Chapter 15. AppleScript Studio

Fourteen chapters into this book, you're probably pretty sick of dinky scripts that simply command programs and display dialog boxes. What would really be cool is if you could create full-fledged programs of your own, complete with text fields, buttons, windows, and other staples of the Mac interface.

"But of course," you say, "that's what advanced programming languages like Objective-C, C++, and Java are for!" You're right, but those aren't the only options. Thanks to AppleScript Studio, a beginner-friendly programming tool, you can write your own graphical Mac OS X programs with nothing but AppleScript as the underlying code.

The example scripts from this chapter can be found on the AppleScript Examples CD (see Sidebar 2.1 for instructions).