AppleScript Tutorial Video

Self Study, AppleScript Tutorial Video on CD - DVD. The tutor guides you using step-by-step examples. Learn directly from your own desk high quality training videos at an affordable price. Works on both PC and Mac.

These AppleScript tutorials are structured for the Mac users that have no prior knowledge of programming but understand the benefits and increase in workflow that AppleScript can bring, regardless of your level of experience, you can master AppleScript and make it work for you. These tutorials start with a relevant and useful overview of AppleScript, the lessons then cover slightly more complex issues as the training advances, by the conclusion of the training your knowledge will have grown enabling you to create scripts that can accomplish complex tasks. An ideal way for the beginner to grasp a firm working understanding of this powerful language. We also have later AppleScript tutorials here .

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  • Works on PC or Mac
Topics Covered on this Training Video Include:
Introduction
AppleScript Basics
Introduction to the Script Editor
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Language
  • Application Dictionaries
  • Vocabulary
  • Scripting Addition Dictionaries
  • Application terminology vs. Core Language
Recording
  • Recordable applications
  • Recording
  • Recording vs. writing
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)
  • AppleScripts Syntax
  • Statements
  • Commands
  • Expressions
  • Objects
  • Ways to refer to an object
  • Object properties
Tell Statements
  • Tell statements
  • Nested tell statements
  • Cross network tell statements
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)
  • Get
  • Set
  • Data types and classes
  • Coercion
Variables
  • What is a variable?
  • It and Me
  • Global and Local variables
  • Result variable
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)
  • Operators
  • Commenting
  • Continuation
  • If/then/else statements
  • Repeat loops
  • Repeat loop example
Scripting applications
  • Activating an application
  • Quark Xpress Demo
Finder scripting
  • Finder as an application
  • Finder objects
  • Recording Finder Scripts
  • Path names and aliases
  • Finder Demo 1
  • Finder Demo 2
User interaction
  • Display dialog
  • Getting user entered text
  • Choose file
  • Choose folder
  • Choose application
  • Drag and drop
Error Handling
  • Compile errors
  • Try/on error/end try
  • Beeps and Display Dialogs
  • Timeouts:
  • Using the Result Window and Event Log
  • Stopping a Script with an error number -128
  • Commenting out lines
AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)
  • Stopping a Script
  • Properties
  • Attachable applications
Handlers
  • Handlers
  • Declaring values in handlers
  • Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers
  • Recursion
  • Calling handlers from other Scripts
Script objects
  • Writing Script objects
  • Running Script objects
  • Loading Script objects
High powered Scripting
  • Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications
  • Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
  • 3rd party scripting applications
  • What to do when an application is not Scriptable
  • Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
  • Building applications with FaceSpan
  • System Scripting Tools
Other uses for AppleScript
  • Scripting for the web, CGI
  • Scriptable Speech
Getting started
  • AppleScript books
  • AppleScript classes
  • Web sites
  • Help modules
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