1) for UnRarX to recognize that a password is required before attempting extraction, and to prompt for the user for it--rather than attempt to extract possiby scores of files, each with it's own "password incorrect?" error.

2) I know we can remove items from the toolbar (I have it down to "Password" and "Extract"), but I don't see how to ADD things: either new commands, or to replace ones that were removed

3) more key equivalents. I used QuickKeys to give a key-command to the password dialog. Why not have it built in?

When you extract more than one rar at a time it just dumps both file's output into the bottom half of the window. It would be nice if instead of just showing something like

1% 0% 4% 3% 49% 12% 1% 2% 5% 4% 50% 13% 2% 3% 6% 51% 5% 14% 3% 4% 7% 15% 52% 6% 4% 8% 5% 16% 53% 7% 5% 9% 54% 17% 6% 8% 6% 10% 55% 18% 9% 7% 7% 11% 19% 56% 10% 8% 8% 12% 20% 57% 11% 9% 9% 13% 21% 58% 12% 10% 10% 14% 22% 59% 13% 11% 11% 23% 15% 14% 60% 12% 16% 24% 12% 15% 61% 13% 17% 25% 16% 62% 13% 14% 18% 26% 17% 63% 15% 14% 19% 27% 18% 15% 64% 16% 20% 28% 19% 65% 17% 16% 21% 29% 20% 66% 18% 17% 22% 30% 21% 67% 19% 23% 31% 18% 22% 68% 24% 20% 32% 19% 23% 69% 25% 21% 33% 24% 20% 70% 26% 22% 34% 25% 71% 27% 21% 23% 35% 26% 72% 28% 24% 22% 36% 27% 73% 29% 23% 25% 37% 28% 74% 30% 24% 26% 38% 29% 75% 31% 27% 39% 25% 30% 76% 32% 28% 40% 31% 26% 77% 33% 29% 41% 32% 78% 27% 34% 30% 42% 33% 79% 35% 31% 28% 43% 34% 80% 36% 44% 32% 29% 35% 81% 37% 45% 33% 30% 36% 38% 82% 46% 34% 31% 37% 39% 83% 47% 35% 38% 32% 40% 84% 48% 36% 39% 41% 85% 33% 49% 37% 40% 42% 86% 34% 50% 38% 41% 43% 87% 51% 39% 35% 42% 44% 88% 52% 40% 36% 43%

if it showed them as separate progress bars.

Couple of things. Well, probably more than a couple. ;-).

On my Intel Mac in OS X 10.4.9, UnRarX is showing a duplicate Help menu. One is the correct one which opens your help book and has the Donate item, and the other to the right has only the Help menu item which opens a blank page in Help Viewer. There's only one Help menu item in your MainMenu.nib file, so I'm not sure what's going on... Weird after a second relaunch it seems to be gone.

The "Preferences..." menu item in the application menu should have the standard shortcut Command-,.

For the Preferences sheet, you should either set an appropriate minimum width and height so that the panel can't resized smaller to cut off items, or make it non-resizable. Since there's not much reason to have it resizable, I'd just make it non-resizable. Personally, I'd rather see Cancel and OK buttons, with OK being the default button (\E as the key equiv for Cancel, and \R as the key equiv for OK). If you do use one button, I think "Done" would be more appropriate than "Close". For example, the standard NSToolbar customization sheet uses the single Done button.

The File menu (and equivalent toolbar items) are kind of confusing. "Browse…" should be the standard "Open…" and the key equivalent should be Command-O. Using an ellipsis in the "Test…" and "Extract…" menu commands is confusing. If I haven't done anything else in the application and choose "Test…", I get the error saying please select a file. To me, the ellipsis after Test means that it's going to open a dialog for a file to test, not perform an action on a selected item. If it's supposed to perform an action, there shouldn't an ellipsis, and it should also be disabled unless an item is selected. (Eliminate the coding used to take care of the error situation by preventing the error situation from occurring in the first place. ;-) You should be able to use "- (BOOL)validateMenuItem:(id <NSMenuItem>)menuItem;" to enable or disable menu items). There may also be a similar method for toolbar items.

For the Extract to popup button, when you choose Other... to bring up the dialog, it looks like you're not checking the return code and are always adding the selected location regardless of whether the Cancel or Open button was pressed. The term "File Directory" should be "Folder" as recommended in Apple's user interface guidelines. Actually, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by File Directory. Does that mean it'll be extracted to the File's Directory, or in other words, the same folder as the file that you're unrarring? Hmm, wasn't there a Manage... menu item below the Other... one? After choosing Other... several times, and pressing Cancel in the Open dialog, it's now disappeared. Quitting and relaunching restores it. [EDIT]: Found this in the console:

2007-03-21 00:28:27.668 UnRarX[24305] *** Assertion failure in -[NSMenu insertItem:atIndex:], Menus.subproj/NSMenu.m:527
2007-03-21 00:28:28.229 UnRarX[24305] Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index <= (_itemArray ? CFArrayGetCount((CFArrayRef)_itemArray) : 0))


The password sheet has the same problem as the preferences sheet; should be non-resizable. I'd also put the OK button to the right.

Regarding the toolbar customization: while you can get around the lack of a View menu by pressing Command-Option and clicking the toolbar button to bring up the customization sheet, there should really be a View menu for those options.

Peter, you should probably add a "View" menu to your main menu. (I'd place it to the left of the Window menu). Add a menu item titled "Hide Toolbar/Show Toolbar" and then one titled "Customize Toolbar…" below it. Set the action for Hide Toolbar/Show Toolbar to "toggleToolbarShown:" in First Responder. (The toolbar's title will automatically be toggled between Hide Toolbar and Show Toolbar by the toolbar). Set the action for Customize Toolbar… to "runToolbarCustomizationPalette:" in First Responder. You shouldn't need any other coding and that should work to alter the toolbar.

Please please please please, add an option to close the program after extraction!

This would be awesome and i would love you long time :)

I totally agree with Garywoo and SebDominguez.

1) An option to close the program after completion would be great. Even better still would be if there was a way to activate "Simple Mode" so the program looked and felt similar to the Archive Utility. (i.e. Shows a progress bar, and then quits. I often don't want to see a complete list of files being unzipped.)

2) Having a RAR icon like the one Seb suggested would really make the whole process of handling RARs feel more user-friendly. Especially because the current "3 notebook" icon doesn't make much sense to me anyway.