TAILIEUCHUNG - Getting Started with AppleScript

. Getting Started with AppleScript AppleScript is a powerful computer language that's been around since the days of Mac OS 7. | . Getting Started with AppleScript AppleScript is a powerful computer language that s been around since the days of Mac OS 7. Despite its maturity however AppleScript is often criticized by seasoned Mac programmers for being too simple too easy to learn and too much like English. Of course those are precisely the traits you want in a computer language assuming of course that you want to use a computer language at all. If you re an everyday Mac fan as opposed to some computer-science . AppleScript is by far the easiest programming language to use for automating your Mac. You can think of AppleScript programs called scripts as software robots. A simple AppleScript might perform some daily task like backing up your Documents folder. A more complex script can be pages long. In professional printing and publishing where AppleScript has an army of hard-core fans a script might connect to a photographer s hard drive elsewhere on the Internet download a photo from a predetermined folder color-correct it in Photoshop import it into a specified page-layout document print a proof copy and send a notification email to the editor automatically. Even if you re not aware of it you use the technology that underlies AppleScript all the time. Behind the scenes numerous components of your Mac communicate with each other by sending Apple Events which are messages bearing instructions or data that your programs send to each other. When you use the Show Original command for an alias or the Get Info command for a file or folder an Apple Event tells the Finder how to respond. AppleScript has several important advantages over Automator not least of which is its even greater power. Still AppleScript is a very deep subject so deep in fact that you d need an entire book to do it justice. This chapter is an appetizer a book like AppleScript The Missing Manual is the seven-course meal. Tip You can also download an entire chapter about AppleScript the chapter that appeared in the previous

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