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Topics covered on this course include:
Tutorials introduction
- About this CD Demo
- What is AppleScript? Demo
- What is AppleScript good for? Demo
- Companies using AppleScript Demo
- What is installed with AppleScript? Demo
AppleScript Basics
- What is an Apple Event? Demo
- What is OSA? Demo
- What is Object Oriented? Demo
- Scripting vs. Programming Demo
- Different Types of Scripts Demo
- Scriptable Applications Demo
Introduction to the Script Editor
- What is the Script Editor and where is it located? Demo
- Buttons Demo
- Event Log Demo
- Result Window Demo
- AppleScript formatting Demo
- Default window size Demo
- Saving a Script Demo
- Running
a Script Demo
Language
- Application Dictionaries
- Vocabulary
- Scripting Addition Dictionaries
- Application terminology vs. Core Language
Recording
- Recordable applications
- Recording
- Recording vs. writing
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)
- AppleScriptís Syntax
- Statements
- Commands
- Expressions
- Objects
- Ways to refer to an object
- Object properties
Tell Statements
- Tell statements
- Nested tell statements
- Cross network tell statements
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)
- Get
- Set
- Data types and classes
- Coercion
Variables
- What is a variable?
- It and Me
- Global and Local variables
- Result variable
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)
- Operators
- Commenting
- Continuation
- If/then/else statements
- Repeat loops
- Repeat loop example
Scripting applications
- Activating an application
- Quark Xpress Demo
Finder scripting
- Finder as an application
- Finder objects
- Recording Finder Scripts
- Path names and aliases
- Finder Demo 1
- Finder Demo 2
User interaction
- Display dialog
- Getting user entered text
- Choose file
- Choose folder
- Choose application
- Drag and drop
Error Handling
- Compile errors
- Try/on error/end try
- Beeps and Display Dialogs
- Timeouts:
- Using the Result Window and Event Log
- Stopping a Script with an error number ñ128
- Commenting out lines
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)
- Stopping a Script
- Properties
- Attachable applications
Handlers
- Handlers
- Declaring values in handlers
- Subroutine handlers and Command Handlers
- Recursion
- Calling handlers from other Scripts
Script objects
- Writing Script objects
- Running Script objects
- Loading Script objects
High powered Scripting
- Accessing "Hidden" capabilities of Applications
- Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
- 3rd party scripting applications
- What to do when an application is not Scriptable
- Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
- Building applications with FaceSpan
- System Scripting Tools
Other uses for AppleScript
- Scripting for the web, CGI
- Scriptable Speech
Getting started
- AppleScript books
- AppleScript classes
- Web sites
- Help modules
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