AppleScript for Quicken

Question

Will Quicken ever bring back AppleScript, I would love to be able to script and automate some things to speed up reconcile process and jumping to certain accounts and fields.

mybank2002 · Answer

Thank you everyone for your thoughtful replies and help.

Perry Smith · Answer

I've been asking the same question today.  A post on Ask Different[1] mentions a Javascript alternative that Apple appears to be toying with.  Several years ago, they did MacRuby[2] but that seems to have been abandoned.

I'm going to check out Keyboard Maestro.

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/281092/applescript-alternatives
 [2] http://macruby.org

p.s. I've seen people able to create links (I think) but I don't see how to do that

mybank2002 · Answer

Yes, I am comfortable doing this and have them all assigned to each account. It is less accurate and a bit slower than built in AppleScript though. Screen images seem to do better for this than anchoring to the corner though since I use Quicken through a sync on different computers.

It would be neat to see the different things you have programmed using Keyboard Maestro. I am sure some ideas would be sparked for me. 

Yup I was sad to see Sal go and I shared a lot of your sentiments and with Shortcuts on the Mac you are right I can see they are trying to implement other things. Sad thing is nothing has even come close to what AppleScript can do. Automator  was cool and tried to bring automation to even more people like AppleScript originally intended to do.

You might recall that with I think Mavericks Apple did show love to AppleScript allowing it to integrate more tightly into code and have more access to apps and code. I do understand your point though and basically anyway to get under the hood a bit more or even allow end users to create more shortcuts to different things would be great by putting more drop down menus to things users create would help a great deal.

That way we can program our own shortcuts with other apps and grab aspects of the application that show up in menus rather than silly hacks I am currently doing to try to achieve the same thing with less than consistent results.

Thank you all for your comments and help.