Cordless Dog

Stay 1.4 has been released! This release features support for Apple Silicon Macs and compatibility improvements for macOS 11 Big Sur. cordlessdog.com/blog/2021/06/2…

@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.

Stay 1.4b3 has been released: cordlessdog.com/blog/2021/04/2…

Here’s a quick update about the current status of Stay on Apple Silicon Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur: cordlessdog.com/blog/2021/04/0… TLDR: we’ve released a beta version of Stay 1.4 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs. Download link in post.

@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.

Stay 1.3 has been released! cordlessdog.com/blog/2020/04/3…

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

@cordlessdog None. I was curious if it had a new icon 😉

@CordlessDog will there be a macOS Big Sur update coming soon?

@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.

Indie macOS apps I rely on every day: ✍️ iA Writer (from @iAWriter) 👨‍🔧 Alfred (from @alfredapp) 🧮 PCalc (from @jamesthomson) 🔡 Sublime Text (from @sublimehq) 🚚 Transmit (from @panic) 👇 Reply with your favorites – I'm keen to try more!

@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.

@cordlessdog is there a difference between the version in the Mac App Store and the version directly from the website? And will that remain consistent going forward with Big Sur?

@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?

@cordlessdog any plans to support Big Sur? It doesn't open 🤦‍♂️ thanks!

@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.

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

@cordlessdog hey I trialed Stay a while ago but it didn't quite work for me. I was wanting to try 1.3 as it seems to fix some of the issues I was having, is there any way to reset the trial period?

@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.

@cordlessdog this is perfect! Thank you so much for getting back to me

@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'

@cordlessdog just the standard ones like “Reposition Windows” and “Remember a Window Position” – basically any of the core shortcuts!

@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 support@cordlessdog.com?

@cordlessdog I love and have used STAY for a very long time. I am having trouble with the app restoring window configs when I connect with my Plugable USB-C docking station. Running Catalina 10.15.3. Thank you.

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

@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 Editor.app, selecting “Open Dictionary…” from the File menu, then selecting Stay in the list.

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

@cordlessdog Just want to say thanks for continuing to develop Stay. It saves so much time on resizing and re-arranging windows when my laptop goes from "docked" to "un-docked" and back again between meetings. It works remarkably well. Thanks!

@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.

@cordlessdog The window size matching is a gamechanger for me! It finally puts my chrome windows back where I want them! ❤️