{"id":3818,"date":"2022-01-20T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:43:53","slug":"fastscripts-3-0-6-bartender-and-scriptability-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3818\/fastscripts-3-0-6-bartender-and-scriptability-enhancements","title":{"rendered":"FastScripts 3.0.6: Bartender Compatability and Scriptability Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FastScripts 3.0.6 is now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/fastscripts\/\">FastScripts home page<\/a>, or by selecting &ldquo;Check for Update&rdquo; from the FastScripts menu.<\/p>\n<p>This update includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the scriptability of FastScripts itself. Notably, it addresses a problem that could occur when the Bartender utility is being used to manage menu bar icons. This update fixes a problem where selecting a script item from the FastScripts menu would behave as though the Command key were held down, and reveal the shortcut editing interface for the script in FastScripts&#8217;s preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Scriptability enhancements include the ability to specify an arbitrary script file to execute via FastScripts, for example, if you write a script to &#8220;\/tmp\/myScript.scpt&#8221; you could invoke it with<\/p>\n<pre>tell app \"FastScripts\" to invoke posix file \"\/tmp\/myScript.scpt\"<\/pre>\n<p>The list of scripts that are currently being run by FastScripts is now also exposed via the app&#8217;s scripting interface. For example, to preemptively terminate the first running script task:<\/p>\n<pre>tell app \"FastScripts\" to force stop script task 1<\/pre>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list of changes for this release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix an interaction with Bartender app that caused the Preferences panel to open when selecting a script<\/li>\n<li>Re-fix an issue that caused custom colored menu bar icons to appear enabled on secondary screens<\/li>\n<li>Remove NSAppleScriptEnabled Info.plist key from FastScripts Script Runner<\/li>\n<li>New preference to hide the Scriptlight search field in the FastScripts menu<\/li>\n<li>Scriptability enhancements to FastScripts itself\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;invoke&#8221; command can now be called with an arbitrary file as the parameter to run scripts outside of your script collection<\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;script tasks&#8221; element provides access to running tasks, which can be force quit via script<\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;preferences window&#8221; property provides scripted access to showing preferences window<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you enjoy FastScripts, please consider spreading the word on <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/fastscriptsapp\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fastscripts\">Twitter<\/a>! Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FastScripts 3.0.6 is now available on the FastScripts home page, or by selecting &ldquo;Check for Update&rdquo; from the FastScripts menu. This update includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the scriptability of FastScripts itself. Notably, it addresses a problem that could occur when the Bartender utility is being used to manage menu bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fastscripts","category-red-sweater-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","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=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}