OS X Mountain Lion Bible

Enabling the Script Menu

After you've built up a collection of scripts that you run frequently, you're not going to want to switch to AppleScript Editor every time you want to run one. This reason is precisely why OS X includes the Script menu (which displays as a stylized S icon).

The Script menu sits in the menu bar at the top of the OS X screen. You can run any of the listed scripts by choosing the script from the Script menu. To activate the Script menu, run the AppleScript Editor application from the /Applications/Utilities folder, open the Preferences dialog box by choosing AppleScript Editor⇒Preferences or pressing +, (comma), going to the General pane, selecting the Show Script Menu in Menu bar option, and closing the Preferences dialog box. (You also can change the default script editor, if you find a third-party editor you prefer, in the AppleScript Editor Preference dialog box's General pane.)