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(Depending on which directory I save it in, it may be a script I can access from anywhere, or it may be a script that’s available only when I’m in a certain application.) It’s very much like scripting for the command line. 1 I write a script using whatever tools I’m comfortable with, I save it in a particular directory, and it’s immediately available from the FastScripts menu. No need to open up the Keyboard Preference Pane.įinally, I just find FastScripts to be more Unix-y. In contrasts, by soft linking ( ln -s) or extending your $PATH, you can write one script used in FastScripts and at the command line.Ī second, albeit minor, advantage of FastScripts is that you can assign keyboard shortcuts within FastScripts itself.

If you also want the script to run from the command line (and I usually do), you need two versions: a regular script in your $PATH for the command line and an Automator action for Services.

When something goes wrong, is it the script or is it the way the script is called in Automator? In my experience, at least, Automator actions always run slower than bare scripts. You have to write the script correctly, and you have to fit the script within the Automator framework.

It adds an unnecessary level of complexity.

But there is a lot of overlap between the two, and in that overlap FastScripts is much better.įirst, FastScripts runs scripts directly, whereas in Services you have to wrap your scripts in Automator actions, which has four detrimental effects: It’s true that Services has taken a big step forward, and it’s also true that Services and FastScripts don’t cover exactly the same ground.

With Snow Leopard, many of these same people think Apple finally got it right.

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Maybe that’ll get fixed in the next release.īefore Snow Leopard, Mac people often complained that Services, available through a submenu under every application’s menu, were a great idea with a poor implementation. I have my SuspendSleep script bound to ⌃⌥⌘F19, which shows up in the FastScripts preferences like thisĮven though my F19 key doesn’t have a Chinese character on it. One bug not fixed in this release is a display problem with certain keyboard shortcuts. I prefer a bit of color to distinguish the items on the right side of the menubar, but I haven’t found a color that works with the FastScripts icon. Apparently, Daniel added this feature under duress from his users he ascribes to Henry Ford’s philosophy. That would consolidate all my scripting into TextMate and would lead to plain text AppleScripts.įastScripts’ primary visual improvement is the ability to choose the color of its menu icon. But TextMate has an AppleScript bundle (described in a couple of screencasts) that might be worth trying out. I’ve never saved AppleScripts in that format, mainly because I’m used to writing AppleScripts in the AppleScript Editor (née Script Editor), which saves in the script format (. The only functionality added to FastScripts in Version 2.5 is the ability to run AppleScripts saved as plain text files (with an. If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I use FastScripts a lot, even though Snow Leopard’s new Services system is similar. It’s mostly a bugfix release, but it does have a couple of worthwhile new features.

FASTSCRIPTS LITE VERSION SOFTWARE

Next post Previous post FastScripts 2.5 and Servicesĭaniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software recently released Version 2.5 of FastScripts, the utility that lets you run any kind of script (AppleScript, Perl, Python, Bash, etc.) from either a menu or a keyboard shortcut from any application.