New features for macOS Monterey

[cmsj]

• Expose a Shortcuts intent for running Lua
• Add hs.shortcuts to enumerate and run Shortcuts

[latenitefilms]

If these get added, will Hammerspoon still be able to run on Mojave?

[asmagill]

I've noted in the past that I'm willing to do some work to try and maintain compatibility with Catalina for a while yet (my iMac can't run anything newer, and I don't use it often enough to justify replacing it any time soon -- it's mostly used as a file and print server).

I suspect that any wrappers or run-time checks I'll need to add would also work for Mojave, though I may need you to test that for me as and when it occurs.

[latenitefilms]

Can do! I'm hoping to jump across to Big Sur or Monterey at some point, but I kinda just want to wait until new MacBook Pro's arrive first.

[cmsj]

The second one - enumerating and running Shortcuts from Hammerspoon, will definitely be fine with older OSes - it needs to happen by communicating with the Shortcuts Events process over Apple Events, so there's really no SDK dependency there at all.

The former one..... I have no idea yet, it'll need a static Intents definition file in the app bundle which I guess the older OSes will just ignore, and a couple of classes to handle the incoming Intents. I would guess that the SDK will let those exist in the code on older releases and we'll just have to use some @available macros to avoid instantiating them.

I've requested a WWDC Lab appointment for this Friday to talk to the Shortcuts team, to ask this kind of thing, so if people have any other questions about Shortcuts and Hammerspoon, now is definitely the time to ask them :)

[cmsj]

I've got hs.shortcuts implemented and working, but I'm currently struggling with exposing an action to Shortcuts. As far as I can tell I've got everything set up right, but it's not appearing in the Shortcuts app. More investigation to be done I guess!

[latenitefilms]

Maybe something to do with code-signing or entitlements?

[cmsj]

Yeah it was signing. I'm getting closer to having it working, but right now the limiting factor is how long it takes me to generate a properly signed and notarised build. I may end up making some more build script changes just to try and speed this up!

[cmsj]

@latenitefilms do you use release.sh? I might want to pull stuff like Sentry uploading out of Xcode scripts.

[latenitefilms]

I do use release.sh, but it's a modified version - where I just manually try and bring across any tweaks you make to the Hammerspoon version.

Whilst I've got you though... one thing that I haven't solved is that for whatever reason, I need to run the script twice for the build number to update correctly. Any ideas why that might be the case?