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Big Cat

Big Cat - 1.0b1

contextual menu plugin for AppleScripts

All Time: (4.3)
Version 1.0b1: (4.2)
Selected Version: 1.0b1
Release Date: 2002-03-26
License: Beta
Downloads (version 1.0b1): 905
Downloads (all versions): 5,690

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Product Description:

This contextual menu plugin for OS X gives you a Scripts submenu. You can attach your own AppleScript scripts and run them from the Finder and other applications that support contextual menus (such as BBEdit, Internet Explorer, and Eudora).

About the example scripts
You may or may not want to use all or some of them. It’s up to you. Just drag a script out of its folder if you don’t want to use it anymore.
The Files scripts are:
  • Copy Path: copies the paths of selected files and/or folders to the clipboard. If more than one is selected, they’re separated by a comma and a space.
  • Make Alias on Desktop: creates an alias to the selected files and/or folders on the Desktop.
  • Open in BBEdit: opens the selected files in BBEdit.
  • Open in TextEdit: opens the selected files in TextEdit.
  • Stuff: calls DropStuff to stuff the selected files and folders.
The Text scripts are:
  • Copy: copies the selected text to the clipboard. Surprisingly, not all applications that support contextual menus put a copy command in the menu.
  • Google Search: runs a Google search for the selected text in your default Web browser
  • Open Selection in BBEdit: opens the selected text in a new window in BBEdit.
  • Open Selection in TextEdit: opens the selected text in a new window in TextEdit.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

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Big Cat Troubleshooting ReportLeopard - Version: 1.0.1, 3/19/2008 03:34PM PST

dek
I loved Big Cat Scripts until upgraded to Leopard, just cannot get it to work and cannot find any reference to it and Leopard, anyone have any luck?
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Big Cat Troubleshooting ReportLeopard - Version: 1.0.1, 3/19/2008 03:34PM PST

dek
I loved Big Cat Scripts until upgraded to Leopard, just cannot get it to work and cannot find any reference to it and Leopard, anyone have any luck?
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Big Cat ReviewIt is extremely… - Version: 1.0, 3/11/2003 03:39AM PST

heb
rare that I express my views here at VersionTracker, but this thing has actually raised the usefuleness of Mac OS X by several notches! It finally opens up a whole arena of possibilities in the areas where Mac OS X has been very weak: Ever since I started with Mac OS X, I have felt limited by the lack of productivity features that could be had in Mac OS 9. FruitMenu and some other utilities somewhat helped, but Big Cat provides real power to the contextual menu user interface! Finally, it is now easy to do things like: "Make new folder here in the file tree", "open a terminal at this location in the file tree", "compress this file", "convert this file from ISO8859-1 to Mac", "Check or Edit the Creator and Type codes of this file", "Move this file to the location of choice", .... and these examples were only for the Finder! This utility provides the ulitimate plug-in architecture for contextual menus, namely script files. Running a script under Big Cat is also extremely much faster than making the script into a droplet and drop files onto it, since there is no overhead of starting an application (the droplet application). I would like to encourage people to share your useful scripts. The Big Cat develper is interested to post them at his site (http://ranchero.com/bigcat/). I have a number of scripts that I intend to publish once I get some time to document and make a site for them. As for compatibility, it works fine in my installation together with a number of other utilities such as: FruitMenu, Youpi Key, PTHPasteBoard, ScriptMenu, LaunchBar, XRay, Zingg! If I may wish for enhancements, it would be a possibility to sort scripts into categories and or with separator lines. And perhaps even making the list dependable on (context sensitive to) what application that currently is the active one!
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