Sams Teach Yourself AppleScript in 24 Hours

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ISBN: 9780672325182 | 0672325187
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/5/2003

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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to control and automate your Mac with AppleScript. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of AppleScript from the ground up. Book jacket.

Introduction

(1)

Who Should Read This Book

(1)

How This Book Is Organized

(1)

Conventions Used in This Book

(2)

Part I Getting Started with AppleScript

(76)

Introducing AppleScript

(12)

AppleScript Success Stories

(2)

Mac OS X

(1)

Real Estate and Other Listings

(1)

ShowTime

(1)

Responding to Disk Insertions with Scripts

(1)

Scripting Versus Point-and-Click

(2)

Using Unused Computer Time

(1)

Automating Complex Tasks

(1)

Automating Routine but Simple Tasks

(1)

Working with Speech Recognition

(1)

Watching for Special Cases and Conditions

(1)

What Makes AppleScript Special: Syntactical Scripting

(1)

How AppleScript Works: Overview

(1)

Apple Events

(1)

Application Support

(1)

Framework Support

(1)

AppleScript Syntax

(1)

Suites

(1)

Classes

(1)

Commands

(1)

AppleScript Syntax for Programming

(2)

Control Structures

(1)

Constants

(1)

Variables

(1)

Interacting with Users

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(1)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activity

(1)

Using AppleScript

(8)

Script Files

(1)

Applets

(1)

Droplets

(1)

Toolbar Scripts

(1)

Script Menu

(3)

Installing the Script Menu

(1)

Using the Script Menu

(1)

Modifying Script Menu

(1)

Removing Script Menu

(1)

Scripting Additions

(1)

Where to Get Scripts

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(1)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(1)

Running the Scripts You Already Have

(12)

Basics

(3)

Scripting Help Viewer

(1)

Using Scripts to Navigate the Web

(1)

Launching an Application with a Script

(1)

Finder Scripts

(1)

Info Scripts

(1)

Web Services

(2)

Mail Scripts

(2)

Navigation Scripts

(1)

Script Editor Scripts

(1)

Folder Action Scripts

(2)

ColorSync and FontSync Scripts

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(1)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(1)

Getting New Scripts from Apple and Running Them

(12)

The iPhoto Collection

(2)

Photo Summary

(1)

Show Image File

(1)

Photo to iDVD Background

(1)

The iDVD Collection

(2)

iDVD Companion

(1)

Create DVD from Folders, Photos, and More

(1)

Other Scripts

(1)

The iTunes Collection

(2)

Installing the iTunes Script Menu

(1)

Looking Up Artists on eMusic

(1)

Other Scripts

(1)

The QuickTime Collection

(1)

The EMBED Tag Wizard Script

(1)

The SMIL Suite

(1)

Other Scripts

(1)

The Toolbar Scripts

(2)

Customizing Your Desktop (Snapshot and Set View Options)

(1)

Image Manipulation Scripts

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(2)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(2)

Third-party Scripts and Applications That Simplify Your Life

(8)

Sites for Scripts

(3)

AppleScript Central

(1)

AppleScript Info

(2)

AppleScript Sourcebook

(1)

macscripter.net

(1)

ScriptWeb

(1)

Utility Scripts

(2)

iPhoto Librarian

(1)

MacSQL

(1)

Cronathon

(1)

email.cgi

(1)

acgi Dispatcher

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(2)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(1)

Looking Behind the Scenes: How These Scripts Work

(10)

Blocks

(1)

Subroutines

(2)

Using Parameters in Subroutines

(1)

Using Prepositions with Parameters

(2)

Handlers

(2)

Run

(1)

Open

(1)

Idle

(1)

Quit

(1)

Recursive Processing

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(3)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(2)

Basic Programming Concepts

(12)

Units of Control and Definition

(1)

Conditional Statements

(3)

Simple Conditional Statements

(1)

Compound Conditional Statements

(1)

Multiple Elses

(1)

Writing Good Conditional Statements

(1)

Returning from a Handler

(1)

Repetition

(3)

repeat forever

(1)

repeat x times

(1)

repeat while

(1)

repeat until

(1)

repeat with/from/to

(1)

repeat with/in

(1)

Try Blocks

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(2)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(2)

Part II Writing Scripts with Script Editor

(76)

Introducing Script Editor

(10)

Finding Your Way Around Script Editor

(2)

File Menu

(1)

Edit Menu

(1)

Controls Menu

(1)

Creating a Script

(1)

Checking Syntax

(2)

Working with Dictionaries

(2)

Looking at the Result

(1)

Looking at the Event Log

(1)

Summary

(1)

Q&A

(1)

Workshop

(2)

Quiz

(1)

Quiz Answers

(1)

Activities

(1)

Basic AppleScript Syntax

(14)

Tell Blocks

(2)

Telling an Application to Do Something

(1)

Telling an Object to Do Something

(1)

Nesting Tell Blocks

(1)

Single-line Tells

(1)

Commands

(1)

AppleScript Commands

(1)

User-defined Commands

(1)

Variables

(4)

User-defined Variables

(2)

AppleScript-defined Variables

(2)

Expressions

101

(1)

Control Statements

101

(1)

Optional Words

101

(1)

Script Structure

101

(4)

The Basic Script

102

(1)

Using Subroutines

103

(2)

Summary

105

(1)

Q&A

105

(1)

Workshop

105

(2)

Quiz

106

(1)

Quiz Answers

106

(1)

Activities

106

(1)

Scripting the Finder

107

(14)

References

108

(1)

Inheritance

109

(1)

Standard Suite: Terms That Most Applications Support

110

(3)

111

(1)

open

111

(1)

count

112

(1)

delete

112

(1)

make

112

(1)

Other Commands in the Finder Standard Suite

112

(1)

Standard Suite Commands Not Implemented in the Finder

112

(1)

Finder Basics

113

(2)

Elements

114

(1)

Properties

115

(1)

Finder Items

115

(1)

Container and Folders Suite

116

(1)

Files Suite

117

(1)

Window Classes Suite

117

(1)

Legacy Suite

117

(1)

Summary

117

(1)

Q&A

118

(1)

Workshop

118

(3)

Quiz

118

(1)

Quiz Answers

118

(1)

Activities

119

(2)

Scripting Mac OS X Applications from Apple

121

(14)

Reading a Dictionary

122

(2)

Find the application Class and Its Elements

123

(1)

Look at the Element Definitions

123

(1)

Repeat for Elements Contained Within Elements

124

(1)

iCal

124

(1)

Help Viewer

125

(1)

Mail

126

(1)

Address Book

127

(1)

TextEdit

128

(1)

DVD Player

129

(1)

Internet Connect

129

(1)

Print Center

129

(1)

Disk Copy

130

(1)

Image Capture Scripting

130

(1)

Terminal

130

(1)

Summary

131

(1)

Q&A

132

(1)

Workshop

132

(3)

Quiz

132

(1)

Quiz Answers

132

(1)

Activities

132

(3)

Scripting Mac OS X Applications from Third Parties

135

(12)

Scripting America Online

136

(1)

Scripting AppleWorks

137

(1)

Scripting FileMaker

138

(2)

Scripting Microsoft Office

140

(1)

Word

140

(1)

PowerPoint

141

(1)

Scripting Internet Explorer

141

(1)

Scripting Photoshop

142

(1)

Scripting Retrospect

143

(2)

Summary

145

(1)

Q&A

145

(1)

Workshop

146

(1)

Quiz

146

(1)

Quiz Answers

146

(1)

Activities

146

(1)

Interacting with Users

147

(10)

Telling the User Something

148

(2)

Asking the User Something

150

(1)

Other Ways of Communicating with Users

151

(1)

Speech Synthesis

151

(1)

Using Other Applications for Input and Output

152

(1)

Aqua Human Interface Guidelines

152

(2)

Summary

154

(1)

Q&A

154

(1)

Workshop

154

(3)

Quiz

154

(1)

Quiz Answers

155

(1)

Activities

155

(2)

Part III Working with AppleScript Studio

157

(122)

Introducing AppleScript Studio

159

(22)

Getting AppleScript Studio

160

(1)

What Is AppleScript Studio?

160

(4)

AppleScript Studio's Components

160

(2)

Looking at an AppleScript Studio Application

162

(2)

Getting Started with Project Builder

164

(4)

Looking at Interface Builder

168

(11)

Designing the Table View

168

(4)

Adding Other Interface Elements

172

(2)

Working with Handlers

174

(5)

Summary

179

(1)

Q&A

179

(1)

Workshop

180

(1)

Quiz

180

(1)

Quiz Answers

180

(1)

Activities

180

(1)

Building a Graphical AppleScript Studio Application

181

(20)

Writing a Simple AppleScript Studio Application

182

(5)

Create the Project

182

(1)

Set Up Interface Builder

183

(1)

Design the Window

183

(1)

Identify Window Elements

184

(3)

Write the Handler

187

(1)

Run the Application

187

(1)

A (Very) Little Programming Background

187

(6)

Properties

189

(1)

Elements

190

(2)

Commands

192

(1)

Events

192

(1)

Summing Up the Programming Details

193

(1)

Using Menus

193

(5)

Implementing a Menu Command

194

(1)

Factoring Your Application

195

(1)

Catching Errors

196

(1)

Enabling Menus

197

(1)

Summary

198

(1)

Q&A

198

(1)

Workshop

199

(2)

Quiz

199

(1)

Quiz Answers

199

(1)

Activities

199

(2)

Writing Code for AppleScript Studio

201

(20)

Working with Tab Views

202

(5)

Setting Up a Tab View

203

(2)

Using a Pop-up Menu to Control a Tab View

205

(2)

Using Pop-up Menus and Combination (Combo) Boxes

207

(3)

Using Connections to Get Pop-up Menu Values

208

(1)

Using AppleScript to Get Pop-up Menu Values

209

(1)

Finding Out About Events

210

(3)

Nib Handler

211

(1)

Action Handlers

211

(1)

Drag-and-Drop Handlers

212

(1)

Editing Handlers

212

(1)

Key Handlers

212

(1)

Mouse Handlers

212

(1)

View Handler

212

(1)

Special Handlers

212

(1)

Using Sliders

213

(1)

Using the Color Well and Image Views

214

(1)

Using Progress Indicators

214

(1)

Using Formatters

215

(3)

Summary

218

(1)

Q&A

218

(1)

Workshop

219

(2)

Quiz

219

(1)

Quiz Answers

219

(1)

Activities

219

(2)

Planning and Debugging AppleScript Studio Applications

221

(20)

Project Builder Preferences

222

(1)

Project Builder Targets

223

(8)

Summary Settings

224

(1)

Settings

225

(1)

Info.plist

226

(2)

Document Types

228

(2)

Build Phases

230

(1)

Project Builder Styles

231

(1)

Debugging Overview

232

(1)

Who Should Debug Applications?

233

(1)

When Do You Debug Applications?

233

(1)

Debugging with Script Editor

233

(1)

Debugging with Project Builder

233

(1)

Debugging with Project Builder's Debugger

234

(5)

Using Breakpoints

235

(1)

A Debugging Case Study

236

(2)

Debugging Strategies

238

(1)

Summary

239

(1)

Q&A

239

(1)

Workshop

239

(2)

Quiz

240

(1)

Quiz Answers

240

(1)

Activities

240

(1)

Adding Help to AppleScript Studio

241

(18)

Eliminating the Need for Help with Application Design

242

(5)

Data Entry

243

(3)

Command and Menu Design

246

(1)

Catching Errors

247

(1)

Providing Documentation

248

(1)

Providing Help Tags

248

(1)

Providing Button-driven Help

249

(5)

Adding an Image to Your Project

249

(3)

Implementing the Button

252

(2)

Interacting with Help Viewer

254

(1)

Summary

255

(1)

Q&A

256

(1)

Workshop

256

(3)

Quiz

257

(1)

Quiz Answers

257

(1)

Activities

257

(2)

Using Documents and Data Sources with AppleScript Studio

259

(20)

Working with Table and Outline Views

260

(2)

Working with Data Sources

262

(6)

Data Source Basics

262

(1)

Creating Data Sources

263

(1)

Adding Rows to Data Sources

264

(1)

Populating New Rows with Data

265

(2)

Bulk Additions to Data Sources

267

(1)

Extracting Data from Data Sources

267

(1)

Exploring the AppleScript Document Template

268

(4)

Working with Documents: High-level Approach

272

(2)

Storing Data to Disk

273

(1)

Retrieving Data from Disk

274

(1)

Working with Files: Low-level Approach

274

(2)

Storing Data to a File

275

(1)

Retrieving Data from a File

275

(1)

Summary

276

(1)

Q&A

276

(1)

Workshop

277

(2)

Quiz

277

(1)

Quiz Answers

277

(1)

Activities

277

(2)

Part IV Advanced Scripting

279

(82)

Advanced AppleScript Syntax

281

(16)

Script Objects

282

(10)

What Is a Script Object?

282

(1)

Script Objects as Instances

283

(4)

Inherited Script Objects

287

(4)

Design Considerations

291

(1)

GUI Scripting

292

(3)

Summary

295

(1)

Q&A

295

(1)

Workshop

295

(2)

Quiz

296

(1)

Quiz Answers

296

(1)

Activities

296

(1)

Creating AppleScripts to Control Multiple Applications

297

(14)

Basic Script Design

298

(2)

getData

298

(1)

createDocument

299

(1)

fillDocument

299

(1)

Extracting Data from Address Book and Placing It in Text Edit

300

(2)

getData

300

(1)

createDocument

300

(1)

fillDocument

300

(2)

Extracting Data from FileMaker and Placing It in Text Edit

302

(1)

getData

302

(1)

createDocument

303

(1)

fillDocument

303

(1)

Extracting Data from Address Book and Placing It in InDesign

303

(3)

getData

303

(1)

createDocument

304

(1)

fillDocument

305

(1)

Extracting Data from FileMaker and Placing It in InDesign

306

(1)

getData

306

(1)

createDocument

306

(1)

fillDocument

306

(1)

Creating Dynamic Pages with InDesign

306

(2)

getData

307

(1)

createDocument

307

(1)

fillDocument

307

(1)

Summary

308

(1)

Q&A

309

(1)

Workshop

309

(2)

Quiz

309

(1)

Quiz Answers

310

(1)

Activities

310

(1)

Using AppleScript Across a Network

311

(18)

Mounting Remote Disks

312

(1)

Mounting afp Volumes

312

(1)

Using the Server Name

313

(1)

Ejecting Disks

313

(1)

How AppleScript Works Across a Network

313

(1)

What You Need to Do on the Client Mac

314

(1)

What You Need to Do on the Server Mac

315

(3)

Allowing Remote Connections for File Sharing

316

(1)

Allowing Remote Connections for Apple Events

317

(1)

Setting Up User Accounts for Remote Access

317

(1)

Using AppleScript to Process CGI Requests

318

(3)

Creating the HTML

319

(1)

Modifying the Script from Apple

320

(1)

Using Web Services

321

(4)

XML-RPC

322

(1)

SOAP

322

(3)

Using Web Services with Script Editor

325

(1)

Using Web Services with AppleScript Studio

326

(1)

Summary

327

(1)

Q&A

327

(1)

Workshop

328

(1)

Quiz

328

(1)

Quiz Answers

328

(1)

Activities

328

(1)

Beyond AppleScript: Using Services

329

(12)

A Services Overview

330

(2)

How Services Work

332

(1)

Processor Services

332

(1)

Provider Services

332

(1)

Combination Services

332

(1)

Under the Hood

333

(1)

Enabling Services with AppleScript Studio

333

(4)

Why Use Services with AppleScript Studio?

337

(1)

Services from Script Editor

337

(1)

Make New AppleScript

337

(1)

Get Result of AppleScript

337

(1)

Run As AppleScript

338

(1)

Summary

338

(1)

Q&A

338

(1)

Workshop

338

(3)

Quiz

339

(1)

Quiz Answers

339

(1)

Activities

339

(2)

Beyond AppleScript: Shell Scripts, Perl, and Other Scripting Languages

341

(20)

Using Terminal

342

(7)

What Commands Are Available?

343

(1)

Using the Command Line

344

(1)

The Format of Commands

344

(1)

Using Files for Input, Output, and Errors

345

(1)

Using Files for Commands

346

(1)

Working with Files in Terminal

346

(1)

Listing a Directory and Displaying a File

347

(2)

Changing Permissions

349

(1)

Using sudo

349

(1)

Running AppleScript from Terminal

349

(3)

Running a Script from Terminal

350

(1)

Running AppleScript Commands from Terminal

351

(1)

Running AppleScript As Commands from Applications

352

(1)

Automatically Running Scripts

353

(3)

cron

353

(1)

periodic

354

(2)

Other Scripting Languages

356

(1)

Perl

356

(1)

Ruby

357

(1)

Python

357

(1)

Summary

357

(1)

Q&A

358

(1)

Workshop

358

(3)

Quiz

358

(1)

Quiz Answers

358

(1)

Activities

359

(2)

Part V Appendixes

361

(20)

Appendix A Constants and Predefined Variables

363

(4)

Appendix B Operators

367

(4)

Arithmetic Operators

368

(1)

Boolean Operators

368

(1)

Containment Operators

368

(1)

Equality Operators

369

(1)

Comparison Operators

370

(1)

Appendix C Third-party Script Editors

371

(10)

Smile

372

(2)

Script Debugger

374

(3)

PreFab UI Browser

377

(4)

Glossary

381

(4)

Index

385

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