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AppleScript for Applications (Visual QuickStart Guides)

AppleScript for Applications (Visual QuickStart Guides)

by EthanWilde (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $10.10
Synopsis

AppleScript is Apple's intuitive and easy-to-use scripting language that lets users automate and control the actions of the Mac OS and Mac applications. Using AppleScript, anybody can streamline frequent tasks, such as logging on to the Internet, emptying the Trash, or formatting a graphics file. Businesses and corporations use AppleScript in their daily workflow to streamline repetitive tasks, retrieve files, and schedule backups. It's powerful, easy to use, and absolutely free.

Written by one of the country's leading AppleScript programmers, AppleScript for Applications: Visual QuickStart Guide offers extensive discussion of the latest versions of AppleScript for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X plus plenty of insider tips and tricks. This book includes complete scripts for popular Mac apps such as FileMaker Pro, Word, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress plus a companion Web site for downloads and helpful links.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 06 Nov 2001
ISBN 10: 0201716135
ISBN 13: 9780201716139
Book Overview:

@SUMMARY= AppleScript is Apple's English-like scripting language that comes with the Mac OS and lets users automate and control the actions of the Mac OS and Mac applications. With AppleScript, users can automate frequent tasks, such as logging on to the Internet, emptying the Trash, or formatting a graphics file. Businesses and corporations use AppleScript in their daily workflow to streamline repetitive tasks, retrieve files, and schedule backups. It's powerful, easy to use, and absolutely free. AppleScript for Applications shows readers how to use AppleScript to simplify and automate everyday tasks, using the popular Visual QuickStart Guide format, which includes hundreds of screen shots, clear, step-by-step instructions, and page tabs for easy referencing. Written by one of the country's leading AppleScript programmers, this book offers extensive discussion of the latest versions AppleScript for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X with plenty of insider tips and tricks. This book includes complete scripts plus a companion Web site for downloads and helpful links.


Author Bio

@AUTHBIO= Ethan Wilde lectures and speaks frequently about advanced AppleScript, technology, and the Internet. Wilde utilizes a wide range of technologies for his clients, including Perl, SQL, Visual Basic, and Unix, but swears by the power and versatility of AppleScript. He is the author of AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide. He lives in San Francisco.