Cordless Dog

Mac & iOS Software.
Est. 2009.

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Stay 1.4 has been released!

This release features support for Apple Silicon Macs and compatibility improvements for macOS 11 Big Sur.

https://t.co/8XzYX7CpU4

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@rossgrady I’d prefer to not request this info, but there’s no way for me to remove these fields with my current payment processor unfortunately.

For what it’s worth, I’ve had customers report success putting dummy info into these fields. Alternatively, Stay is available on the App Store.

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Stay 1.4b3 has been released:

https://t.co/WAd2FB5HDh

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Here’s a quick update about the current status of Stay on Apple Silicon Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur:

https://t.co/rfzNIHnlJb

TLDR: we’ve released a beta version of Stay 1.4 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs. Download link in post.

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@ultratiem Stay 1.4 is in development at the moment and will add native Apple Silicon support. We’re aiming for a release early in the new year.

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Stay 1.3 has been released!

https://t.co/H94dvmGuVx

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@EnzoCastStream Can confirm it will have a new Big Sur-style icon.

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@thatsthequy @gummadi @twostraws @iAWriter @alfredapp @jamesthomson @sublimehq @panic So long as Apple continues to provide the Accessibility permission in macOS, Stay will continue to work.

The work required to support each new macOS release has been pretty minimal for a while now, so hopefully that trend continues.

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@daniyal_h1 There’s no functional difference at the moment, and we don’t expect that to change with Big Sur.

For what it’s worth though, the version from our website will recognise an App Store purchase and run fully registered, so you can always switch if needed.

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@rrenteria We’re working on an update that has some minor improvements for Big Sur at the moment, but the current version (1.3) should run fine on Big Sur for the most part. Are you getting an error message when launching Stay?

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@StayPuftZombie This isn’t something Stay can do at the moment unfortunately, but it’s a very common feature request so it’s on my radar.

Post-Stay 1.3 I’m spending some time modernising Stay’s 10-year-old codebase, which will hopefully make it easier to tackle larger changes like this.

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@Durosity Happy to help with this but it might be easier without Twitter’s character limit. Would you mind sending a quick email to [email protected] so we can follow up there?

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@round No worries at all! If you find that there’s something you’re not able to do with Stay’s current AppleScript support, please let me know. I’ve been wanting to improve Stay’s scriptability for years.

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@round Stay’s AppleScript dictionary includes most of Stay’s menu commands, including storing and restoring windows. If you need to automate it from the command line, you can use osascript, e.g.

osascript -e 'tell application "Stay" to restore all windows'

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@mccabep Hi Paul, apologies for the delayed response! There are a few different things that can cause problems restoring windows when reconnecting a docking station. It might be easier without Twitter’s character limit. Would you mind dropping us a line at [email protected]?

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@round What sort of actions would you like to be able to automate?

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@round Thanks for the kind words!

Stay’s automation support is limited to its very basic AppleScript dictionary. You can see what actions are scriptable by opening up Script https://t.co/pZIUbnw1KW, selecting “Open Dictionary…” from the File menu, then selecting Stay in the list.

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@Armen52 Thanks so much for the kind words, it’s great to know you’re finding Stay useful!

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@SurprisingEdge That’s so great to hear! It seemed to improve reliability in my test cases, but you never really know whether it’s going to make a difference until other people start using it.