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Product Description:
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:
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:
- Now both Platypus and Platypus-generated apps require Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
- Interface streamlined and improved
- Overhauled entire source code backend.
- Optimized binaries of Platypus and Platypus-generated apps. Both are now leaner, meaner and slimmer than before.
- New file-based Profiles feature
- New application icon and new icon presets for generated apps
- New Web Output mode. Scripts can generate HTML which is rendered in a WebKit view in the Platypus-generated application
- New option to configure text size, font and color for Text Output mode
- New option to send arguments to script interpreter
- New option to disable passing path to app as first argument to script
- New "Secure script" encryption method
- Command line tool now has complete feature parity with the Platypus app
- Command line tool can now load Platypus profiles
- Command line tool now installed/uninstalled through Platypus Preferences
- New "Estimated final app size" reporting feature
- "Show Shell Command" option now correctly adds icon parameters
- Fixed bug where "Run Script in Terminal" option failed to escape script path
- Fixed bug with reversed LSMinimumSystemVersion property in Info.plist of generated applications
- Fixed bug where the same file could be added multiple times to Bundled Files list
- Fixed memory leak in Platypus-generated apps where a large amount of text output would cause the application to crash
- New and better man page for command line tool
- Updated and improved documentation
- Updated to latest IconFamily class code for icon generation
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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Doesn't launch anymore on 10.3.9 - Version: 3.3, 2/25/2006 08:39AM PST
viacontact1
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- Doesn't launch anymore on 10.3.9
Download Link is Wrong - Again - Version: 3.3, 2/25/2006 06:02AM PST
nick1394
Once again VT have an outdated download link to V3.1
Follow the link to the Developer's site for the correct download.
Come on VT this happens far too often. At least check your links before posting them.
Follow the link to the Developer's site for the correct download.
Come on VT this happens far too often. At least check your links before posting them.
3.2 - Version: 3.1, 9/12/2005 10:10AM PST
amcgee
Version 3.2 is available:
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/files/software/platypus.zip
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/files/software/platypus.zip
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New 3.3 doesn't launch at all.