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AppleScript Tutorials

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AppleScript is an easy-to-use scripting language that allows you to control applications on a Macintosh. With AppleScript, you can speed up processes, reduce user error, and ensure consistency. It also enables automated workflow and routine tasks, unattended operation 24 hours a day, and even cross-platform scripting. Author Ben Waldie carefully explains all of these capabilities and more in this Virtual Training Company tutorial. You can begin learning right away by clicking one of the links below.
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Introduction
About this CD (01:23)
What is AppleScript? (00:45)
What is AppleScript good for? (01:44)
Companies using AppleScript (01:04)
What is installed with AppleScript? (01:14)
AppleScript Basics
What is an Apple Event? (00:55)
What is OSA? (00:29)
What is Object Oriented? (01:01)
Scripting vs. Programming (00:46)
Different Types of Scripts (01:42)
Scriptable Applications (02:04)
Introduction to the Script Editor
What is the Script Editor and where is it located? (02:04)
Buttons (02:23)
Event Log (01:17)
Result Window (01:18)
AppleScript formatting (02:10)
Default window size (01:04)
Saving a Script (04:03)
Running a Script (01:03)
Language
Application Dictionaries (03:22)
Vocabulary (02:37)
Scripting Addition Dictionaries (05:50)
Application terminology vs. Core Language (02:53)
Recording
Recordable applications (02:43)
Recording (03:07)
Recording vs. writing (05:12)
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)
AppleScripts Syntax (00:42)
Statements (01:14)
Commands (00:32)
Expressions (00:41)
Objects (00:48)
Ways to refer to an object (02:41)
Object properties (03:07)
Tell Statements
Tell statements (01:21)
Nested tell statements (01:04)
Cross network tell statements (01:46)
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)
Get (01:00)
Set (02:05)
Data types and classes (05:42)
Coercion (03:08)
Variables
What is a variable? (03:39)
It and Me (01:51)
Global and Local variables (06:59)
Result variable (03:41)
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)
Operators (03:58)
Commenting (03:49)
Continuation (02:14)
If/then/else statements (04:24)
Repeat loops (05:51)
Repeat loop example (03:27)
Scripting applications
Activating an application (02:37)
Quark Xpress Demo (05:59)
Finder scripting
Finder as an application (01:02)
Finder objects (00:59)
Recording Finder Scripts (01:52)
Path names and aliases (06:09)
Finder Demo 1 (04:37)
Finder Demo 2 (04:12)
User interaction
Display dialog (05:18)
Getting user entered text (07:16)
Choose file (02:48)
Choose folder (01:06)
Choose application (01:56)
Drag and drop (05:04)
Error Handling
Compile errors (02:20)
Try/on error/end try (06:47)
Beeps and Display Dialogs (03:25)
Timeouts: (01:07)
Using the Result Window and Event Log (02:44)
Stopping a Script with an error number -128 (04:19)
Commenting out lines (02:46)
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)
Stopping a Script (00:46)
Properties (02:53)
Attachable applications (05:06)
Handlers
Handlers (02:37)
Declaring values in handlers (04:18)
Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers (01:57)
Recursion (11:52)
Calling handlers from other Scripts (03:43)
Script objects
Writing Script objects (02:39)
Running Script objects (02:50)
Loading Script objects (03:31)
High powered Scripting
Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications (05:20)
Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications (03:40)
3rd party scripting applications (02:46)
What to do when an application is not Scriptable (07:21)
Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools (03:56)
Building applications with FaceSpan (02:00)
System Scripting Tools (04:12)
Other uses for AppleScript
Scripting for the web, CGI (10:07)
Scriptable Speech (02:55)
Getting started
AppleScript books (02:28)
AppleScript classes (01:31)
Web sites (03:30)
Help modules (01:19)

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Tutorial Information / Pricing
Title: AppleScript
Author: Ben Waldie
SKU: 33137
ISBN: 1889347477
Duration: 6 hrs / 97 Lessons
Compatibility: Win XP, 2000, 98, NT, Mac OS X, OS 9

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