AppleScript: The Definitive Guide
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

Author: Matt Neuburg

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2006-01-04

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 144937915X

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Mac users everywhere--even those who know nothing about programming--are discovering the value of the latest version of AppleScript, Apple's vastly improved scripting language for Mac OS X Tiger. And with this new edition of the top-selling AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, anyone, regardless of your level of experience, can learn to use AppleScript to make your Mac time more efficient and more enjoyable by automating repetitive tasks, customizing applications, and even controlling complex workflows. Fully revised and updated--and with more and better examples than ever--AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition explores AppleScript 1.10 from the ground up. You will learn how AppleScript works and how to use it in a variety of contexts: in everyday scripts to process automation, in CGI scripts for developing applications in Cocoa, or in combination with other scripting languages like Perl and Ruby. AppleScript has shipped with every Mac since System 7 in 1991, and its ease of use and English-friendly dialect are highly appealing to most Mac fans. Novices, developers, and everyone in between who wants to know how, where, and why to use AppleScript will find AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition to be the most complete source on the subject available. It's as perfect for beginners who want to write their first script as it is for experienced users who need a definitive reference close at hand. AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition begins with a relevant and useful AppleScript overview and then gets quickly to the language itself; when you have a good handle on that, you get to see AppleScript in action, and learn how to put it into action for you. An entirely new chapter shows developers how to make your Mac applications scriptable, and how to give them that Mac OS X look and feel with AppleScript Studio. Thorough appendixes deliver additional tools and resources you won't find anywhere else. Reviewed and approved by Apple, this indispensable guide carries the ADC (Apple Developer Connection) logo.

AppleScript Finder Guide
AppleScript Finder Guide

Author: Apple Computer, Inc

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780201409109

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The essential guide to using AppleScript to control operations of the Macintosh Finder. Apple scripting language is like a "super macro" language that allows different programs to work together. With the information in this book, AppleScript can be used by programmers and power users to create even more powerful and integrated work environments.

AppleScript: The Missing Manual
AppleScript: The Missing Manual

Author: Adam Goldstein

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2005-01-31

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0596553102

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From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines. Famed for its similarity to English and its ease of integration with other programs, AppleScript is the perfect programming language for time-squeezed Mac fans. As beginners quickly realize, however, AppleScript has one major shortcoming: it comes without a manual.No more. You don't need a degree in computer science, a fancy system administrator title, or even a pocket protector and pair of nerdy glasses to learn the Mac's most popular scripting language; you just need the proper guide at your side. AppleScript: The Missing Manual is that guide.Brilliantly compiled by author Adam Goldstein, AppleScript: The Missing Manual is brimming with useful examples. You'll learn how to clean up your Desktop with a single click, for example, and how to automatically optimize pictures for a website. Along the way, you ll learn the overall grammar of AppleScript, so you can write your own customized scripts when you feel the need.Naturally, AppleScript: The Missing Manual isn't merely for the uninitiated scripter. While its hands-on approach certainly keeps novices from feeling intimidated, this comprehensive guide is also suited for system administrators, web and graphics professionals, musicians, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and others who need to learn the ins and outs of AppleScript for their daily work.Thanks to AppleScript: The Missing Manual, the path from consumer to seasoned script has never been clearer. Now you, too, can automate your Macintosh in no time.

AppleScript Language Guide
AppleScript Language Guide

Author: Apple Computer, Inc

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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Apple's definitive guide to the powerful AppleScript scripting language, thisbook provides essential information for Macintosh power users and programmerswho want to use AppleScript to write new scripts, modify existing scripts, orwrite scriptable applications.

AppleScript for Applications
AppleScript for Applications

Author: Ethan Wilde

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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Automate and streamline a Macintosh with AppleScript, Apple's extremely powerful and easy-to-use scripting language. AppleScript can be used to write scripts for popular Mac apps such as FileMaker Pro, Word, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress. Includes up-to-date info on using AppleScript with Mac OS X.

Learn AppleScript
Learn AppleScript

Author: Hamish Sanderson

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2010-07-10

Total Pages: 1085

ISBN-13: 1430223626

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AppleScript is an English-like, easy-to-understand scripting language built into every Mac. AppleScript can automate hundreds of AppleScript-able applications, performing tasks both large and small, complex and simple. Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X, Third Edition has been completely updated for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It's all here, with an emphasis on practical information that will help you solve any automation problem—from the most mundane repetitive tasks to highly integrated workflows of complex systems. Friendly enough for beginners, detailed enough for advanced AppleScripters Includes major contributions from expert AppleScripters: Emmanuel Levy, Harald Monihart, Ian Piper, Shane Stanley, Barry Wainwright, Craig Williams, and foreword by AppleScript inventor, William Cook

AppleScript in a Nutshell
AppleScript in a Nutshell

Author: Bruce W. Perry

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2001-06-06

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1491946369

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AppleScript in a Nutshell is the first complete reference to AppleScript, the popular programming language that gives both power users and sophisticated enterprise customers the important ability to automate repetitive tasks and customize applications. As the Macintosh continues to expand and solidify its base in the multimedia and publishing industries, AppleScript is the tool of choice on this platform for creating sophisticated time- and money-saving workflow applications (applets). These applets automate the processing and management of digital video, imaging, print, and web-based material. AppleScript is also gaining a foothold in scientific programming, as technical organizations adopt G4 CPU-based systems for advanced computing and scientific analysis. Finally, "power users" and script novices will find that AppleScript is a great everyday Mac programming tool, similar to Perl on Windows NT or Unix.In this well-organized and concise reference, AppleScript programmers will find: Detailed coverage of AppleScript Version 1.4 and beyond on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Complete descriptions of AppleScript language features, such as data types, flow-control statements, functions, object-oriented features (script objects and libraries), and other syntactical elements. Descriptions and hundreds of code samples on programming the various "scriptable" system components, such as the Finder, File Sharing, File Exchange, Network scripting, Web scripting, Apple System Profiler, the ColorSync program, and the numerous powerful language extensions called "osax" or scripting additions.Most other AppleScript books are hopelessly out of date. AppleScript in a Nutshell covers the latest updates and improvements with practical, easy to understand tips, including: Using AppleScript as a tool for distributed computing, an exciting development that Apple Computer calls "program linking over IP." Programmers can now do distributed computing with Macs over TCP/IP networks, including controlling remote applications with AppleScript and calling AppleScript methods on code libraries that are located on other machines. Using the Sherlock find application to automate web and network searching. Insights on scripting new Apple technologies such as Apple Data Detectors, Folder Actions, Keychain Access, and Apple Verifier.AppleScript in a Nutshell is a high-end handbook at a low-end price--an essential desktop reference that puts the full power of this user-friendly programming language into every AppleScript user's hands.

Apple Automator with AppleScript Bible
Apple Automator with AppleScript Bible

Author: Thomas Myer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 047060431X

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One-stop reference helps you get the most out of AppleScript and Automator One of the handiest ways to streamline your workload is to automate some of your most routine computer tasks. Mac users are lucky in that they have AppleScript and Automator automation tools built right in. This comprehensive guide shows you how to tap both these useful Mac features for Mac OS X and regularly perform such tasks as extracting unread e-mails from your Mail, scheduling workflows, and manually recording actions to create new automated routines. Brings you up to speed on Apple's built-in automation tools for Mac OS X, including a more thorough look at Automator than in many books, and shows you how you can automate many of your most repetitive or error-prone tasks Explains how to automate aspects of some of your favorite Mac features, such as iCal, Mail, iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD Covers how to manipulate files and folders; work with PDFs, emails, and Web pages; schedule workflows; set up watch folders; create and use variables; manually record actions; and create AppleScripts that further automate functions The instruction in this detailed guide will help you increase your productivity using Automator and AppleScript. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook
Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook

Author: Danny Goodman

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780966551419

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Make your Mac do what you want your Mac to do. This bestselling guide to Applescript by author Danny Goodman gives you everything you need to know to create scriptable applications. This edition includes in-depth coverage of the scriptable Finder, FileMaker Pro, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Excel, Hypercard, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, MacWrite Pro and TouchBase. AppleScript is an important facet of the new Apple OS 8.5. Click here to download the 1.5MB companion file (the disk not included with book). This book is featured in TECSoft's AppleScript training class at http://www.tecsoft.com.

The Tao of AppleScript
The Tao of AppleScript

Author: Derrick Schneider

Publisher: Hayden Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781568301150

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A succinct and friendly introduction to the AppleScript language. It is ideal for those who wish to customize applications, automate tedious tasks, or create a program without having to learn a programming language. From novice to scriptmaster, this helps the user discover this scripting language and obtain better control of their Macintosh.