AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 0596102119
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 267

Authors: Matt Neuburg

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AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
The Scope of This Book
Versions
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
How to Contact Us
Safari Enabled
Acknowledgments (First Edition)
Acknowledgments (Second Edition)
Part I: AppleScript Overview
Chapter 1. Why to Use AppleScript
Section 1.1. The Nature and Purpose of AppleScript
Section 1.2. Is This Application Scriptable?
Section 1.3. Calculation and Repetition
Section 1.4. Reduction
Section 1.5. Customization
Section 1.6. Combining Specialties
Chapter 2. Where to Use AppleScript
Section 2.1. Script Editor
Section 2.2. Internally Scriptable Application
Section 2.3. Script Runner
Section 2.4. Automatic Location
Section 2.5. Application
Section 2.6. Unix
Section 2.7. Hyperlinks
Section 2.8. Automator
Chapter 3. Basic Concepts
Section 3.1. Apple Events
Section 3.2. The Open Scripting Architecture
Section 3.3. Script
Section 3.4. Compiling and Decompiling
Section 3.5. Compiled Script Files
Section 3.6. Script Text File
Section 3.7. Applet and Droplet
Section 3.8. Scripting Addition
Section 3.9. Dictionary
Section 3.10. Missing External Referents
Section 3.11. Modes of Scriptability
Part II: The AppleScript Language
Chapter 4. Introducing the Language
Section 4.1. A Little Language
Section 4.2. Extensibility and Its Perils
Section 4.3. The
Section 4.4. Object-likeness
Section 4.5. LISP-likeness
Section 4.6. The Learning Curve
Chapter 5. Syntactic Ground of Being
Section 5.1. Lines
Section 5.2. Result
Section 5.3. Comments
Section 5.4. Abbreviations and Synonyms
Section 5.5. Blocks
Section 5.6. The
Chapter 6. A Map of the World
Section 6.1. Scope Blocks
Section 6.2. Levels and Nesting
Section 6.3. The Top Level
Section 6.4. Code and the Run Handler
Section 6.5. Variables
Chapter 7. Variables
Section 7.2. Assignment and Retrieval
Section 7.3. Declaration and Definition of Variables
Section 7.4. Variable Names
Chapter 8. Script Objects
Section 8.1. Script Object Definition
Section 8.2. Run Handler
Section 8.3. Script Properties
Section 8.4. Script Objects as Values
Section 8.5. Top-Level Entities
Section 8.6. Compiled Script Files as Script Objects
Section 8.7. Inheritance
Chapter 9. Handlers
Section 9.1. Handler Definition
Section 9.2. Returned Value
Section 9.3. Handlers as Values
Section 9.4. Parameters
Section 9.5. Pass by Reference
Section 9.6. Syntax of Defining and Calling a Handler
Section 9.7. Event Handlers
Section 9.8. The Run Handler
Section 9.9. Recursion
Section 9.10. Power Handler Tricks
Chapter 10. Scope
Section 10.1. Regions of Scope
Section 10.2. Kinds of Variable
Section 10.3. Scope of Top-Level Entities
Section 10.4. Scope of Locals
Section 10.5. Scope of Globals
Section 10.6. Scope of Undeclared Variables
Section 10.7. Declare Your Variables
Section 10.8. Free Variables
Section 10.9. Redeclaration of Variables
Section 10.10. Closures
Chapter 11. Objects
Section 11.1. Messages
Section 11.2. Attributes
Section 11.3. Class
Section 11.4. Target
Section 11.5. Get
Section 11.6. It
Section 11.7. Me
Section 11.8. Properties and Elements
Section 11.9. Element Specifiers
Section 11.10. Operations on Multiple References
Section 11.11. Assignment of Multiple Attributes
Section 11.12. Object String Specifier
Chapter 12. References
Section 12.1. Reference as Target
Section 12.2. Reference as Incantation
Section 12.3. Creating a Reference
Section 12.4. Identifying References
Section 12.5. Dereferencing a Reference
Section 12.6. Trouble with Contents
Section 12.7. Creating References to Variables
Section 12.8. Reference as Parameter
Chapter 13. Datatypes
Section 13.1. Application
Section 13.2. Machine
Section 13.3. Data
Section 13.4. Boolean
Section 13.5. Integer, Real, and Number
Section 13.6. Date
Section 13.7. String
Section 13.8. Unicode Text
Section 13.9. File and Alias
Section 13.10. List
Section 13.11. Record
Chapter 14. Coercions
Section 14.1. Implicit Coercion
Section 14.2. Explicit Coercion
Section 14.3. Boolean Coercions
Section 14.4. Number, String, and Date Coercions
Section 14.5. File Coercions
Section 14.6. List Coercions
Section 14.7. Unit Conversions
Chapter 15. Operators
Section 15.1. Implicit Coercion
Section 15.2. Arithmetic Operators
Section 15.3. Boolean Operators
Section 15.4. Comparison Operators
Section 15.5. Containment Operators
Section 15.6. Concatenation Operator
Section 15.7. Parentheses
Section 15.8. Who Performs an Operation
Chapter 16. Global Properties
Section 16.1. Strings
Section 16.2. Numbers
Section 16.3. Miscellaneous
Chapter 17. Constants
true, false
yes, no, ask
missing value
null
plain, bold, italic, outline, shadow, underline, superscript, subscript, strikethrough, small caps, all caps, all lowercase, condensed, expanded, hidden
case, diacriticals, white space, hyphens, expansion, punctuation, numeric strings
application responses
current application
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Chapter 18. Commands
Section 18.1. Application Commands
Section 18.2. Standard Commands
Section 18.3. Logging Commands
Chapter 19. Control
Section 19.1. Branching
Section 19.2. Looping
Section 19.3. Tell
Section 19.4. Using Terms From
Section 19.5. With
Section 19.6. ConsideringIgnoring
Section 19.7. Errors
Section 19.8. Second-Level Evaluation
Part III: AppleScript In Action
Chapter 20. Dictionaries
Section 20.1. Resolution of Terminology
Section 20.2. Terminology Clash
Section 20.3. Nonsensical Apple Events
Section 20.4. Raw Four-Letter Codes
Section 20.5. Multiple-Word Terms
Section 20.6. What s in a Dictionary
Section 20.7. The aeut Resource
Section 20.8. Inadequacies of the Dictionary
Chapter 21. Scripting Additions
Section 21.1. Pros and Cons of Scripting Additions
Section 21.2. Classic Scripting Additions
Section 21.3. Loading Scripting Additions
Section 21.4. Standard Scripting Addition Commands
Chapter 22. Speed
Section 22.1. Tools of the Trade
Section 22.2. Apple Events
Section 22.3. List Access
Section 22.4. Scripting Additions
Section 22.5. Context
Chapter 23. Scriptable Applications
Section 23.1. Targeting Scriptable Applications
Section 23.2. Some Scriptable Applications
Chapter 24. Unscriptable Applications
Section 24.1. Historical Perspective
Section 24.2. Getting Started with Accessibility
Section 24.3. GUI Scripting Examples
Chapter 25. Unix
Section 25.1. Do Shell Script
Section 25.2. Osascript
Chapter 26. Triggering Scripts Automatically
Section 26.1. Digital Hub Scripting
Section 26.2. Folder Actions
Section 26.3. CGI Application
Section 26.4. Timers, Hooks, Attachability, Observability
Chapter 27. Writing Applications
Section 27.1. Applets
Section 27.2. AppleScript Studio
Section 27.3. Cocoa Scripting
Section 27.4. AppleScript Studio Scriptability
Part IV: Appendixes
Appendix A. The AppleScript Experience
Section A.1. The Problem
Section A.2. A Day in the Life
Section A.3. Conclusions, Lessons, and Advice
Appendix B. Apple Events Without AppleScript
Section B.1. Pure Raw Apple Events
Section B.2. JavaScript
Section B.3. UserTalk
Section B.4. Perl
Section B.5. Python
Appendix C. Tools and Resources
Section C.1. Scripting Software and Tools
Section C.2. Scriptable Software
Section C.3. AppleScript Documentation
Section C.4. Writing a Scripting Addition
Section C.5. Writing a Scriptable Application
Section C.6. Portals, Instruction, and Repositories
Section C.7. Mailing Lists
Section C.8. Books
Section C.9. Unix Scripting
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