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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.
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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.

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Instructor: Ben Waldie (more by this author)
Instruction: 97 Tutorials - Duration: 6 hrs
First Release: 2000-05-12
Compatitibility: Vista, XP, NT, 2000, 98, Mac OS9, Mac OS X 10.1+
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Price: $99.95
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Introduction
movie image About this CD
movie image What is AppleScript?
movie image What is AppleScript good for?
movie image Companies using AppleScript
movie image What is installed with AppleScript?

AppleScript Basics
movie image What is an Apple Event?
movie image What is OSA?
movie image What is Object Oriented?
movie image Scripting vs. Programming
movie image Different Types of Scripts
movie image Scriptable Applications

Introduction to the Script Editor
movie image What is the Script Editor and where is it located?
movie image Buttons
movie image Event Log
movie image Result Window
movie image AppleScript formatting
movie image Default window size
movie image Saving a Script
movie image Running a Script


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Language
Application Dictionaries
Vocabulary
Scripting Addition Dictionaries
Application terminology vs. Core Language

Recording
Recordable applications
Recording
Recording vs. writing

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)
AppleScripts Syntax
Statements
Commands
Expressions
Objects
Ways to refer to an object
Object properties

Tell Statements
Tell statements
Nested tell statements
Cross network tell statements

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)
Get
Set
Data types and classes
Coercion

Variables
What is a variable?
It and Me
Global and Local variables
Result variable

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)
Operators
Commenting
Continuation
If/then/else statements
Repeat loops
Repeat loop example

Scripting applications
Activating an application
Quark Xpress Demo

Finder scripting
Finder as an application
Finder objects
Recording Finder Scripts
Path names and aliases
Finder Demo 1
Finder Demo 2

User interaction
Display dialog
Getting user entered text
Choose file
Choose folder
Choose application
Drag and drop

Error Handling
Compile errors
Try/on error/end try
Beeps and Display Dialogs
Timeouts:
Using the Result Window and Event Log
Stopping a Script with an error number -128
Commenting out lines

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)
Stopping a Script
Properties
Attachable applications

Handlers
Handlers
Declaring values in handlers
Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers
Recursion
Calling handlers from other Scripts

Script objects
Writing Script objects
Running Script objects
Loading Script objects

High powered Scripting
Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications
Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
3rd party scripting applications
What to do when an application is not Scriptable
Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
Building applications with FaceSpan
System Scripting Tools

Other uses for AppleScript
Scripting for the web, CGI
Scriptable Speech

Getting started
AppleScript books
AppleScript classes
Web sites
Help modules
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