AppleScript: The Missing Manual
AppleScript: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596008503
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 150
Pages: 150
Authors: Adam Goldstein
- AppleScript: The Missing Manual
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- The Missing Credits
- About the Author
- About the Creative Team
- Acknowledgments
- The Missing Manual Series
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Uses for AppleScript
- Advantages and Disadvantages
- About This Book
- Part I: AppleScript Overview
- Chapter 1. Setting Up AppleScript
- Section 1.1. The Script Menu
- Section 1.2. Working with the Scripts You Have
- Chapter 2. Using Script Editor
- Section 2.1. The Script Editor Look
- Section 2.2. Script Formats
- Section 2.3. Setting Script Editor s Preferences
- Chapter 3. Building a Script from Scratch
- Section 3.1. Getting Started
- Section 3.2. Commanding Other Programs
- Part II: Everyday Scripting Tasks
- Chapter 4. Manipulating Text
- Section 4.1. String Notation
- Section 4.2. Getting Text Back from Dialog Boxes
- Section 4.3. Linking Strings Together
- Section 4.4. Multiline Strings
- Section 4.5. Scripting TextEdit
- Section 4.6. Adding Word Count
- Section 4.7. Commanding Microsoft Word
- Section 4.8. Running Scripts from Text
- Chapter 5. Controlling Files
- Section 5.1. File Path Boot Camp
- Section 5.2. Displaying Folders
- Section 5.3. Moving Files Around
- Section 5.4. Backing Up Files
- Section 5.5. Deleting Files
- Section 5.6. Picking a File from a Dialog Box
- Section 5.7. Saving Files
- Chapter 6. Creating Lists
- Section 6.1. Common List Commands
- Section 6.2. Displaying Lists
- Section 6.3. The Ever-Useful every Keyword
- Section 6.4. List Processing
- Section 6.5. Joining Lists Together
- Section 6.6. Inputting Lists
- Section 6.7. Getting Lists from Other Programs
- Chapter 7. Organizing and Editing Graphics
- Section 7.1. Scripting iPhoto
- Section 7.2. Controlling Photoshop
- Section 7.3. Image Events
- Chapter 8. Playing Sound and Video
- Section 8.1. Scripting iTunes
- Section 8.2. Speaking and Listening
- Section 8.3. Scripting QuickTime
- Chapter 9. Internet and Network Scripting
- Section 9.1. Internet Connect
- Section 9.2. Safari
- Section 9.3. Address Book
- Section 9.4. Mail
- Section 9.5. iChat Control
- Section 9.6. URL Access Scripting
- Section 9.7. Recalling Passwords
- Chapter 10. Organizing Information in Databases
- Section 10.1. Record Notation
- Section 10.2. Making a Simple AppleScript Database
- Section 10.3. Getting File Information
- Section 10.4. Scripting FileMaker Pro
- Part III: Power-User Features
- Chapter 11. Linking Scripts to Folders with Folder Actions
- Section 11.1. Enabling Folder Actions
- Section 11.2. Built-in Actions
- Section 11.3. Running Your Own Actions
- Chapter 12. Scripting Programs That Don t Have Dictionaries
- Section 12.1. Enabling GUI Scripting
- Section 12.2. GUI Scripting Basics
- Section 12.3. Controlling Menus
- Section 12.4. Clicking Buttons
- Section 12.5. Deciphering Interface Hierarchies
- Section 12.6. Fake Typing
- Chapter 13. Mixing AppleScript and Unix
- Section 13.1. Terminal
- Section 13.2. Unix Without Terminal
- Section 13.3. Running Superuser Commands
- Section 13.4. Running AppleScripts from Unix
- Section 13.5. Scheduling AppleScript Commands
- Chapter 14. Testing and Debugging Scripts
- Section 14.1. First Line of Defense: The Compiler
- Section 14.2. Noting Important Events
- Section 14.3. Preventing Errors
- Section 14.4. Isolating and Handling Errors
- Section 14.5. The Xcode Debugger
- Chapter 15. AppleScript Studio
- Section 15.1. What Is AppleScript Studio?
- Section 15.2. Making a Program
- Part IV: Appendixes
- Appendix A. AppleScript Support in Common Programs
- Section A.1. Databases
- Section A.2. Email Programs
- Section A.3. Graphics Editors
- Section A.4. Page Layout Programs
- Section A.5. Plain Text Editors
- Section A.6. Word Processors
- Section A.7. Web Browsers
- Appendix B. Moving from HyperCard to AppleScript
- Section B.1. Data Types
- Section B.2. Dialog Boxes
- Section B.3. Existence
- Section B.4. Numbers
- Section B.5. Pausing
- Section B.6. Ranges
- Section B.7. Repeat Statements
- Section B.8. Subroutines
- Section B.9. Variables
- Appendix C. Where to Go from Here
- Section C.1. Web Sites
- Section C.2. Discussion Lists
- Section C.3. Books
- Colophon
- Index
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AppleScript: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596008503
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 150
Pages: 150
Authors: Adam Goldstein