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AppleScript: The Missing Manual
AppleScript: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596008503
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 150
Authors:
Adam Goldstein
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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
Year: 2003
Pages: 150
Authors:
Adam Goldstein
BUY ON AMAZON
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