QuicKeys 3.5.3

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What is QuicKeys 3.5.3?

QuicKeys 3.0 was the long-time favorite Mac macro program, enabling you to assign complex tasks (a sequence of menu commands, type in dialog, etc.) to simple key commands. Three years later, QuicKeys 3.5 gives a welcome revamp to the classic’s user interface but doesn’t add much new functionality.

Beauty may be only skin deep, but QuicKeys 3.5 strives for visual appeal both inside and out. The new QuickPanel interface gives easy access to the QuicKeys in the universal macro set, the current macro set for the application, a toolbar editor, and a pop-up menu from which you can select other macro sets for applications.

Toolbars are the headline feature of QuicKeys 3.5. Taking a cue from WestCode Software’s OneClick, which pioneered button palettes on the Mac, QuicKeys now sports three toolbar styles. Embedded toolbars dock to any side of the screen. Floating toolbars can be dragged around the screen, to hover over any windows you may have open. Finally, Click- and-Go toolbars appear when you hit a keyboard shortcut, and then disappear after you make your selection. Unfortunately, they don’t pop up under your cursor. Buttons are customizable with a variety of prefab icons, or you can import your own PICT files. As with OneClick, you can turn on “tool tips” which briefly show the name of each button; however, QuicKeys lacks OneClick’s icon editor, and its toolbar palette shapes aren’t as flexible as OneClick’s.

The other main functional change in QuicKeys is the Batch Processor. This QuicKeys extension allows you to process items in a preset folder with any sequence of QuicKeys. The extension thoughtfully creates a log of operations and saves all the original files in the source folder. Unfortunately, QuicKeys’ file manipulation options are limited in regard to fine control and might persuade you to pass off most of the work to another apphcation or an AppleScript, which QuicKeys can call directly.

A friendly sequence editor and extension manager round out the package, along with an Apple Guide-based help file that seems to have problems searching for words in the help file. QuicKeys 3.5 proved stable enough, although it did have some cosmetic conflicts with the popular Aaron extension.
QuicKeys 3.5 has other problems. CE Software should have beefed up QuicKeys’ sparse text and file manipulation features. Other obvious holes include the Screen Ease extension, which has not been updated to handle multiple monitor resolutions, and the lack of a mechanism for switching among Open Transport settings. In fact, it’s surprising to see a product released without even a nod to the Internet’s existence.

QuicKeys remains one of the easiest-to-use automation programs for the Mac. It can make fast work of mundane tasks and retains one of the best interfaces for stringing together a few shortcuts, provided that the sequence does not get too complex. It also nicely complements scripting languages like AppleScript, which require that programs be savvy about Apple events. Now that QuicKeys has an interface worthy of 1996, we’d like to see its feature set reflect more of the tasks a modem Mac user encounters every day.

Rubin, Ross Scott. (November 1996). QuicKeys 3.5. MacAddict. (pg. 72).


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System Requirements

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Minimum Requirements

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