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Learn AppleScript The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X

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ISBN-10: 1430223618

ISBN-13: 9781430223610

Edition: 3rd 2009

Authors: Hamish Sanderson, Hanaan Rosenthal

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List price: $99.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Apress L. P.
Publication date: 5/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1104
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.25" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Hamish Sanderson is an experienced United Kingdom-based AppleScripter who first discovered the joys of desktop automation while working as a book illustrator late last century. Since then he has contributed a range of useful libraries and utilities to the AppleScript community and pops up with some regularity on the various AppleScript mailing lists. He is also the author of the highly regarded appscript library, which brings AppleScript-like application scripting support to the popular Python language on OS X.

The founder of Custom Flow Solutions, Hanaan Rosenthal developed his first drawing program and published a programming newsletter at the age of 11. He became a digital media and prepress consultant in 1991, specializing in Mac publishing. In 1996, he took on his first full-blown AppleScript automation project and never looked back. Since then he has helped reshape the workflow of numerous publishing companies and departments creating systems that save their owners millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours annually. His clients include Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management, The Boston Globe , and Showtime Networks.

Read Me First
Introduction
How To Applescript
Starting to script—all over again
Values
Doing the math: All about numbers
Picking up dates
Lists and records
Giving commands
Variables
Operations and coercion
Teaching your script to make decisions
The assembly line: Creating repeat loops
User interaction
Working with files
Working with the clipboard
Turn errors in your favor
Other control statements
Defining and calling subroutines
Script objects
The Wild World of Applescript
AppleScript amenities in Mac OS X
Scripting additions and extendibility
The fundamentals of automating applications
Debugging scripts
A script by any other name
Healthy scriptwriting practices
Scripting Apple apps
Scripting data and databases
Automating media workflow
Smile: The AppleScript integrated production environment
Automating UNIX applications
Scheduling scripts
Controlling remote applications
The business of automation.
Advanced text and XML handling