Mac users everywhere--even those who know nothing about programming--are
discovering the value of the latest version of AppleScript, Apple's
vastly improved scripting language for Mac OS X Tiger. And with this new
edition of the top-selling AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, anyone,
regardless of your level of experience, can learn to use AppleScript to
make your Mac time more efficient and more enjoyable by automating
repetitive tasks, customizing applications, and even controlling complex
workflows.
Fully revised and updated--and with more and better examples than
ever--AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition explores
AppleScript 1.10 from the ground up. You will learn how AppleScript
works and how to use it in a variety of contexts: in everyday scripts to
process automation, in CGI scripts for developing applications in Cocoa,
or in combination with other scripting languages like Perl and Ruby.
AppleScript has shipped with every Mac since System 7 in 1991, and its
ease of use and English-friendly dialect are highly appealing to most
Mac fans. Novices, developers, and everyone in between who wants to know
how, where, and why to use AppleScript will find AppleScript: The
Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition to be the most complete source on the
subject available. It's as perfect for beginners who want to write their
first script as it is for experienced users who need a definitive
reference close at hand.
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition begins with a relevant
and useful AppleScript overview and then gets quickly to the language
itself; when you have a good handle on that, you get to see AppleScript
in action, and learn how to put it into action for you. An entirely new
chapter shows developers how to make your Mac applications scriptable,
and how to give them that Mac OS X look and feel with AppleScript
Studio. Thorough appendixes deliver additional tools and resources you
won't find anywhere else. Reviewed and approved by Apple, this
indispensable guide carries the ADC (Apple Developer Connection) logo.
