Matt Neuburg

Applescript: The Definitive Guide

Scripting and Automating Your Mac

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If you want to know all about AppleScript--the how, where, and why of using it - dig into AppleScript: The Definitive Guide. It doesn't make the mistake that other books do: it isn't about scripting this or that particular application, and it doesn't assume that learning AppleScript is easy or obvious. Instead, the book teaches and documents the language in a clear and rigorous manner, just as you'd expect with any programming or scripting language.

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. You can write scripts to automate repetitive tasks, customize applications, and even control complex workflows.

AppleScript has always been useful, but with Mac OS X it's even more so. Nearly every application that comes with Mac OS X is scriptable. Even non-scriptable applications can often be driven with AppleScript, thanks to the

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Mac users everywhere--even those who know nothing about programming--are discovering the value of the latest version of AppleScript, Apple's vastly improved scripting language for Mac OS X Tiger. And with this new edition of the top-selling AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, anyone, regardless of your level of experience, can learn to use AppleScript to make your Mac time more efficient and more enjoyable by automating repetitive tasks, customizing applications, and even controlling complex workflows.
Fully revised and updated--and with more and better examples than ever--AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition explores AppleScript 1.10 from the ground up. You will learn how AppleScript works and how to use it in a variety of contexts: in everyday scripts to process automation, in CGI scripts for developing applications in Cocoa, or in combination with other scripting languages like Perl and Ruby.
AppleScript has shipped with every Mac since System 7 in 1991, and its easeof use and English-friendly dialect are highly appealing to most Mac fans. Novices, developers, and everyone in between who wants to know how, where, and why to use AppleScript will find AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition to be the most complete source on the subject available. It's as perfect for beginners who want to write their first script as it is for experienced users who need a definitive reference close at hand.
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition begins with a relevant and useful AppleScript overview and then gets quickly to the language itself; when you have a good handle on that, you get to see AppleScript in action, and learn how to put it into action for you. An entirely new chapter shows developers how to make your Mac applications scriptable, and how to give them that Mac OS X look and feel with AppleScript Studio. Thorough appendixes deliver additional tools and resources you won't find anywhere else. Reviewed and approved by Apple, this indispensable guide carries the ADC (Apple Developer Connection) logo.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 181mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 834g
• ISBN-13: 9780596102111
• ISBN-10: 0596102119
• Artikelnr.: 15220067

Autorenporträt

Matt Neuburg has been programming computers since 1968. He majored in Greek at Swarthmore College, and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1981. Hopelessly hooked on computers since migrating to a Macintosh in 1990, he's written educational and utility freeware, and became an early regular contributor to the online journal TidBITS. In 1995, Matt became an editor for MacTech Magazine. He is also the author of Frontier: The Definitive Guide and REALbasic: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly.

Inhaltsangabe

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Part I. AppleScript Overview
1. Why to Use AppleScript
The Nature and Purpose of AppleScript
Is This Application Scriptable?
Calculation and Repetition
Reduction
Customization
Combining Specialties
2. Where to Use AppleScript
Script Editor
Internally Scriptable Application
Script Runner
Automatic Location
Application
Unix
Hyperlinks
Automator
3. Basic Concepts
Apple Events
The Open Scripting Architecture
Script
Compiling and Decompiling
Compiled Script Files
Script Text File
Applet and Droplet
Scripting Addition
Dictionary
Missing External Referents
Modes of Scriptability
Part II. The AppleScript Language
4. Introducing the Language
A Little Language
Extensibility and Its Perils
The "English-likeness" Monster
Object-likeness
LISP-likeness
The Learning Curve
5. Syntactic Ground of Being
Lines
Result
Comments
Abbreviations and Synonyms
Blocks
The
6. A Map of the World
Scope Blocks
Levels and Nesting
The Top Level
Code and the Run Handler
Variables
7. Variables
Assignment and Retrieval
Declaration and Definition of Variables
Variable Names
8. Script Objects
Script Object Definition
Run Handler
Script Properties
Script Objects as Values
Top-Level Entities
Compiled Script Files as Script Objects
Inheritance
9. Handlers
Handler Definition
Returned Value
Handlers as Values
Parameters
Pass by Reference
Syntax of Defining and Calling a Handler
Event Handlers
The Run Handler
Recursion
Power Handler Tricks
10. Scope
Regions of Scope
Kinds of Variable
Scope of Top-Level Entities
Scope of Locals
Scope of Globals
Scope of Undeclared Variables
Declare Your Variables
Free Variables
Redeclaration of Variables
Closures
11. Objects
Messages
Attributes
Class
Target
Get
It
Me
Properties and Elements
Element Specifiers
Operations on Multiple References
Assignment of Multiple Attributes
Object String Specifier
12. References
Reference as Target
Reference as Incantation
Creating a Reference
Identifying References
Dereferencing a Reference
Trouble with Contents
Creating References to Variables
Reference as Parameter
13. Datatypes
Application
Machine
Data
Boolean
Integer, Real, and Number
Date
String
Unicode Text
File and Alias
List
Record
14. Coercions
Implicit Coercion
Explicit Coercion
Boolean Coercions
Number, String, and Date Coercions
File Coercions
List Coercions
Unit Conversions
15. Operators
Implicit Coercion
Arithmetic Operators
Boolean Operators
Comparison Operators
Containment Operators
Concatenation Operator
Parentheses
Who Performs an Operation
16. Global Properties
Strings
Numbers
Miscellaneous
17. Constants
18. Commands
Application Commands
Standard Commands
Logging Commands
19. Control
Branching
Looping
Tell
Using Terms From
With
Considering/Ignoring
Errors
Second-Level Evaluation
Part III. AppleScript In Action
20. Dictionaries
Resolution of Terminology
Terminology Clash
Nonsensical Apple Events
Raw Four-Letter Codes
Multiple-Word Terms
What's in a Dictionary
The 'aeut' Resource
Inadequacies of the Dictionary
21. Scripting Additions
Pros and Cons of Scripting Additions
Classic Scripting Additions
Loading Scripting Additions
Standard Scripting Addition Commands
22. Speed
Tools of the Trade
Apple Events
List Access
Scripting Additions
Context
23. Scriptable Applications
Targeting Scriptable Applications
Some Scriptable Applications
24. Unscriptable Applications
Historical Perspective
Getting Started with Accessibility
GUI Scripting Examples
25. Unix
Do Shell Script
Osascript
26. Triggering Scripts Automatically
Digital Hub Scripting
Folder Actions
CGI Application
Timers, Hooks, Attachability, Observability
27. Writing Applications
Applets
AppleScript Studio
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Rezensionen

"Haben Sie sich schon mal gefragt, wie Sie Ihren Mac dazu bringen, nur für Sie zu ackern? Speziell jene alltäglichen Routinen, für die er eigentlich zusammengelötet wurde? Wenn Sie Ihre Wünsche in Mac-Befehle umsetzen wollen, ist AppleScript Ihr bester Freund [...]. Überwinden Sie also Ihren Respekt vor dem grimmig blickenden Hund, denn AppleScript - The Definitive Guide könnte ganz schnell Ihr treuester Begleiter werden." - Mac Life, November 2006