OSA Menu

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What is OSA Menu?

The OSA Menu is an iconic system menu (like the Help menu) that appears on the right side of the menu bar. Its menu items are scripts: choose an item from the menu and the script will run. Some commands are always available, and some are only available within particular applications. 

Generally the target of the script is the active application, and scripts that operate on the user selection are particularly useful. Scripts in the OSA Menu act like extensions to the command set of the application. 

The main advantage to scripts in the menu is that you can call them up with one mouse click without leaving the current application. This is most useful in applications that are scriptable (such as the Finder and Aladdin Systems' StuffIt Deluxe & Lite), but require you to switch to another application. BUT NO MORE!! Now you can just choose the script you want to run from the OSA Menu.

The scripts live in a folder called "Scripts" in your System folder, and each application gets its own subfolder of the "Scripts" folder with the scripts specific to that application as well as a "Universal Scripts" folder for scripts that you wish to access in all applications.

Rosenthol, Leonard. (1994). OSA Menu 1.0.1 Docs. Electronic Document.


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Architecture


68K + PPC (FAT)



System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0





Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

  • System 7.0
  • 68040
  • OSA compliant scripting language
    • (ie. Apple Script, Userland Frontier, QuicKeys 3, etc.)


Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II





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