>Most of the sample widgets I've seen, I'd rather >seo them available as menubar widgets instead.
Come on Chris - that's a bit like dismissing something just because there's only a poxy hello world example, and why on earth would anyone just want to print hello world? >I dunno, this is slick, but I'm still underwhelmed for some reason. Maybe >it's my deep-seated aversion to software skins & related wacky interface >shenanigans that usually comes up with such software (mp3 players, etc). But it's not skins. It's a way to create guis for little gobbets of functionality. Yes there's the script menu, the BigCat contextual script menu (Brent Simmon's more important bit of code ;), LaunchBar, DragThing, YoupiKey, QuicKey, KeyQuencer, ScriptGui, ShellShell and others which allow you to trigger scripts but none of them offer much by way of returning info to the user and none of them (DragThing half-excepted) let you create your own interface to work with. Oh, not forgetting AppleScriptStudio, but well, hmmm. Konfabulator is not just Kaleidoscope. What it is most like is Prefab Player or WestCodeSoft's OneClick <http://www.westcodesoft.com/oneclick/> (quite simply the finest scripting productivity tool ever). Of course, Konfabulator doesn't allow users to simply (and robustly) record actions like OneClick did, nor does it offer a built-in widget to allow gui-based construction of further widgets - but they're working on that last bit. Although it doesn't appear to have any OSA hooks, you can invoke shell commmands which return strings, so you could fire off perl from your widgets [frantic attempt to bring things on topic] Not that I've been able to actually use it (despite asking to beta it since last September) cos I'm still on 10.1.5.
