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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 run in the background
- Apps can print script output into a text window
What's new in this version:
- Now possible to create applications that run with privileges *and* have Text Output
- Profiles now store custom application icons
- Fixed bug where buttons would not be enabled after a valid profile was loaded
- Custom application icons are now correctly labeled
- There is now a "Select Custom Icon" menu item
- Fixed bug where custom dragged icons would leave the icon image highlighted
- File Types and Suffixes list now displays the appropriate icons for entries
- File Types editor window is now a sheet
- Updated documentation and examples
- Various bug fixes and interface refinements
- All those that made Platypus possible are now rightly credited
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. 10.3 recommended.
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Download Links:
Download Platypus Version 2.7 (File Size: 550k)
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Download Platypus Current Version (File Size: 2.0M)
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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Once again VT have an outdated download link to V3.1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.