I’m excited to announce that I have become the new host of the MacScripter.net discussion forum. MacScripter has been a long standing resource for information…
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MarksLib is a collection of handlers for everyday operations that I find myself using in almost every script I write. There are tools for reading and writing text files, string substitution, converting between strings and arrays and more.
Comments closedAs a side project I am working on an improved AppleScript droplet shell. My goal is to create a better AppleScript droplet experience by providing a better UI for receiving dropped files and offering a way of picking files to process via integrated Spotlight document searching (you’ll recognize this as being based on Script Debugger’s Open Quickly feature). Additionally, I want to give droplet scripts an opportunity to clean up if the user stops or quits the script.
Comments closedI’m pleased to announce the release of Script Debugger 6. www.latenightsw.com
3 CommentsI oscillate between Acorn and Pixelmator on the Mac – its great to have two competent alternatives to Photoshop. Pixelmator is my current fav on…
3 CommentsHere is an updated version of the Script Debugger 6 (build 6A162) release notes. We are very close to completion and this document quite accurately reflects the new features in Script Debugger 6.
Comments closedI’m posting this in-progress document publicly as a bit of an experiment. Given that it has been several years since the release of Script Debugger 5, I hope that the appearance of this information will give people confidence that Script Debugger 6’s release is imminent.
4 CommentsIn a recent piece on his blog Dave Winer imagines what might have been had his ideas for persistent global variables in his Frontier development…
1 CommentThere is a long standing bug in Cocoa Scripting, the technology Apple provides to developers to help make their applications scriptable, where the Open, Move…
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