Comments on: FastScripts 2.2.6 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:30:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Daniel Jalkut http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/comment-page-1/#comment-9477 Daniel Jalkut Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:21:38 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/#comment-9477 Hi Michael - it's a great treat to see my work handed "kudos" in a public arena like this. You are correct that FastScripts includes special code to better support Path Finder. I don't use Path Finder myself, but a customer who uses both it and FastScripts requested the functionality. I simply make the assumption that if Path Finder is running, the user would rather open in that than in the (possibly also running) Finder. Like most of the (sometimes surprising) refinements in FastScripts, I can only take credit for writing the code. The best ideas came from my users who, for reasons I cannot understand, choose not to use the utility exactly as I do :) Thanks again for the kind words, Daniel Hi Michael - it's a great treat to see my work handed "kudos" in a public arena like this.

You are correct that FastScripts includes special code to better support Path Finder. I don't use Path Finder myself, but a customer who uses both it and FastScripts requested the functionality. I simply make the assumption that if Path Finder is running, the user would rather open in that than in the (possibly also running) Finder.

Like most of the (sometimes surprising) refinements in FastScripts, I can only take credit for writing the code. The best ideas came from my users who, for reasons I cannot understand, choose not to use the utility exactly as I do :)

Thanks again for the kind words,
Daniel

]]> By: Michael http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/comment-page-1/#comment-9443 Michael Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:08:04 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/#comment-9443 Path Finder doesn't register to handle URLs. At first I thought FastScripts might just be using the OS's generic "open file" feature. But Path Finder responds to that by opening a new window, whereas with FastScripts it reveals the folder in an existing window. So, although I didn't actually check, I'm pretty sure it's using an Apple event. Path Finder doesn't register to handle URLs. At first I thought FastScripts might just be using the OS's generic "open file" feature. But Path Finder responds to that by opening a new window, whereas with FastScripts it reveals the folder in an existing window. So, although I didn't actually check, I'm pretty sure it's using an Apple event.

]]> By: ssp http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/comment-page-1/#comment-9442 ssp Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:55:32 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/10/03/fastscripts-226/#comment-9442 Not that I'm using PathFinder myself, but would have expected for this being nothing but a question about which application gets to handle file: URLs. Not that I'm using PathFinder myself, but would have expected for this being nothing but a question about which application gets to handle file: URLs.

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