{"id":180,"date":"2006-09-03T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/180\/fastscripts-23-beta-release"},"modified":"2006-09-03T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T00:28:25","slug":"fastscripts-23-beta-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/180\/fastscripts-23-beta-release","title":{"rendered":"FastScripts 2.3 Beta Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine FastScripts users might be feeling a little neglected, what with all the attention I&#8217;ve been giving FlexTime over the past several months. But worry not, I&#8217;ve been collecting improvements for FastScripts all along, and am nearly ready to release a 2.3 version of the app.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s actually pretty close to ready for shipping. But it would be nice to have a little 3rd party testing, because quite a bit has changed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/FastScripts2.3b2.zip\">Click here<\/a> to download the 2.3b2 release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe most &#8220;scary to me&#8221; parts that have changed are all infrastructure-level. At the user feature level there were a bunch of minor enhancements and these more substantial changes:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grayscale Menu Icon<\/strong>. For years a vocal minority has copmlained about the colorful FastScripts icon being both distracting and clashing with the appearance of Apple&#8217;s icons. They finally convinced me to agree with them. I know some people will miss the old icon, so I&#8217;ve left it in as a preference choice. The grayscale icon will probably see a few minor tweaks before 2.3 ships, so let me know what you think of it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Modifier-free Shortcuts<\/strong>. Up until now FastScripts has only supported keyboard shortcuts where some modifier key is held down (except for the special case of Function Keys). I was hesitant to add support for plain keystrokes, because it&#8217;s easy to imagine users getting themselves into trouble. But there are a few examples where overriding a bare keystroke (usually in an application-specific context) is a useful thing to do. Just beware that you won&#8217;t be able to type that keystroke into any text after you&#8217;ve set the shortcut. FastScripts will warn you when you attempt to set such a shortcut, so don&#8217;t worry too much.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preference Window Overhaul<\/strong>. Well, maybe overhaul is too strong, but things have been shaken up. I&#8217;ve added a new &#8220;General&#8221; tab to house a new UI for controlling whether FastScripts is in your Login Items or not. That feature is long overdue. I&#8217;ve also moved some other preferences into that pane, where they seem better suited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m really looking forward to hearing your impressions. Please let me know <em>especially<\/em> if you run into any problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine FastScripts users might be feeling a little neglected, what with all the attention I&#8217;ve been giving FlexTime over the past several months. But worry not, I&#8217;ve been collecting improvements for FastScripts all along, and am nearly ready to release a 2.3 version of the app. It&#8217;s actually pretty close to ready for shipping. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fastscripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}