OneClick and QuicKeys {WAS: OSA Menu Lite]
OneClick and QuicKeys {WAS: OSA Menu Lite]
- Subject: OneClick and QuicKeys {WAS: OSA Menu Lite]
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:03:19 -0700
On 9/5/01 8:46 AM, "garbanzito" <email@hidden> wrote:
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at 2001 09 05, 11:46 +0100, they whom i call Mr Tea wrote:
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> For both OSA Menu and OneClick, I suppose that OS X compatibility will
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> become an issue.
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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. QuicKeys is also an
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alternative to OneClick on Mac OS non-X, where i've used it
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for years to run scripts.
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<http://www.cesoft.com>
Not quite the same thing, Steve. 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. Only
for using keyboard shortcuts (about one millionth of what OC can do, and the
least of it) are they comparable. Unfortunately - since OC has been
completely dead about moving into the OS X world. I'll be looking into QC
myself for that reason, to at least get the keyboard shortcuts for
applescripts and for UI application functions. The OS X Dock also provides a
few features of OC's Task Bar (again, the least of it).
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i admire the pluck of the QuicKeys team, as they've
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rewritten the thing from scratch using Cocoa.
I agree wholeheartedly. But I think they must have had to. Unlike other
apps, the whole way these system macro utilities work made them totally
unusable in OS X, and meant that they simply have to start over from the
beginning. QC's features are so minimal compared to OC, or even KeyQuencer,
plus they evidently have such an energetic marketing and development team,
that this was feasible. They run it like a real business, and are to be
commended for their enterprise. I'm sure it will be well rewarded.
WestCode (OC), with its moribund one-person non-team who seems to have
bought it from its original developer, and then hired a great developer (our
own Leonard Rosenthol) to implement OC 2 in his spare time, procrastination
and do-nothing seems to be the order of the day. I imagine that it would
have to be more strongly and efficiently capitalized to make headway. it's a
great shame. I'll be trying out QuicKeys very soon. May OC rest in peace.
(For those of you staying in OS 9 for the next year or two, you should get
OC for that $30 now. The price is ridiculous - it's worth about $250 to
scripters, who can take advantage of its full features.)
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[standard disclaimer]
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Likewise.
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Paul Berkowitz