Comments on: FastScripts 2.6.1

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:43:34 +0000

@Ammon – hmm, I have to refresh my memory, but I may have jumped to the conclusion that it got worse in Lion. You might be right it’s always sucked this bad :)

By: Ammon Skidmore

Ammon Skidmore — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:38:24 +0000

I’m curious what the new “cryptic errors” are that you are seeing with Create New Message.scpt. That script has always been pretty bad — since at least 10.5 it always fails if the user has no signatures (5633026). Running it in the Script Editor in Lion at least gets to that point for me before failing. Using osascript on it in the Terminal fails because “No user interaction allowed” — not sure if that’s a bug or not given security changes.

Regarding Clark’s comment, there is currently a bug in Lion where you can’t ask an app to write outside of its sandbox:

set user_documents to path to documents folder
tell application “TextEdit”
make new document
save document 1 in file (user_documents & “test doc” as text)
end tell

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:49:34 +0000

Update: for any other folks who run into the same issue Jason did, I am working on a fix. Here’s an early beta release if you want to try it out now:

http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/FastScripts2.6.2b1.zip

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:24:01 +0000

@Jason – I don’t know what’s going on, but can you drop me an email to support@red-sweater.com? It will be easier to track down what happened over email.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:52:50 +0000

I don’t understand what has happened with this update. Previously, I could hit a key and the associated app would come to the front. That doesn’t work now and renders the application useless for me.

By: Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:06:10 +0000

Sweeet.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:03:02 +0000

@Matt – yeah, you can just hold down cmd-key while clicking and dragging Apple’s script menu icon, and pull it off the menu bar.

By: Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:01:16 +0000

Is there any way to hide the normal Scripts menu, and just use the FastScripts menu as my interface with my various scripts? It seems like such a waste to have two script menus up there, one good and one not so good.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:32:45 +0000

@Clark: I haven’t heard anything on this front. I hope that Apple will not decide that whole classes of applications are now verboten just because they use techniques such as scripting or AppleEvents.

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:22:38 +0000

Out of curiosity what do you make out of the issues in sandboxing that appear to be incompatible with Apple Events? I know Apple has temporary exceptions but it does seem that Apple’s views on security are conflicting with their past support (and encouragement) of Apple Events. Have you heard anything in this regards to give one confidence Apple still has Apple Events in mind as a real strategy?