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AppleScript

AppleScript is an easy-to-use scripting language that allows you to control applications on a Macintosh. With AppleScript, you can speed up processes, reduce user error, and ensure consistency. It also enables automated workflow and routine tasks, unattended operation 24 hours a day, and even cross-platform scripting. Author Ben Waldie carefully explains all of these capabilities and more in this Virtual Training Company tutorial. You can begin learning right away by clicking one of the links below.

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 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?

AppleScript formatting

Default window size

Saving a Script

Running a Script

Application Dictionaries

Scripting Addition Dictionaries

Application terminology vs. Core Language

Recordable applications

Recording vs. writing

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)

AppleScripts Syntax

Ways to refer to an object

Object properties

Tell Statements

Tell statements

Nested tell statements

Cross network tell statements

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)

Data types and classes

What is a variable?

Global and Local variables

Result variable

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)

If/then/else statements

Repeat loop example

Scripting applications

Activating an application

Quark Xpress Demo

Finder scripting

Finder as an application

Recording Finder Scripts

Path names and aliases

User interaction

Getting user entered text

Choose application

Try/on error/end try

Beeps and Display Dialogs

Using the Result Window and Event Log

Stopping a Script with an error number -128

Commenting out lines

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)

Stopping a Script

Attachable applications

Declaring values in handlers

Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers

Calling handlers from other Scripts

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

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