AppleScript

Introduction

1. About this CD
2. What is AppleScript?
3. What is AppleScript good for?
4. Companies using AppleScript
5. What is installed with AppleScript?

AppleScript Basics

1. What is an Apple Event?
2. What is OSA?
3. What is Object Oriented?
4. Scripting vs. Programming
5. Different Types of Scripts
6. Scriptable Applications

Introduction to the Script Editor

1. What is the Script Editor and where is it located?
2. Buttons
3. Event Log
4. Result Window
5. AppleScript formatting
6. Default window size
7. Saving a Script
8. Running a Script

Language

1. Application Dictionaries
2. Vocabulary
3. Scripting Addition Dictionaries
4. Application terminology vs. Core Language

Recording

1. Recordable applications
2. Recording
3. Recording vs. writing

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)

1. AppleScripts Syntax
2. Statements
3. Commands
4. Expressions
5. Objects
6. Ways to refer to an object
7. Object properties

Tell Statements

1. Tell statements
2. Nested tell statements
3. Cross network tell statements

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)

1. Get
2. Set
3. Data types and classes
4. Coercion

Variables

1. What is a variable?
2. It and Me
3. Global and Local variables
4. Result variable

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)

1. Operators
2. Commenting
3. Continuation
4. If/then/else statements
5. Repeat loops
6. Repeat loop example

Scripting applications

1. Activating an application
2. Quark Xpress Demo

Finder scripting

1. Finder as an application
2. Finder objects
3. Recording Finder Scripts
4. Path names and aliases
5. Finder Demo 1
6. Finder Demo 2

User interaction

1. Display dialog
2. Getting user entered text
3. Choose file
4. Choose folder
5. Choose application
6. Drag and drop

Error Handling

1. Compile errors
2. Try/on error/end try
3. Beeps and Display Dialogs
4. Timeouts:
5. Using the Result Window and Event Log
6. Stopping a Script with an error number -128
7. Commenting out lines

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)

1. Stopping a Script
2. Properties
3. Attachable applications

Handlers

1. Handlers
2. Declaring values in handlers
3. Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers
4. Recursion
5. Calling handlers from other Scripts

Script objects

1. Writing Script objects
2. Running Script objects
3. Loading Script objects

High powered Scripting

1. Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications
2. Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
3. 3rd party scripting applications
4. What to do when an application is not Scriptable
5. Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
6. Building applications with FaceSpan
7. System Scripting Tools

Other uses for AppleScript

1. Scripting for the web, CGI
2. Scriptable Speech

Getting started

1. AppleScript books
2. AppleScript classes
3. Web sites
4. Help modules