AppleScript
A Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X
Résumé
- Scripters of any level can pick up new information or brush up on familiar subjects.
- Introductory chapters explain how to use AppleScript from the ground up, along with dedicated chapters about strings, numbers, dates, handlers, and more.
- Intermediate scripters can expand their horizons with chapters detailing user interaction, manipulating files, harnessing errors, and more.
- Professional scripters can benefit from advanced subjects such as script objects, debugging, healthy scriptwriting, and automation.
- Completely covers the ins and outs of AppleScript for Mac OS X
Another book about AppleScript? No, not really; this is the book about AppleScript. There are enough books that either summarize the language or just touch on the basics; this one is written for real people who need to use AppleScript to get real things done.
This book starts from the scripter's point of view. It is organized based on the way the scripter uses the language, and pulls together all aspects of the language that pertain to that subject.
It starts with some in-depth introductory chapters on subjects such as variables, lists, and values, to explain the language to beginners and intermediate users. From there, it goes into subjects such as text manipulation, working with files, creating interfaces, and more. These subjects are explained and organized from a functional real-world viewpoint; after all, Hanaan has been writing scripts for a living for almost ten years, and knows which subjects are important, what commands get used, and where you should be careful
Most chapters end with a summary that reiterates the important commands, properties, and other facts covered therein. This helps you get information quickly when you need it.
The book also gets into advanced topics, but instead of being written in a way that excludes beginners and leaves advanced users wanting more, it takes a different approach: every subject is given background and basic exercises to allow beginners to figure it out. Then, the text explores the core of the matter, and looks at the subject from all possible angles, emphasizing the important issues. This book allows you to get what you need to be a better scripter, whether you create automated systems for a living, or just want to make a little less work for yourself and make life more fun in the process!
Sommaire
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: What makes AppleScript unique and what will make this book your favorite?
- Resources
- Read me first
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- Index
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Friendsof ED |
| Auteur(s) | Hanaan Rosenthal |
| Parution | 12/11/2004 |
| Nb. de pages | 850 |
| Format | 19 x 23 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1439g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9781590594049 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1-59059-404-9 |
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