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AppleScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AppleScript is a scripting language devised by Apple Computer, and built into Mac OS. The AppleScript project was an outgrowth of the HyperCard project. In keeping with the Mac OS tradition of ease-of-use, the AppleScript language is designed on the natural language metaphor, just as the graphical user interface is designed on the desktop metaphor. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AppleScript   (2501 words)

oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: AppleScript: The Definitive Guide AppleScript is a dynamic, object-oriented scripting system that allows Mac users--even novices who know nothing about programming--to directly control Macintosh applications, including the Mac OS itself. AppleScript, according to the author, has come close to extinction in the past, but is now entering a "golden age"; it is a technical innovation and a labor saving device for the ordinary Mac user, yet it's not true to say that it's an intuitive language needing no real explanation. The trouble with AppleScript is that to use it you have to use it to script an application, each application has a different vocabulary stored in its dictionary, and dictionaries in general have no manuals of their own. www.oreilly.com /catalog/applescpttdg   (2040 words)

ONJava.com -- AppleScript Primer for Mac OS X AppleScript is a built-in Macintosh automation tool that gives users the ability to control the operating system and several of their favorite applications. AppleScript Studio has been incorporated into an existing integrated development environment (IDE) consisting of Project Builder and Interface Builder, the same tools that are used to create Cocoa applications in the Java or Objective-C languages. AppleScript Studio is included with the December 2001 Mac OS X Developer Tools (see http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html), which are a free download for Apple Developer Connection members. www.macdevcenter.com /pub/a/mac/2002/02/01/applescript_macosx.html   (995 words)

AppleScript FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) AppleScript then takes the script, which is in a mess of tokens which include spaces so they aren't simply white space seperated, and crunches it down into a tokenized script resource. AppleScript then decompiles the script into styled text and returns both that and the compiled script data to the Script Editor (or whatever) and the compile is done. Some users have "upgraded" to the AppleScript 1.1 extension by downloading it from the Internet site of a developer who is shipping AppleScript with his product (the distribution license allows them to distribute the AS 1.1 and FaceSpan extensions and the scripting additions from AS 1.1, but _not_ the FaceSpan or Script Editors applications). www.prefab.com /scriptweb/archive/applescriptfaq.html   (4483 words)

AppleScript AppleScript is a scripting language for the Macintosh, which means that it is used to automate repetitive tasks involving the system and (optionally) Macintosh applications. For example, if you tell Eudora by means of Applescript to connect to PPP and then immediately follow that by a command that sends it to work with the messages in the in-box, it will not wait for the connection to complete before trying to read the e-mail in the in-box. I finally was tipped off by a hacker that I should set the Applescript delimiters to other values than the default, and then talk to Applescript in terms of 'first text item' and 'second text item'. www.conknet.com /~mmagnus/Applescript   (3814 words)

Ben's AppleScript Page AppleScript is one of the many under-promoted advantages of using Macintosh... I mainly used AppleScript for server automation tasks, which I triggered either on system startup or on a schedule using the utility T-Minus Ten. The AppleScript Language Guide has also been revised, and a number of Help Center modules for learning AppleScript can now be found at the AppleScript Guidebook page. www.nobleswan.com /applescript   (822 words)

Daring Fireball: The English-Likeness Monster Compiled AppleScripts are not stored as AppleScript source code; instead, as the name of the format implies, they are stored in a compiled format, which format consists of Apple Event codes. AppleScript’s slavish devotion to English-likeness, on the other hand, gives us two very different syntax constructs that read, to humans, as though they’re semantically similar. AppleScript is actually a tiny language, with extraordinarily few keywords, but the standard scripting additions turn it into a bigger language, ripe for terminology conflicts. daringfireball.net /2005/09/englishlikeness_monster   (2097 words)

oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: AppleScript in a Nutshell AppleScript in a Nutshell is the first complete reference to AppleScript, the popular programming language that gives both power users and sophisticated enterprise customers the important ability to automate repetitive tasks and customize applications. AppleScript in a Nutshell is a high-end handbook at a low-end price--an essential desktop reference that puts the full power of this user-friendly programming language into every AppleScript user's hands. AppleScript is also gaining a foothold in scientific programming, as technical organizations adopt G4 CPU-based systems for advanced computing and scientific analysis. www.oreilly.com /catalog/aplscptian   (1208 words)

AppleScript For instance, you can write a script to transfer data from the host to a file on your Macintosh and then tell another application to open that file. AppleScripts can be run locally or from a remote Macintosh. Download some sample scripts to get you started and show you the potential for using AppleScript with MacToPic +. www.carnationsoftware.com /carnation/AppleScript.html   (285 words)

Apple - Software - AppleScript - Mac OS X AppleScript in Panther includes dramatic changes to existing AppleScript tools, and introduces powerful new features and applications. The heart of AppleScript is the Script Editor application. All-in-all, AppleScript in Panther is an exciting release, delivering more power and abilities to make your time with the computer more productive. www.apple.com /applescript/macosx   (640 words)

Apple Script AppleScript is Macintosh and MacOsx technology for automating tasks within AppleScript aware applications and for communicating between AppleScript aware applications. Recent versions of MRJ (Macintosh Runtime for Java) on MacOs 9 allow AppleScript to control Java applications -- the Java objects and methods of a running Java application can be made visible to AppleScript as objects and events. An application is recordable when all (or most) user-interface handling results in the generation of one or more AppleEvents, which are directly routed to the application itself for execution. c2.com /cgi/wiki?AppleScript   (916 words)

Dr. Dobb's | CGI and AppleScript | July 22, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) AppleScript is now a standard component of System 7.5, and therefore available to all users. AppleScript variables and properties are dynamically typed --their types are not declared and can change from statement to statement. AppleScript provides an interesting mechanism for handling errors known as a "try block," which resembles the TRY...CATCH construct in C and some other languages. www.ddj.com /184409741   (2362 words)

Studio Log - Articles The difference is using the choose file to select a script to run and using osascript with only the POSIX path to the script as a parameter. After creating an AppleScript folder in the glossary, the document would be saved into it and be available in the glossary palette. An often used bit of AppleScript is the tell block, which tells an application to do commands found in its dictionary. www.blankreb.com /studioarticles.php?ID=5   (2507 words)

AppleScript Shell AppleScript is a very powerful scripting language available on all Macintosh computers. Usually, you write an applescript and then compile it, at which point it can be run like any other Mac application. In Mac OS X (which is Unix-based), it is possible to type commands in a Unix shell (e.g. hayne.net /MacDev/Ash   (676 words)

AppleScript Tips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Those commands are the actual AppleEvents which are sent when you use any kind of command in a script, or when something happens in a script or application. You may also have a different version of the application which your script is trying to talk to, or a different application with the same name. AppleScript allows you to cut some corners whilst typing your scripts: some keywords are optional, and sometimes you can use abbreviations which AppleScript will expand automatically when you compile your script. www.scotlandsoftware.com /articles/applescript   (1265 words)

AppleScript Info P.S. AppleScript Info's content will be available as long as UserLand chooses to leave it on the server. Ibis is an AppleScript droplet that will auto-post files via drag and drop to newsgroups using Thoth for OS X. Release notes: Fixed an error that, in extremely rare circumstances, would cause the path to the user's preferences to return an error. Folder Action Manager is a free utility to easily manage folder actions as well as their associated scripts on Mac OS X 10.1.2 or later. radio.weblogs.com /0103146   (1265 words)

The Mac Observer: AppleScript: The Macintosh Autopilot - Introduction to AppleScript I do recommend downloading Smile, a free AppleScript program that is more advanced than Script Editor, but a little more confusing in my opinion. AppleScript can italicize, colorize, or underline the categories to set them apart from each other. If an application is recordable, AppleScript can watch AppleEvents (Messages sent from one Mac application to another) generated by your actions and translate them into AppleScript commands. www.macobserver.com /tips/applescript/2001/20010618.shtml   (1259 words)

AppleScript Resources AppleScript for Dummies, by Tom Trinkos is a new book that I haven't seen yet. AppleScript, by Mark Gumpinger is a new book that I haven't read because it's in German. AppleScript FTP Archives is the main archive of the MacScripting mailing list. www.seanet.com /~jonpugh/applescript.html   (581 words)

AppleScript - a story worth telling | Lambda the Ultimate I believe that the development of AppleScript is a story worth telling, and I have been encouraged to attempt it despite the inherent difficulty of the task. In hindsight, we believe that AppleScript should have adopted the Programmer's Dialect that was developed but never shipped. In contrast to the Japanese and French localisations, there would be no need for applications to change as the new dialect could re-use the English names for entities and actions. lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/1724   (1030 words)

Automated Workflows, LLC - AppleScript and Workflow Automation Consulting Primarily serving Macintosh-based clients, we specialize in helping businesses to become more efficient, by developing more consistent and effective workflows, allowing them to cut their expenses and increase their revenue. This article was written by "AppleScript Essentials" columnist, Ben Waldie, president of Automated Workflows, LLC. AppleScript® is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. www.automatedworkflows.com   (627 words)

MacScripter BBS | Applescript Forums / detecting USB disk mount... Where AppleScript is concerned, I seem to be treading a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." Scripts are tested on a dual-core G5/2.3GHz Power Mac running OS X 10.4.8 Once I figure this out in applescript I would be very interested in learning about your shell script. This has the advantage of letting you also intercept the error in case it is some error OTHER than the file not existing. bbs.applescript.net /viewtopic.php?pid=54365   (2590 words)

TECSoft AppleScript Online Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Along with teaching AppleScript fundamentals, the OS 9 version of the training also covers scripting the OS 9 Finder, FileMaker Pro, QuarkXPress, and Canto Cumulus, and the OS X version covers scripting the OS X Finder, FileMaker Pro, iView MediaPro, and InDesign. AppleScripting is used extensively by professional publishing houses, prepress facilities, commercial printers, and others. Workflow Automation with AppleScript Online Training is based upon the hands-on training course of the same name TECSoft has delivered throughout North America and in the UK since 1997. www.tecsoft.com /applescript_training/online/index.html   (672 words)

AppleScripting Mac OS X AppleScript is a vital element in many high-end publishing departments, and it's a favorite scripting language among Mac power users. AppleScript, while a fantastic language for running scripts locally, has minimal support for doing anything else, like sockets or serving Web pages. AppleScript's integration with Mac OS X goes beyond the Finder. www.macdevcenter.com /pub/ct/47   (482 words)

MacWarriors AppleScript Workshop Most Macintosh users don't realize there is a powerful hidden interface to their computers -- a way to control and automate much of what we do every day; a way to save time and money; indeed, a way to have the computer do your work for you. If you've never heard of AppleScript before and want to learn, this is the workshop for you. Recent releases of the Mac OS have added all sorts of new and exciting features to AppleScript; this session is devoted to exploring them in detail. www.acm.uiuc.edu /macwarriors/workshops/applescript   (431 words)

AppleScripts for Tex-Edit Plus - Welcome! Download 199 diverse and useful AppleScripts from the Archive all written by and for Tex-Edit Plus users, all free to download. Among its many amazing features is its ability to use AppleScripts via an AppleScripts menu. AppleScripts written for Tex-Edit Plus enhance and extend its functionality and versatility and enable users to customize Tex-Edit Plus for their own specific text creation and editing purposes. www.dougscripts.com /texedit   (343 words)

AppleScript Tutorial for Beginners I - Getting Started & Script Editor One sidenote, if you haven't used AppleScript yet, the Scripts directory under your personal Library needs to be created (which one should be able to find out anyway). Other than that, I don't know of any malicious use of AppleScripts, and certainly don't know of any that could be called a virus/worm/trojan. With exception to reader submitted material, content may not be reproduced without first obtaining written consent. macscripter.net /articles/415_0_1_0_C   (561 words)

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