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AppleScript - The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X

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This is the second edition of Hanaan Rosenthals critically-acclaimed AppleScript book. It goes the extra mile to teach you AppleScript, explaining advanced topics without leaving you behind.
AppleScript is the high-level scripting language that resides on the Mac platform. It can be used to add functionality to the Mac operating system, automate tasks, add functions, and generally make things easier. AppleScript has always been very useful, and with Mac OS X, you can take AppleScript further than before.
This book begins with the basics like handling variables, loops, and commands. It proceeds with more advanced concepts like debugging, AppleScripting with databases, manipulating PDFs with SMILE, and automating media workflow. In a nutshell, this book:

  • Takes you on a journey from novice to professional AppleScripter.
  • Is completely comprehensive; nothing is left to the imagination.
  • Is up-to-date through AppleScript 1.10/Mac OS X Tiger.
If you are a Mac user who wants to know the real meaning of having full control over your machine, get into AppleScripting. And pick up this book-it really is the only guide you'll need to master the art of AppleScripting!

List of contents

Part 1. Read Me First: Introduction.- Part 2. How to AppleScript: Starting to script - all over again.- Values.- Doing the math: All about numbers.- Picking up dates.- Lists and records.- Giving commands.- Variables.- Operations and coercion.- Teaching your script to make decisions.- The assembly line: Creating repeat loops.- User interaction.- Working with files.-Working with the clipboard.- Turn errors in your favor.- Other control statements.- Defining and calling subroutines.- Script objects.- Part 3. The Wild World of AppleScript: AppleScript amenities in Mac OS X.- Scripting additions and extendibility.-The fundamentals of automating applications.- Debugging scripts.- A script by any other name.- Healthy scriptwriting practices.- Scripting Apple apps.- Scripting data and databases.- Automating media workflow.- Smile: The AppleScript integrated production environment.- Automating UNIX applications.- Scheduling scripts.- Controlling remote applications.- The business of automation.- Advanced text and XML handling.

About the author

The founder of Custom Flow Solutions, Hanaan Rosenthal developed his first drawing program and published a programming newsletter at the age of 11. He became a digital media and prepress consultant in 1991, specializing in Mac publishing. In 1996, he took on his first full-blown AppleScript automation project and never looked back. Since then he has helped reshape the workflow of numerous publishing companies and departments creating systems that save their owners millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours annually. His clients include Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management, The Boston Globe, and Showtime Networks.

Summary

This is the second edition of Hanaan Rosenthals critically-acclaimed AppleScript book. It goes the extra mile to teach you AppleScript, explaining advanced topics without leaving you behind.

AppleScript is the high-level scripting language that resides on the Mac platform. It can be used to add functionality to the Mac operating system, automate tasks, add functions, and generally make things easier. AppleScript has always been very useful, and with Mac OS X, you can take AppleScript further than before.

This book begins with the basics like handling variables, loops, and commands. It proceeds with more advanced concepts like debugging, AppleScripting with databases, manipulating PDFs with SMILE, and automating media workflow. In a nutshell, this book:


  • Takes you on a journey from novice to professional AppleScripter.

  • Is completely comprehensive; nothing is left to the imagination.

  • Is up-to-date through AppleScript 1.10/Mac OS X Tiger.


If you are a Mac user who wants to know the real meaning of having full control over your machine, get into AppleScripting. And pick up this book—it really is the only guide you'll need to master the art of AppleScripting!

Product details

Authors Hanaan Rosenthal
Publisher Apress
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.01.2009
 
EAN 9781590596531
ISBN 978-1-59059-653-1
No. of pages 808
Dimensions 190 mm x 40 mm x 236 mm
Weight 1278 g
Illustrations XXXIV, 808 p.
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages

B, Software Engineering, Apple Computer, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Operating systems, Professional and Applied Computing, Apple (Mac OS) operating systems, Apple and iOS, Debugging;UNIX;XML;databases;language;operating system

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