Applescript : The Definitive Guide (Paperback)

Matt Neuburg

  • 出版商: O'Reilly
  • 出版日期: 2003-12-04
  • 售價: $1,560
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,482
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 480
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0596005571
  • ISBN-13: 9780596005573
  • 已過版

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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 new Accessibility API and GUI Scripting technologies. And now AppleScripters can put a true Aqua interface around their scripts! There's never been a more exciting time for AppleScript users.

AppleScript: The Definitive Guide explores and teaches the language from the ground up. If you're a beginner and want to learn how to write your first script or just understand what the excitement is all about, you'll be able to do so after reading this book.

Experienced AppleScripters will love having the most definitive, up-to-date AppleScript language reference available. AppleScript: The Definitive Guide is the quintessential guide to this important Mac tool. Regardless of their level of experience, AppleScripters everywhere will turn to this book again and again.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. AppleScript Overview

1. Ways to Use AppleScript
     The Nature and Purpose of AppleScript
     Is This Application Scriptable?
     Calculation and Repetition
     Reduction
     Customization
     Combining Specialties

2. Places to Use AppleScript
     Script Editor
     Scripting Environment
     Internally Scriptable Application
     Script Runner
     Automatic Location
     Application
     Unix

3. The AppleScript Experience
     The Problem
     A Day in the Life
     Conclusions, Lessons, and Advice

4. Basic Concepts
     Apple Event
     The Open Scripting Architecture
     Script
     Compiling and Decompiling
     Script Text File
     Applet and Droplet
     Scripting Addition
     Dictionary
     Scriptable, Recordable, Attachable

Part II. The AppleScript Language

5. Introducing AppleScript
     A "Little Language"
     Extensibility and Its Perils
     The "English-likeness" Monster
     Object-likeness
     LISP-likeness
     The Learning Curve

6. Syntactic Ground of Being
     Lines
     Result
     Comments
     Abbreviations and Synonyms
     Blocks
     The

7. Variables
     Assignment and Retrieval
     Declaration and Definition of Variables
     Variable Names
     Scoping of Variables
     Script Properties
     Lifetime of Variables

8. Handlers
     Returned Value
     Parameters
     Syntax of Defining and Calling a Handler
     Pass By Reference
     Scoping of Handlers
     Handlers as Values

9. Script Objects
     Scoping of Script Objects
     Top-Level Entities
     Script Object's Run Handler
     Handler Calls
     Script Objects as Values
     Compiled Script Files as Script Objects
     Inheritance

10. Objects
     Class
     Target
     Get
     It
     Me
     Properties and Elements
     Element Specifiers
     Properties of Multiple References
     Object String Specifier

11. References
     References as Incantations
     Creating a Reference
     Identifying References
     Dereferencing a Reference
     Creating References to Local Variables
     Reference as Parameter

12. Control
     Branching
     Looping
     Tell
     Using Terms From
     With
     Considering/Ignoring
     Errors
     Second-Level Evaluation

13. Datatypes
     Boolean
     Integer, Real, and Number
     Date
     String
     Unicode Text
     Styled Text
     File
     Alias
     Application
     Machine
     Data
     List
     Record

14. Coercions
     Implicit Coercion
     Explicit Coercion
     Boolean Coercions
     String, Number and Date Coercions
     File Coercions
     List Coercions
     Unit Conversions

15. Operators
     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
     Logging Commands

Part III. AppleScript In Action

19. Dictionaries
     Resolution of Terminology
     Resolution Difficulties
     What's in a Dictionary
     The 'aeut' Resource
     Inadequacies of the Dictionary

20. Scripting Additions
     Pros and Cons of Scripting Additions
     Scripting Additions and Speed
     Classic Scripting Additions
     Loading Scripting Additions
     Standard Scripting Addition Commands

21. Scriptable Applications
     Targeting Scriptable Applications
     Some Scriptable Applications

22. Unscriptable Applications
     Getting Started with Accessibility
     GUI Scripting Examples

23. Unix
     Do Shell Script
     Osascript

24. Writing Applications
     Applets
     Digital Hub Scripting
     Folder Actions
     CGI Application
     AppleScript Studio

Part IV. Appendixes

A. The 'aeut' Resource

B. Tools and Resources

Index