RE: OneClick and QuicKeys {WAS: OSA Menu Lite]
RE: OneClick and QuicKeys {WAS: OSA Menu Lite]
- Subject: RE: OneClick and QuicKeys {WAS: OSA Menu Lite]
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:15:19 -0700
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> just FYI, QuicKeys X is in beta, and includes the ability to
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> run AppleScripts from a hot key.
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>PB>>Not quite the same thing, Steve.
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>>>OneClick can embed AppleScript in its own scripts, can exchange variables with AS, and can do about a million things in its easy-to-learn but incredibly powerful scripting that QC can't.
QuickKeys can do most things that OneClick does including embedding scripts and sharing data. It's older and clunkier than OneClick and it has more bugs, but I think the difference between the two is being greatly exaggerated here.
I'm particularly interested in looking at QuickKeys in OS X. If they have done a good job reworking it and if they kept all the features and made everything work, I might even start using it again!
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>PB>>its easy-to-learn but incredibly powerful scripting that QC
That's one of the things I like least about One Click. I already have incredibly powerful easy-to-learn scripting (AppleScript) that I'm very happy with. It's a pity they chose to bury the meat of their scripting interface behind a another language. I think it hurt them in the marketplace too. I know of at least one site where that cost them hundreds of installs.
QuickKeys has a lot of power and a lot more potential (If they would just get everything to work reliably!) and it's largely Scriptable.
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