Clipper script
2020 August 29/6:00 AM
If you want to play your songs backward, there’s a script for that in 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh.- Catalina: iTunes Library XML
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What does Catalina mean for 42 Astounding Scripts? - Random colors in your ASCII art
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One of the great things about writing your own scripts is that when you need new functionality, you can add it. I needed random colors in a single-character ASCII art image. It was easy to add to the asciiArt script. Here’s how. - Avoiding lockFocus when drawing images in Swift on macOS
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Apple’s recommendation is to avoid lockFocus if you’re not creating images directly for the screen. Here are some examples from my own Swift scripts. You can use this to draw text into an image, and to resize images. - 42 Astounding Scripts, Catalina edition
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I’ve updated 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina, and added “one more thing”. - Catalina vs. Mojave for Scripters
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More detail about the issues I ran into updating the scripts from 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina. - Check42 for verifying Astounding Scripts
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If you’ve been wanting to type scripts in from the book but were worried about typos, this script will help you find errors in any scripts you’ve typed in from 42 Astounding Scripts. - Big Sur and Astounding Scripts
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Big Sur does not appear to need any changes to any of the scripts in the book. - Astounding Scripts on Monterey
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Monterey removes Python 2, which means that you’ll need to replace it if you’re still using any Python 2 scripts; there’s also a minor change with Layer Windows and GraphicConverter. - Padmath in Ventura
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Padmath stops working in Ventura because bc, which it relies on, now has a built-in abs function.
