RE: Yippie! Just got my AS in a Nutshell book
RE: Yippie! Just got my AS in a Nutshell book
- Subject: RE: Yippie! Just got my AS in a Nutshell book
- From: "Jeff Handy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:10:43 -0400
- Thread-topic: Yippie! Just got my AS in a Nutshell book
After a weekend with "the book", I can say that this one is a real
winner. I'm very happy with the detail and the way it was intelligently
sectioned out. The writing is clean with no excessive story telling and
nothing extraneous to read - it was obviously edited by real pros.
An example in the section on "Application Switcher" the author outlines
the "cycling keystroke" class as follows.
"cycling keystroke(keystroke object)
You can set the keyboard combination for cycling through open programs
(each program will become the highlighted program on the desktop in
sequence as you press this key combo). This example changes this
cycling keystroke to Control-F1:
tell application "Application Switcher"
set stroke to {key:F1 key, modifiers: {control down}}
set cycling keystroke to stroke
end tell
The keystroke object takes the form of a record type..." and it goes on
in more detail. Then it tells you a little later what would be valid
keystrokes to use.
This is merely one example. The breadth of material is somewhat narrow,
however it goes into great detail about all universal Applescript
functionality. It's not specialized to one program's library, but
extensively covers the details of Data Types, Operators, Reference
Forms, Variables and Constants, Flow Control statements, and
Subroutines.
This book will help take me to the next level of AppleScripting. I'd
recommend it to anyone interested in AS, though. If I'd had this a
couple of years ago, I could have had much tighter and reliable code
now. I'm really looking forward to reading this one several times over
the years. I think we have a new AS reference for the pros, folks.
IMO, of course.
Jeff Handy - Senior Digital Media Specialist
Bisk Education - Technology Development
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