![]() ![]() Late Night Software will continue making UI Browser available and supporting it on a best-effort basis for as long as there is a demand for the software. UI Browser’s source code will not be released as open-source. Pfiddlesoft ui browser upgrade UI Browser 1.4. UI Browser is based on the PFiddlesoft Frameworks, including the PFAssistive and PFEventTaps Frameworks. UI Browser is no longer available for purchase. The frameworks are written using Objective-C, and they support 64-bit architectures using reference counted memory management and ARC. I am currently making arrangements for a permanent download site for the version 3.0.2 disk image for licensed users and for public access to the source code.īill has graciously agreed to allow Late Night Software to continue making UI Browser available to those that purchased it before it was withdrawn. There’s nothing else like it on the market, and I’d like to thank Bill Cheeseman for his amazing work on this application over the years. I think it’s more realistic to hope another indie developer or studio picks up UI Browser and continues developing for as long as possible. ![]() If UI scripting is worth keeping in MacOS, UI Browser is worth Apple buying. It’s like Apple only did the infrastructure of making UI scripting happen, but Bill Cheeseman did the work of making it usable. UI Browser seems like a tool Apple should have purchased long ago. The only downside: scripting the user interface this way is tedious ( very verbose) at best, and inscrutable at worst. The Mac scripting/automation world will be a lesser place w/o him, but he has earned his retirement in every way possible. Bill was one of the few people whose advice/input I trusted implicitly. He is a mostly unsung giant in those communities & everyone in those communities owes him all the gratitude we can muster. It is impossible to list or even really comprehend all the ways Bill Cheeseman contributed to AppleScript and scripting/automation on the mac in general. Thanks to Bill for his many contributions to the Mac community over the years, particularly in the areas of AppleScript and automation. Now that I am 79 years old, it is time to bring this good work to a conclusion. UI Browser has been a labor of love for me, its sole developer for almost twenty years. Thereafter, it will no longer be possible to download or purchase UI Browser, and product support will no longer be available. On the end-of-life retirement date, the PFiddlesoft website will be closed. The current release of UI Browser, version 3.0.2, will not be updated. UI Browser will reach its end of life and be retired on October 17, 2022.
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