Currently Supported File Types:
Applescript Script, Applescript Text, Applescript Applications, Unix Shell Scripts, C, Objective-C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Verilog, VHDL, Tcl/Tk and Lua files
What's New
Version 1.11
- Added a badge on the dock icon which shows when the db is being updated
- Added a menu to the dock icon, right-click the icon in the dock to see it
- The dock menu shows the last date you updated the db and you can start an update from it
- "Open" button name changed to "Edit" to more closely reflect what it does
Note: you may have to reset the button on the toolbar due to this name change
- New tool in Tools menu to fix unix files that are not added to the db because of a missing file extension
- Moved the db file to ~/Library/Application Support/HAMSoft Engineering/ScriptLight/scriptLight.db
- New 7-day demo period for those of you who have tried ScriptLight before
- Several other small enhancements
About ScriptLight
ScriptLight does what Spotlight does not. ScriptLight allows you to search and manage source code files on your computer. Do you use applescript? Do you dabble in shell scripting? Lots of us use languages to write things for our computers. Maybe you use HTML or maybe you use JavaScript. Whatever you use ScriptLight will make it easy for you to search the actual code of your files so you can quickly find it and re-use it in your next project! ScriptLight also makes it easy for you to manage your code files with its other built-in functions.
With the number of files many of us have on our computer it becomes almost impossible to find code we have already created. Spotlight doesn't even allow us to search our Applescript code files and Spotlight doesn't index all of the folders that hold our other types of source code. Well now there's ScriptLight which allows you to have all of your code files in one place. You'll rediscover files you forgot you ever had!
Computer Requirements
ScriptLight will work on Macintosh computers with system software of MacOSX 10.4 and higher. ScriptLight is a "Universal Binary" application so it will work on both PPC and Intel based Macs.
Sections of the Main Window
Applescript Script, Applescript Text, Applescript Applications, Unix Shell Scripts, C, Objective-C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Verilog, VHDL, Tcl/Tk and Lua files
What's New
Version 1.11
- Added a badge on the dock icon which shows when the db is being updated
- Added a menu to the dock icon, right-click the icon in the dock to see it
- The dock menu shows the last date you updated the db and you can start an update from it
- "Open" button name changed to "Edit" to more closely reflect what it does
Note: you may have to reset the button on the toolbar due to this name change
- New tool in Tools menu to fix unix files that are not added to the db because of a missing file extension
- Moved the db file to ~/Library/Application Support/HAMSoft Engineering/ScriptLight/scriptLight.db
- New 7-day demo period for those of you who have tried ScriptLight before
- Several other small enhancements
About ScriptLight
ScriptLight does what Spotlight does not. ScriptLight allows you to search and manage source code files on your computer. Do you use applescript? Do you dabble in shell scripting? Lots of us use languages to write things for our computers. Maybe you use HTML or maybe you use JavaScript. Whatever you use ScriptLight will make it easy for you to search the actual code of your files so you can quickly find it and re-use it in your next project! ScriptLight also makes it easy for you to manage your code files with its other built-in functions.
With the number of files many of us have on our computer it becomes almost impossible to find code we have already created. Spotlight doesn't even allow us to search our Applescript code files and Spotlight doesn't index all of the folders that hold our other types of source code. Well now there's ScriptLight which allows you to have all of your code files in one place. You'll rediscover files you forgot you ever had!
Computer Requirements
ScriptLight will work on Macintosh computers with system software of MacOSX 10.4 and higher. ScriptLight is a "Universal Binary" application so it will work on both PPC and Intel based Macs.
Sections of the Main Window
How Does ScriptLight Work?
There are 2 tables in ScriptLight. One table, called the Search Folders Table, is where you add folders to ScriptLight. These are the folders that ScriptLight will search for your code files. When these folders are searched, ScriptLight creates a database of information for all of the source code files it finds. When you search for code or perform other functions, this is the database that is used. The second table, called the Scripts Table, displays the information from the database so you can see what you need to see. The Scripts table allows you to perform all of the functions available in ScriptLight.
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There are 2 tables in ScriptLight. One table, called the Search Folders Table, is where you add folders to ScriptLight. These are the folders that ScriptLight will search for your code files. When these folders are searched, ScriptLight creates a database of information for all of the source code files it finds. When you search for code or perform other functions, this is the database that is used. The second table, called the Scripts Table, displays the information from the database so you can see what you need to see. The Scripts table allows you to perform all of the functions available in ScriptLight.
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What are people saying about ScriptLight?
An Administrator form MacScripter.net
I just downloaded your app. Very cool and great job! This should go over very well in the scripting community.
A customer with over 4000 code files in ScriptLight
This is truly great stuff. Love it. Given it's efficiency with my early tests, I'm not straining ScriptLight at all. Everything seems to be working quite well too... I'm going to find this very useful.
Voted the #3 application by the Editors of Swinkle.net
http://www.swinkle.net/top
From an email I received
I've been using ScriptLight for a while now, and I must say, wuhu, I found some of my old shellscripts... almost think I love you! Very nice application.
From another customer
Hank, you are insane. Damm, the speed when running an update on the database is SUPER!
Why ScriptLight was created
I started programming with Applescript. What frustrated me most was as I got more into applescript I had a harder and harder time finding the applescript code that I had already written. When I would try to write a new applescript I wanted to re-use some of the applescript code that I had already written but I had no easy way of finding the code I needed. Spotlight doesn't index applescript code files so Spotlight was useless for this task. So I set out to find something to help me. I did find a few solutions but they were very expensive. That's when I decided to write my own program to help me and that's how ScriptLight started. I quickly learned that I wasn't the only person having these difficulties. So after several months of using ScriptLight just for my own personal use, I decided to release it as a program so others could benefit too. Then as my programming skills expanded I started using other languages, and ScriptLight naturally morphed into more than just a tool to search applescript files. Today ScriptLight has many languages that it handles and many more capabilities than just searching. Really, I don't know what I would do without it!
Download and try ScriptLight for free today!
An Administrator form MacScripter.net
I just downloaded your app. Very cool and great job! This should go over very well in the scripting community.
A customer with over 4000 code files in ScriptLight
This is truly great stuff. Love it. Given it's efficiency with my early tests, I'm not straining ScriptLight at all. Everything seems to be working quite well too... I'm going to find this very useful.
Voted the #3 application by the Editors of Swinkle.net
http://www.swinkle.net/top
From an email I received
I've been using ScriptLight for a while now, and I must say, wuhu, I found some of my old shellscripts... almost think I love you! Very nice application.
From another customer
Hank, you are insane. Damm, the speed when running an update on the database is SUPER!
Why ScriptLight was created
I started programming with Applescript. What frustrated me most was as I got more into applescript I had a harder and harder time finding the applescript code that I had already written. When I would try to write a new applescript I wanted to re-use some of the applescript code that I had already written but I had no easy way of finding the code I needed. Spotlight doesn't index applescript code files so Spotlight was useless for this task. So I set out to find something to help me. I did find a few solutions but they were very expensive. That's when I decided to write my own program to help me and that's how ScriptLight started. I quickly learned that I wasn't the only person having these difficulties. So after several months of using ScriptLight just for my own personal use, I decided to release it as a program so others could benefit too. Then as my programming skills expanded I started using other languages, and ScriptLight naturally morphed into more than just a tool to search applescript files. Today ScriptLight has many languages that it handles and many more capabilities than just searching. Really, I don't know what I would do without it!
Download and try ScriptLight for free today!
