Click “Continue”, and then click “Install” and everything will be done for you automatically!
In addition to the some “Read Me” documents and the OSARunner application, the actual OSA Menu extension will be installed into your Extensions folder (which is in your System folder). That's why you have to restart your Mac, so you'll be all ready to use OSA Menu.
System Requirements
OSA Menu requires System 7.0 (or later) and an OSA compliant scripting language (AppleScript, Userland Frontier, QuicKeys 3, tclScript, etc.). OSA Menu is 32-bit clean, ‘040 cache, PowerMac, AV and virtual memory compatible. In other words, as long as you have System 7.0 (or later) and a scripting language it will work!
Description
The OSA Menu is an iconic system menu (like the Help menu) that appears on the right side of the menu bar. Its menu items are scripts: choose an item from the menu and the script will run. Some commands are always available, and some are only available within particular applications.
Generally the target of the script is the active application, and scripts that operate on the user selection are particularly useful. Scripts in the OSA Menu act like extensions to the command set of the application.
The main advantage to scripts in the menu is that you can call them up with one mouse click without leaving the current application. This is most useful in applications that are scriptable (such as the Finder, StuffIt Lite, FileMaker, and many others), but require you to switch to another application. BUT NO MORE!! Now you can just choose the script you want to run from the OSA Menu.
The scripts live in a folder called "Scripts" in your System folder, and each application gets its own subfolder of the "Scripts" folder with the scripts specific to that application as well as a "Universal Scripts" folder for scripts that you wish to access in all applications.
Troubleshooting
I hope that you won't have any problems with OSA Menu, but if you do, you can contact me using any of the following means:
Leonard Rosenthol
AppleLink: MACgician
America Online: MACgician
Internet: leonardr@netcom.com
*** DO NOT CONTACT ALADDIN SYSTEMS ABOUT THIS PRODUCT ***
They have nothing to do with it, other than letting me release to you for free, so please send all comments, suggestions, complaints, large sums of money, etc. to me personally!
Version History
1.0 - First public release (1/21/94)
1.0.1 - Minor update (5/9/94)
Fixed the famous "-108 error" when running a script in the Finder
Improved general stability and memory management
Script properties are now updated correctly
1.0.2 - Feature addition update (x/x/95)
ADDED PREFERENCES! (See “What’s New in OSA Menu” for details)
When an error occurs, you can now open the script for editing!
Fixed a bug when run in conjunction with “DoubleTrouble”.
Option/Shift selecting items with menu key equivalents now works!
Errors that occur when running a script are now reported nicely.
Added explicit support for PreFab Player™ & its doMenu command
You can now run scripts from OSAMenu while they are open for editing!