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Red Sweater<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By default, FastScripts searches for scripts in the same standard “Scripts” folders that Apple’s Script Menu searches. […] I’ve expanded FastScripts to support an arbitrary number of user-determined locations, whose script contents will all be available to the app.<\/p>

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FastScripts supports the ability to invoke any script … from within another script. […] The ability to run scripts has gotten a lot more powerful in FastScripts 3.2, with the addition of robust support for specifying parameters to invoked scripts.<\/p>

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Instead of a result, the “run” command in FastScripts returns a script task object. You can use this reference to “force stop” a running script, but perhaps more importantly, you can now use it to await the script’s result. When your script requests the “result” of a script item, FastScripts will suspend the execution of your script until the result is available.<\/p>

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In FastScripts 3.2 special care is taken to differentiate search results so that identically named items are further identified by the folder that contains them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love the new custom Script Collections feature. I like to keep my scripts in a Git repository, which is stored outside of the standard Scripts<\/tt> folder, and so I would create symlinks to the per-application folders in the repo from there. I’d have to recreate these when adding scripts for a new app or when cloning the repo to a new Mac. Also, although FastScripts would follow<\/em> the symlinks to my folders, they would confuse its file system monitoring, so it wouldn’t notice changes to the contents of the actual folders. Now I can dispense with the symlinks and just add the AppleScripts<\/tt> folder of my repo as a script collection in FastScripts. (I also needed to move all the per-application folders into an Applications<\/tt> folder to prevent all the scripts from being universally available.) My FastScripts menu looks and works the same as before, but now I can store the files where I want and everything updates automatically.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n