This update marks the departure of FastScripts from the Mac App Store.
If it is, clicking the “Open Web Store” button will automatically open the Red Sweater Store page with your upgrade license entered for you.
If you have installed FastScripts 3 on your Mac, open the “Enter Registration Code” panel, where your existing FastScripts 2 license should be acknowledged. Just click “I’m upgrading from a previous version” after adding FastScripts 3 to your cart.
That’s it! All of the other great features of FastScripts are completely free to use, so if you don’t miss any of the premium features, feel free to use and enjoy the app to your heart’s content! Upgrade from FastScripts 2Ĭustomers who purchased a license for FastScripts 2 can use their FastScripts 2 license code to unlock discount pricing at the Red Sweater Store. When you use one of these features, they will still work, but a dialog will appear first to remind you that they are not included in the free version. Features such as FastScripts’s “display message” command for presenting “HUD-style” messages, the new “open web page” scripting command, and other added utilities, are all premium features. After dismissing the reminder, the script will proceed to run. When you invoke a script by keyboard shortcut, you will be reminded of the limitation in the free version. The number and depth of premium features may grow over time, but as of FastScripts 3’s debut, these are the features that are considered premium, and a description of how they behave when used without a paid license: Little things, like the ability of the app to detect when you attempt to assign a shortcut that is already being used for another script, to improvements to the appearance of the app’s built in “display message” panels, to the long-awaited support for symbolic links in the script folder, will perpetually surprise and delight you! Premium FeaturesįastScripts is free to use with premium features disabled. This update is the culmination of years of work on various aspects of the app, many of which are not “headline” level changes. This interface also makes it easy to stop scripts if they have run amok, or you’ve decided you don’t want them to run to completion. Scripts that report their progress will have timing and text feedback conveyed to users by way of the FastScripts menu: In tandem with the new support for parallel execution, FastScripts now supports the standard AppleScript progress updating mechanism. If the top result is the script you’re looking for, just press return to immediately run the script. When the Script Menu is opened, the search field is made active by default, so any typing will immediately filter the menu contents to scripts that match your search. The search field at the top of the FastScripts Script Menu can be used to quickly locate a script from your script library: This guarantees a consistent execution environment, and allows for an arbitrary number of scripts to run in parallel without impacting the performance of the app itself, or of other scripts being run. Specifically, scripts are now run independently from the app and in their own application processes. This update brings a fundamental change to the script execution infrastructure for the app, which will dramatically improve some workflows. The app icon brings a fresh, modern look to the stylized “scroll and lightning bolt” image that has always represented the app, while the menu bar icon features a sleek monochrome design that looks right at home alongside Apple’s own icons.īoth icons were designed by Brad Ellis, who also designed the MarsEdit 4 icon. Updated IconsįastScripts 3 features a new app icon and a new menu bar icon. The biggest changes have to do with improved script execution, search functionality for your script library, and tracking the progress of running scripts.
What’s New in FastScripts 3įastScripts 3 brings features big and small. Customers who purchased FastScripts 2 on or after Januare entitled to a free upgrade. Premium features can be unlocked for a one-time payment of $39.95 for new customers, or $19.95 for customers upgrading a paid license for FastScripts 2.
The app is available from the FastScripts home page, and is free to use with premium features disabled. Today I am excited to release FastScripts 3.0 to the general public.