software:
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