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AppleScript Tutorials

AppleScript Tutorials
Author Name   Ben Waldie
Total Movies   97
ISBN   1889347477
Duration   6 Hours
 

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AppleScript is an powerful but easy to use scripting language that allows you to control applications on a Macintosh operating systems and even on mac osx. Using AppleScript, will enable you to processes tasks quickly and error free, ensure consistency. It can also batch run workflows and perform many other tasks and also carry out actions on remotely accessed macs, tasks can be carried out unattended , and even cross-platform scripting. Author Ben Waldie carefully explains all of these capabilities. Find out how to unlock the power of your mac by watching these AppleScript tutorials.


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Introduction
 About this CD
 What is AppleScript?
 What is AppleScript good for?
 Companies using AppleScript
 What is installed with AppleScript?

AppleScript Basics
 What is an Apple Event?
 What is OSA?
 What is Object Oriented?
 Scripting vs. Programming
 Different Types of Scripts
 Scriptable Applications

Introduction to the Script Editor
 What is the Script Editor and where is it located?
 Buttons
 Event Log
 Result Window
 AppleScript formatting
 Default window size
 Saving a Script
 Running a Script

Language
Application Dictionaries
Vocabulary
Scripting Addition Dictionaries
Application terminology vs. Core Language

Recording
Recordable applications
Recording
Recording vs. writing

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)
AppleScriptís Syntax
Statements
Commands
Expressions
Objects
Ways to refer to an object
Object properties

Tell Statements
Tell statements
Nested tell statements
Cross network tell statements

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)
Get
Set
Data types and classes
Coercion

Variables
What is a variable?
It and Me
Global and Local variables
Result variable

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)
Operators
Commenting
Continuation
If/then/else statements
Repeat loops
Repeat loop example

Scripting applications
Activating an application
Quark Xpress Demo

Finder scripting
Finder as an application
Finder objects
Recording Finder Scripts
Path names and aliases
Finder Demo 1
Finder Demo 2

User interaction
Display dialog
Getting user entered text
Choose file
Choose folder
Choose application
Drag and drop

Error Handling
Compile errors
Try/on error/end try
Beeps and Display Dialogs
Timeouts:
Using the Result Window and Event Log
Stopping a Script with an error number ñ128
Commenting out lines

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)
Stopping a Script
Properties
Attachable applications

Handlers
Handlers
Declaring values in handlers
Subroutine handlers and Command Handlers
Recursion
Calling handlers from other Scripts

Script objects
Writing Script objects
Running Script objects
Loading Script objects

High powered Scripting
Accessing "Hidden" capabilities of Applications
Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
3rd party scripting applications
What to do when an application is not Scriptable
Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
Building applications with FaceSpan
System Scripting Tools

Other uses for AppleScript
Scripting for the web, CGI
Scriptable Speech

Getting started
AppleScript books
AppleScript classes
Web sites
Help modules

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