AppleScript is omniscient, easy to understand, and built into every Mac, and this book will show you how to unleash its full power so that you can take control of your Mac! It is a high level, natural language, pervasive architecture custom built to control everything your Mac can do. As the language of automation for Mac OS X, AppleScript has complete access to the Finder s graphical user interface and controls interapplication communication with all AppleScript able applications.
Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X is up to date for all that s new in Apple s latest release of the operating system, Snow Leopard. It starts off with a concise introduction to the world of AppleScript so that you can get your bearings, and then moves directly to how to use AppleScript. Along the way, you ll learn how to handle variables, loops, and commands. We know that you ll be eager to get through the basics quickly so that you can start to get your feet wet with some higher level concepts, such as debugging, AppleScripting, with databases, manipulating PDFs with SMILE, and automating media workflow. You could stop there, and you d be a pretty good AppleScripter. But for serious AppleScripters, the wild world of AppleScript awaits. We ll teach you more advanced techniques, such as some best practices, manipulating the file system, and automating Unix/Linux applications. It s all here, soup to nuts, with an emphasis on practical information that will help you solve any automation problem from the most mundane repetitive tasks to highly integrated workflows of complex systems. AppleScript was intended to be a Mac like and friendly tool for Everyman, and this book provides a Mac like and friendly approach to learning and mastering AppleScript for every man, women, and perhaps even child.
* Friendly enough for beginners, and detailed enough for advanced AppleScripters* Complete coverage of the AppleScript language and supporting AppleScript Studio tools* Fully updated for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard* Lets you take control of your Mac and learn how to automate tasks What you ll learn* See how to script in general and how to be an AppleScripter specifically.* Solve automation problems and find out which processes and applications are AppleScript able.* Use AppleEvents, the building blocks of AppleScript ability.* Build complex interapplication workflows as executable AppleScripts.* Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize your scripts.* Become a proficient, professional, or guru level AppleScripter.
Who is this book for? The audience for this book will be high level power users who want to automate tasks on their Macs and make life easier for themselves, seasoned Mac scripters looking for an edge, beginning Mac scripters looking for the right start, and developers from other platforms and languages who want to start scripting on the Mac.
Per maggiori informazioni: il volume "Learn AppleScript" 3 Rev ed. di Hamish Sanderson e Hanaan Rosenthal, edito da APress, è in vendita anche su IBS.it al prezzo di Euro 33,48.
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