> cd to ... version 2.0 (ported to objective-c)

Jay Tuley

Saturday, February 17. 2007

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> cd to ... version 2.0 (ported to objective-c)

So I had this applescript, I wrote a long time ago, that i used for open a terminal window from the finder. It was a compiled applet that you could launch from the finder toolbar. The biggest problem (especially on my intel laptop) is that it’s kind of slow to launch before it executes.

We’ll now with version 2.0, it is super fast, because it’s been ported to objective-c and sends apple-events by utilizing the appscript bridge on macforge by HAS.

I have a compiled universal binary and source of this application on google code it’s MIT licensed, just to keep things simpler since the appscript framework is MIT licensed, and my code is less than 20 lines so I’m not concerned that it’s not a copyleft licensed.

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Have you seen this?

http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/

#1 lwu (Homepage) on 2007-02-17 10:24 (Reply)

No, but i was aware that there are a ton of scripts out there that pretty much do the same thing. Like I said I wrote the original >cd to.. a long time ago, and probably around the same time as OpenTerminalHere since it was when toolbar scripts were announced by apple. The functional difference between cd to.. and openterminahere was that i cleared the cd command when you changed directories so you started with a blank terminal window. I also had my own routine to get the path from an applescript alias that i wrote it before the posix path vocabulary was added to Scripting Additions so i’m a little iffy on the timeline being so long ago.

The only reason why there is a 2.0 now was due to me trying out appscript, which allows one to use apple events easily from objective-c (preleopard) and worked extremely well and makes its launch time instantaneous unlike toolbar scripts (I noticed on that page a link to another version of openterminal that stays open in the background to avoid the launch penalty, the new cd to… works simpler than this and is at least as fast as). The other benefit came from the ability to use c routines which made resolving alias possible in column view (which doesn’t work in the OpenTerminalHere or my original >cd to…).

#2 Jay (Homepage) on 2007-02-17 20:38 (Reply)

Thanks for the update! I use >cd to… regularly and am happy to see it work so much more quickly now.

#3 Joey Hagedorn on 2007-02-19 04:21 (Reply)

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