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| Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app | |
Posted by: gingerbeardman on 2024-08-10 14:20:31
Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app ⌘I Get InfoA couple of days ago I was reading on Hacker News about a feature in some Linux window managers where they allow collections of tabs from different apps.
blog.gingerbeardman.com
I still dream of this weird task-based way of working, with apps like Stapler (1992, Patterson Software Works) and LaunchList (2009, Ali Rantakari) so I made my own take for modern macOS. You might like it because you will discover the classic Stapler app! Cheers! matt | |
| Posted by: akator70 on 2024-08-10 16:47:28 Very cool. I'm going to play with this later! | |
| Posted by: akator70 on 2024-08-10 19:08:34 Opps, duplicate post. | |
| Posted by: sstaylor on 2024-08-11 15:29:21 So, not SimStapler.  | |
| Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-08-11 16:04:19 This is nifty! | |
| Posted by: gingerbeardman on 2024-08-12 04:44:35 Cheers! @cheesestraws @sstaylor if I had a penny for every time somebody mentioned SimStapler, I'd have... five pennies! Happy to yank on that memory 🙂 | |
Posted by: Nixontheknight on 2024-08-12 13:14:34so, was it "aliases before aliases" or am I misreading it? | |
| Posted by: gingerbeardman on 2024-08-12 13:24:06 Sorry, I'm not totally clear about your question so forgive me if I'm answering the wrong thing. But classic Stapler was a wrapper for System 7 aliases, much like my modern Stapler is a wrapper for macOS security scoped bookmarks (they are the most modern form of aliases) HTH ps: I just added support for macOS 12, will release a new version soon. I know many people (usually me) hold back a few versions of macOS. | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-08-12 14:03:35so, was it "aliases before aliases" or am I misreading it? 'Aliases' under System 7 (and later - even now!) can mean two things: a data structure that contains all the information the system needs to find a file, and a file that contains that data structure (an alias file). The aliases the Finder creates when you do Create Alias is the latter, it creates a file that contains an alias data structure. But you can store and embed aliases in other ways too - it doesn't have to be within a dedicated alias file. Stapler kept a set of alias data structures inside its documents, so it's a kind of front-end to the Alias Manager, just as alias files are also a front-end to the Alias Manager. It didn't come before the alias manager; it used it in exactly the same way that the Finder did. Modern OS X, mongrel that it is, retains this dual character of aliases. So @gingerbeardman's new Stapler acts as a front-end to the strange mutated descendent of the Alias Manager that exists in modern OS X, much as the old one acted as a front-end to the System 7 Alias Manager. (I hope that answers the question you asked?) | |
| Posted by: gingerbeardman on 2024-08-12 14:56:03 Thanks. It even makes it more clear to me! 😂 | |
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