AppleScript : Scripting and Automating Your Mac
Matt. Neuburg
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Sebastopol : : O'Reilly Media, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (592 p.)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Preface; The Scope of This Book; Versions; How This Book Is Organized; Part I, AppleScript Overview; Part II, The AppleScript Language; Part III, AppleScript in Action; Part IV, Appendixes; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments (First Edition); Acknowledgments (Second Edition); Part I; Why to Use AppleScript; The Nature and Purpose of AppleScript; Is This Application Scriptable?; Calculation and Repetition; Reduction; Customization; Combining Specialties; Where to Use AppleScript; Script Editor; Apple's Script Editor; Smile. - Case-Insensitivity of Variable NamesMemory of Variable Names; Variable Names and Vertical Bars; Script Objects; Script Object Definition; Run Handler; Script Properties; Script Objects as Values; Top-Level Entities; Accessing Top-Level Entities; Persistence of Top-Level Entities; What reinitializes top-level entities; File-level persistence; Compiled Script Files as Script Objects; load script; run script; store script; Data Storage; Library; Inheritance; Polymorphism; Continue; The Implicit Parent Chain; Non-Script Parent; Handler Calls, Commands, and Script Objects; Handlers. - Compiling and DecompilingCompiling; Decompiling; Compiled Script Files; Compiled Script File Formats; Run-only Scripts; Script Text File; Applet and Droplet; Scripting Addition; Dictionary; Dictionary Formats; Dictionary Troubles; Missing External Referents; Application Missing at Compile Time; Application Missing at Decompile Time; Application Missing When a Compiled Script Runs; Application Missing When an Applet Launches; Scripting Addition Missing; Modes of Scriptability; Recordability; Attachability; Part II; Introducing the Language; A Little Language; Extensibility and Its Perils. - Handler Definition. - Script DebuggerInternally Scriptable Application; Script Runner; Automatic Location; Application; Applet; AppleScript Studio; Cocoa; Unix; Hyperlinks; Automator; Basic Concepts; Apple Events; Reply; Scriptability; The Life of an Apple Event; What an Apple Event Looks Like; Go and Catch an Apple Event; What All This Has to Do with AppleScript; The Open Scripting Architecture; Components; Other Scripting Languages; Talking to a Scripting Component; Maintenance of State; Script; Script as Drive; Script as Program; Script as Script Object; Script as Scripting Component Operand; Script as File. - The "English-likeness" MonsterObject-likeness; LISP-likeness; The Learning Curve; Syntactic Ground of Being; Lines; Line-Break Characters; Line-Break Characters in Strings; Continuation Character; Result; Explicit Result; Implicit Result; Comments; Abbreviations and Synonyms; Blocks; The; A Map of the World; Scope Blocks; Levels and Nesting; The Top Level; Code and the Run Handler; Variables; Variables; Assignment and Retrieval; set; copy; Set by Reference; Multiple Assignment; Retrieval; Declaration and Definition of Variables; Definition; Initialization; Typing; Variable Names. - 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--
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| ISBN | 0596102119
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