Just a quick note: I upgraded to Big Sur a few months ago. The scripts appear to need no changes from the current edition of the book.
I may still publish a new edition of the book, but the only change would be the boilerplate that mentions what operating system the book is for. Instead of referencing “macOS Catalina” on the indicia page, it would reference “macOS Big Sur”. Everything else would remain the same.
And I may not do this, because of the ever-present potential of meeting new bugs in either the Smashwords or Amazon review process when uploading a new file. In programming, “if it works, don’t fix it” is often very good advice, especially when dealing with what are essentially black boxes where it is difficult to know how the input affect the output.
In fact, having written that, I have convinced myself to not upload a new version with just the boilerplate changed. I’ll save that effort for when Monterey comes out.
More Astounding Scripts updates
- Catalina: iTunes Library XML
- What does Catalina mean for 42 Astounding Scripts?
- Random colors in your ASCII art
- 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
- 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
- I’ve updated 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina, and added “one more thing”.
- Catalina vs. Mojave for Scripters
- More detail about the issues I ran into updating the scripts from 42 Astounding Scripts for Catalina.
- Two more pages with the topic Astounding Scripts updates, and other related pages
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