Pashua mac3/22/2023 Next thing you know, I’ll be writing about Fred Allen. Having linked to posts from 20, I think it’s time to stop with the trip down memory lane. However, the sandboxed version needs to ask you for permission for certain operations, and if you find this annoying, you should get the non-App Store version. If you prefer the safety of the OS X sandbox, you should get the App Store version. Note that the App Store version is sandboxed, while the non-App Store trial and full versions are not sandboxed. Be aware that there are some differences between the versions. Unlike Pashua, Xee isn’t free, but it’s only $4, and you can get it either directly from its developer, Dag Ågren, or from the Mac App Store. Xee has lots of nice shortcuts for flipping quickly through folders of images and it uses Phil Harvey’s great ExifTool library for displaying metadata in a sidebar. With Preview getting faster, the Finder’s maximum icon size getting larger, and the introduction of QuickLook, Xee fell by the wayside. When I returned to the Mac in 2005, I used Xee all the time because it was faster and more flexible than Preview and its display of images was larger than you could get in the Finder’s icon view. Xee is a lightweight app for browsing image files. Later in the afternoon James Muspratt reminded me of Do you still use Finder to browse/preview photos? Anything better than Xee? I’m leaving Aperture for files and folders. Pashua, which Jason didn’t know about, could have condensed his four input windows into one. I was reminded of Pashua when I read this post from Jason Snell, in which he wraps Marco Arment’s audio file encoder script in AppleScript and uses AppleScript’s display dialog command to generate a series of windows for collecting input from the user. Because Pashua has nice defaults, you don’t always have to define every geometric property of every graphical element, but there’s still some trial and error involved in getting the parts exactly where you want them. The results of your interaction with the window are then accessible as items in the dialog dictionary: dialog, dialog, and so on. Here’s how the window above is defined in Python: python: While Pashua creates a nice GUI, it is itself configured entirely through text, with each element’s position and/or size defined numerically rather than by drawing as it’s done in Xcode. I’ve been using it since 2008 at least, most recently to define the interface to my SnapSCP script for saving and uploading screenshots.
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