Showing the reader how to use AppleScript in their own work and with their own applications, this book includes a disk with many example scripts that solve real-world problems, as well as a number of useful scriptable applications. The book is written for the AppleScript user, not for someone who specifically wishes to learn how to program. It covers many simple programming concepts, teaching the concepts through example or through the modification of scripts the user recorded. The book emphasises the use of AppleScript to "connect" applications together, as well as to connect computers on the network and even to other users. It teaches AppleScript by example and by the use of the user-recording feature of AppleScript as opposed to requiring the reader to learn the program first. The scripts allow the user to: automatically copy files at specific times; rename large groups of files; automate complex word-processing formatting tasks; integrate spreadsheet and database information into word processing documents; and to automate telecommunications tasks such as logging on and retrieving e-mail.
- ISBN10 0201406713
- ISBN13 9780201406719
- Publish Date 31 December 1994
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 23 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pearson Education (US)
- Imprint Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
- Language English