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How Do Application-Specific Scripts Work?

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FastScripts uses the same cue as Apple’s Script Menu to determine whether a script belongs in the “Application Specific” section of the menu. Any folders inside the “Applications” folder of your “Scripts” folder are given special meaning and interpreted as the names of targeted applications.

Some applications’ true names are different from what you typically see in the user interface, so it can be difficult to guess the proper name for the folder. You can eliminate the guesswork by lettings FastScripts open or create an application-specific script folder for you:

1. Launch the application you wish to target.
2. Select the Create menu item from the FastScripts submenu.

Any scripts in such a folder will be visible in the application-specific section of the FastScripts menu when the targeted application is active. Likewise, any keyboard shortcuts attached to these items will be active only while the application is active.

Can I Easily Edit Or Open An Item From The FastScripts Menu?

Normally when you select an item from the FastScripts menu, the selected item is run if it is a script item. If you select an item from the menu while holding down a modifier key on the keyboard, the selection is treated as a shortcut for a special request.

Hold down the option key to edit the selected item.

Hold down the shift key to reveal the selected item in the Finder.

Hold down the command key to define a keyboard shortcut for the selected item.

Can I Specify A Different Application For Editing Scripts?

FastScripts can be configured to use whichever application you prefer for editing AppleScript or shell script (text) files. To choose your preferred applications:

1. Open the Preferences dialog (from the FastScripts menu, select FastScripts -> Preferences)
2. Select the General pane from the tab view.
3. Click the Choose… button next to the appropriate document type.

Why Does FastScripts Refuse To Accept Some Keyboard Shortcuts?

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Can I Use An Alias To A Network Server In My Scripts Folder?

Yes, but there are a few caveats. Since FastScripts updates its internal script catalog only when the files in your scripts directory change, an alias to a server that is intermittently available can cause FastScripts to get confused.

If an alias to a server cannot be resolved at any time during FastScripts execution, a resolution will not be attempted again until FastScripts is quit and restarted, or until the alias file itself is modified. This is to prevent the time lag that constantly attempting to resolve the network alias would cause. If you are using network aliases in your scripts folder, make sure the server they resolve to is connected and stays connected for the entire time FastScripts is running.

Can I Remove Apple’s “Library Scripts” From The FastScripts Menu?

Yes, but unfortunately you must run a special command from the Terminal to enable this feature. I plan to introduce a preferences window option for this feature, in a future update. If you are feeling technically ambitious, you can change the list of folders that FastScripts searches for scripts:

1. Quit FastScripts
2. Open Terminal from the Application > Utilities folder on your Mac.
3. Run the following command:
4. Relaunch FastScripts

Now it should show scripts only from your home directory.

Can I add additional script folders to the FastScripts Menu?

Yes, using the same technique as described above, you can change the list of folders that FastScripts searches for scripts:

1. Quit FastScripts
2. Open Terminal from the Application > Utilities folder on your Mac.
3. Run the following command:
4. Relaunch FastScripts

Now it should show both the default folders as well as the scripts from your custom folder.

FastScripts is one of Red Sweater’s most beloved, albeit niche, apps. The Mac-based scripting utility adds a menu bar icon for running scripts, and supports attaching keyboard shortcuts to them. Like many customers, I’ve been running it on my Mac literally every day for … seemingly forever.

Although the app has been continuously developed over the past twenty years or so, and has received many updates, it’s been a long time since I released a major upgrade. I went looking through the Red Sweater Blog archives to try to discover when FastScripts 2.0 shipped, and I couldn’t find a post. Why? It shipped before 2005, the year when this blog debuted. I had to resort to searching my email archives, where I discovered that FastScripts 2.0 was released on June 10, 2004. That release inroduced keyboard shortcuts and a number of new preferences to the app.

Over the years I’ve had a lot of ideas about how FastScripts might evolve, and have worked on new features intermittently. As part of my recent decision to reinvest in Red Sweater, I decided to focus on finally shipping some of those features in a major 3.0 upgrade. Today, I’d like to share what I’ve got so far, as a public beta:

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(Free of charge until public release – Requires macOS 10.14.6 or later)

The major changes in this upgrade are the introduction of a search feature so you can easily sift through all the scripts in the menu, and a major overhaul to the way scripts are executed so that multiple scripts can be fired off in rapid succession without interfering with one another. The upgrade also includes a number of other changes. Here’s the complete list:

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• Scriptlight: quickly search your scripts from the FastScripts menu
  • Currently matches based on script title, may expand to match content
• Scripts are always run in a separate process
  • Low latency execution by priming script running process
  • No limit to running simultaneous scripts
  • Scripts can’t “hang up” the main app or cause it to crash
• FastScripts scripting changes
  • New “open web page” command streamlines visiting favorite URLs in whatever browser is active
  • FastScripts’s own hierarchies of scripts are now described as “script collections”
  • Improved the layout of text in the “display message” message panels
• Other improvements
  • Conflicts are now detected when setting keyboard shortcuts for scripts
  • Keyboard shortcuts are now disabled while editing a script’s keyboard shortcut
  • Symbolic links are now supported in script folder hierarchies

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Apart from the changes listed above, I hope to soon offer the ability to monitor and cancel long-running scripts are launched from FastScripts.

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This upgrade will address a lot of of minor usability limitations of FastScripts 2 while also setting the groundwork for continued evolution of the app going forward. If you run scripts on your Mac, I hope you’ll consider giving it a try!