Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. -Oscar Wilde )…

If it could come out of the menubar, or perhaps add a “favorites” list in the menu bar menu — I have way too many iconsup in the menubar, and they each need to add utility!

What feature of change would make PopChar more useful?

I’d love for the window to be organized more like Overflow (from Stunt Software) — except have the window be translucent always. This way, there’d be clear categorization on the left of the palette, allowing for quick navigation.

Of course, if this translucent window was customized to my heart’s content – showing me the categories and symbols I want to see, without having to scan through ones I don’t need, that would seal the deal!

It’ll help me find the accented letters when I’m typing in foreign languages, as well as helping me out with HTML coding.

I create ads for clients in English and French (in Canada) and also in Spanish for a South American company. It’s a small world!

-I would make this a dashboard widget.

Thank you :]

Now you’ve got the same thing. You’ll see an American flag in your menubar (unless you use a different keyboard layout which would show a different icon representing that).

Simply click on the flag, choose Show Character Pallet, and you’ve got the same functionality as PopChar.

Apple was designed with fonts very much in mind .. and this functionality has been a part of the operating system in one form or another since, oh, System1. (KeyCaps gained in functionality, and then Character Pallet took it’s place in OS X.)

What feature of change would make PopChar more useful?

instead of a menu icon, giving PopChar a global shortcut and have all it’s settings in a system preferences pane, to make it feel more like an OSX feature, not an “addin”.

If you could group font families so scrolling is less.

As an engineer and scientist, I often find myself needing special characters and access to Greek letters. When using traditional software such as MS Word, it makes it redundant to always have to go by the Insert -> Special character menu. It’s redundant, and when using Office 2004, there’s always a little access delay between clicking on the menu option and the proper screen coming up. Having access to such an application would greatly increase efficiency and just make a smoother and more coherent work flow when working on reports/documents/etc…

Like you mentioned, I’d use the HTML feature. When ever I need to find the HTML entity for that symbol, I usually have to search around the internet for it. This app would make thing so much simpler.

I would switch it from being a menu item to a dashboard widget. This is the perfect thing for the dashboard. My menu bar is already crowded with iStatMenu menus that show my my processor usage, network bandwidth, etc. Having this on the dashboard would be brilliant though.

Aslam

A: I use PopChar both as character viewer and as symbol inserter, but mainly the latter. Given its characteristics I don’t use it on all my projects, only on the more specialized ones that need certain characters (normally mathematic symbols or greek characters). Btw, the new zoom capability (to see the characters) is quite useful!

Q: What feature of change would make PopChar more useful?

A: First, I’d like to see a Contextual Menu (or Services Menu) where to include my chosen (i.e. most used) characters; this would make the process of inserting the characters much more fluid (if in Services we can even set shortcuts). Secondly, inside the PopChar general window I’d like to see a new sub-window where we would be able to write a small phrase and see it on the different (chosen) fonts, as mean of comparison.