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Description
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. |
01 Introduction
0101 About this CD
0102 What is AppleScript?
0103 What is AppleScript good for?
0104 Companies using AppleScript
0105 What is installed with AppleScript?
02 AppleScript Basics
0201 What is an Apple Event?
0202 What is OSA?
0203 What is Object Oriented?
0204 Scripting vs. Programming
0205 Different Types of Scripts
0206 Scriptable Applications
03 Introduction to the Script Editor
0301 What is the Script Editor and where is it located?
0302 Buttons
0303 Event Log
0304 Result Window
0305 AppleScript formatting
0306 Default window size
0307 Saving a Script
0308 Running a Script
04 Language
0401 Application Dictionaries
0402 Vocabulary
0403 Scripting Addition Dictionaries
0404 Application terminology vs. Core Language
05 Recording
0501 Recordable applications
0502 Recording
0503 Recording vs. writing
06 AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)
0601 AppleScripts Syntax
0602 Statements
0603 Commands
0604 Expressions
0605 Objects
0606 Ways to refer to an object
0607 Object properties
07 Tell Statements
0701 Tell statements
0702 Nested tell statements
0703 Cross network tell statements
08 AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)
0801 Get
0802 Set
0803 Data types and classes
0804 Coercion
09 Variables
0901 What is a variable?
0902 It and Me
0903 Global and Local variables
0904 Result variable
10 AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)
1001 Operators
1002 Commenting
1003 Continuation
1004 If/then/else statements
1005 Repeat loops
1006 Repeat loop example
11 Scripting applications
1101 Activating an application
1102 Quark Xpress Demo
12 Finder scripting
1201 Finder as an application
1202 Finder objects
1203 Recording Finder Scripts
1204 Path names and aliases
1205 Finder Demo 1
1206 Finder Demo 2
13 User interaction
1301 Display dialog
1302 Getting user entered text
1303 Choose file
1304 Choose folder
1305 Choose application
1306 Drag and drop
14 Error Handling
1401 Compile errors
1402 Try/on error/end try
1403 Beeps and Display Dialogs
1404 Timeouts:
1405 Using the Result Window and Event Log
1406 Stopping a Script with an error number -128
1407 Commenting out lines
15 AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)
1501 Stopping a Script
1502 Properties
1503 Attachable applications
16 Handlers
1601 Handlers
1602 Declaring values in handlers
1603 Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers
1604 Recursion
1605 Calling handlers from other Scripts
17 Script objects
1701 Writing Script objects
1702 Running Script objects
1703 Loading Script objects
18 High powered Scripting
1801 Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications
1802 Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
1803 3rd party scripting applications
1804 What to do when an application is not Scriptable
1805 Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
1806 Building applications with FaceSpan
1807 System Scripting Tools
19 Other uses for AppleScript
1901 Scripting for the web, CGI
1902 Scriptable Speech
20 Getting started
2001 AppleScript books
2002 AppleScript classes
2003 Web sites
2004 Help modules
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