Publisher's Description
From Sveinbjorn Thordarson:
Platypus is a Mac OS X development tool for creating application wrappers around scripts, i.e. creating Mac OS X applications that execute a script they are bundled with. Scripts thus run transparently from the graphical window environment, facilitating their execution and blending seamlessly into the user interface.
Platypus sports the following features:
- Authentication dialog for executing script with privileges
- Setting custom icons for script applications
- Scripts receive paths of dropped files as arguments
- Scripts receive path to application bundle via $1 (ARGV[0])
- Interface for copying support files into application bundle
- Support for Shell, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Tcl, Expect, AppleScript
- Support for arbitrary interpreter definition -- which effectively means support for any kind of interpreted scripting language
- Apps can be set to run in the background
- Apps can print script output into a text window
- Script encryption and checksumming for secure applications
- Command line utility for automating the creation of applications
What's new in this version:
- New output mode: Status Menu
- Generated apps now have editable nib files
- New "Optimize Application" option which strips/compiles nibs and removes unnecessary files from generated application bundle
- Current working directory is now set to .app/Contents/Resources in scripts running with Admin privileges
- Auto-scrolling of output in Web View mode
- Drag and drop now works properly in Web View windows
- Various interface refinements
- ... See all new features
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"Does what it says."
Version: Platypus 4.4
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Does what it says.
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Does what it says.
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Easy way to create basic apps. Limited use but perfect at what it does.
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"Brilliant!"
Version: Platypus 4.3
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I thank you much for this great tool.
It has made my life easier, and allows me to use my basic skills to do more than I could normally do.
Thumbs up!
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"It did what I wanted"
Version: Platypus 2.6
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I know nothing about coding. I had a script that I used to run from the Applescript environment whenever required. I opened it in Platypus saved it as standalone drop-able item and i now have a one click solution. Never read any documentation because I never had to....It just worked.
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"EXCELLENT!!!"
Version: Platypus 2.5
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Not only is this a great idea and a great implementation, but when I had a problem, the developer responded immediately and fixed it!
If you write scripts, you must have Platypus. -
"Great!"
Version: Platypus 2.2
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This app is really great, user-friendly and feature-rich. What I like most: It supports start by dropping file(s) on the generated program. Just imagine what you could do now with your X11 applications - or even with MacDoomLegacy (drop some PWADs on a script that writes "addfile" lines into the config file, and enjoy) ! -
"it's fun"
Version: Platypus 2.2
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This app supports AppleScript. Even, you can build apps that do not generate "connection" errors, such as the ones from Apple's AppleScript Editor. I have been searching a solution to this problem for long: I found Platypus.
Very cool little app, coming with samples and tutorials. I didnt test all the script features, just AppleScript, but anyway I give 5 stars. -
"five and a half stars"
Version: Platypus 2.1
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I really like Platypus, which has secured a permanent corner in my toolbox. And it keeps getting better. Whether it supports AppleScript or not is irrelevant to me, since I can always callosascript -l AppleScript -e commandfrom any shell script. Although I'm familiar with older versions of Perl and Ruby, I seem to do most of my scripting in Bash. Wrapped in Platypus, which is now so good it almost requires a user's manual, my efforts join the contents of my /Applications folder without a blush (along with Gimp.app!) -
"This seems cool but...."
Version: Platypus 1.2
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It does not work with Applescript as advertsied, the apps just refuse to launch.
4 points because im sure it an oversight and will be fixed soon. -
"Exactly what I was looking for!"
Version: Platypus 1.2
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This is excellent, and works as advertised. Nothing could be simpler than dropping a script on the platypus, then saving a WORKING APPLICATION to your Desktop. This means that Login Items can start up a script as though it were a normal application, without spewing ugly Terminal windows all over the desktop when you try to launch a KludgeScript.command ! Of course, it also means MANY, MANY other things, but those can be left as exercise for the imagination... ;-) Platypus should have been on board with the first non-beta OS X, in my opinion. My only micro-cavil ... no, nano-cavil ... is that some of us use Bash, and some of us will use Shells Not Yet Dreamed Of, so it would be nice if you could honor the shebang line. Thanks MUCH for adding Ruby support, one of my favorites.
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