Platypus 3.1
I have just completed the final touches on Platypus, version 3.1. You can grab the tarball right here. At this stage, Platypus is so feature-packed that I am at a loss as to how I can improve it any further. This may quite possibly be the last update to a software project that I have spent countless hours working on in the past two years.
Version 3.1 sports the following improvements/updates:
- New minimal, non-intrusive built-in text editor for those who prefer working within the confines of a single application
- It is now possible to set application author name manually
- Invalid configuration fields now highlight red real-time as you type
- New Dock menu
- New "Show Shell Command" menu item to facilitate integration between the Platypus GUI application and its command line equivalent
- Fixed the bug where "secured and checksummed" Platypus-generated applications failed to function correctly on read-only volumes
- New option to set default bundle identifier prefix in the Preferences
- New option to set default author name in the Preferences
- Profiles now correctly register reverse-DNS-style bundle identifier and author name
- "Run script in Terminal" command now brings Terminal.app to the front when launching the script
- Fixed a bug in the command line utility installer (which, incidentally, was created using Platypus)
- Updated man page for the 'platypus' command line utility counterpart
- Updated Help documentation detailing major improvements from v. 3.0 onwards
- More sample scripts, including a drag and drop
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- Platypus apps now register their creator in AppSettings.plist
- Help now opens with default app for http: protocol, not .html suffix. This should eliminate the problem some people have been experiencing with help files opening in their default text editor
