{"id":4228,"date":"2025-09-03T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:10:42","slug":"fastscripts-3-3-8-improved-arrow-key-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/4228\/fastscripts-3-3-8-improved-arrow-key-navigation","title":{"rendered":"FastScripts 3.3.8: Improved Arrow Key Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FastScripts 3.3.8 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 fixes for a few vexing bugs, particularly with respect to using arrow keys to navigate the menu. Many FatsScripts users interact with the menu primarily via the system-wide keyboard shortcut, and recently some issues arose that prevented the right arrow key, for example, from descending into submenus. I&rsquo;ve also taken the opportunity improve the behavior of the up and down arrow keys for leaving and returning to the search field.<\/p>\n<p>This update also includes refinements to the appearance of the menu&rsquo;s search field, both on current shipping macOS 15 Macs, and on the forthcoming macOS 26 &ldquo;Tahoe&rdquo; system update. The aim here is to have the search field match the appearance of Apple&rsquo;s Help Menu search field, which it now does much more faithfully!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete list of changes for this release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Improve menu navigability with arrow keys<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Adapt layout of menu search field to more closely match the style of Apple&#8217;s Help menu<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fix a bug that prevented scripts invoked &#8220;with parameters&#8221; from showing progress in the menu<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fix a bug that could cause FastScripts to crash when an invoked script crashed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Avoid a momentary flash of the FastScripts menu at launch time<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you enjoy FastScripts, please consider spreading the word to your scripting friends. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FastScripts 3.3.8 is now available on the FastScripts home page, or by selecting &ldquo;Check for Update&rdquo; from the FastScripts menu. This update includes fixes for a few vexing bugs, particularly with respect to using arrow keys to navigate the menu. Many FatsScripts users interact with the menu primarily via the system-wide keyboard shortcut, and recently [&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-4228","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\/4228","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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}