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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:
- Droppable Platypus apps can now execute script again when new files are dropped
- Text settings now available for Progress Bar output mode
- Command line tool now supports setting text output properties such as font, color and encoding
- Command line tool has achieved feature parity with GUI application
- Command line tool now correctly handles relative paths
- Change in profile format to make it more transparent and human-readable/editable
- "Show Shell Command" now shows all parameters for command line app
- Platypus apps now default to remaining open after execution
- Secure bundled script option now correctly excludes Development Version save option
- Fixed bug from 4.1 where text settings failed to be applied
- Fixed memory leak and bugs in privileged execution mode
- Fixed bug in path text field autocompletion
- Updated documentation to reflect recent features
- Minor interface tweaks and fixes
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.