Re: How to get started with AppleScript?
Re: How to get started with AppleScript?
- Subject: Re: How to get started with AppleScript?
- From: Goran Ehn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:01:37 +0200
Here you will find plenty of resources to begin with:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/resources/
Further more, staying on this list and monitoring its mail, that way
you will pick up details plenty of details. You can also search the
archive of this list here
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users. The
books Applescript in a nutshell and Applescript for applications are
also highly recommended.
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Sincerely
Goran Ehn
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fax +46 31 7015620
dir +46 31 7015694
Citat Media Production
Magasinsgatan 22
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www.citat.se
On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 11:16 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
Hi list - I hope it is not too naive to ask how one should get started
in understanding ApplesScript and making oneself productive really
quickly. I come from a particular background, which is strong
familiarity with programming concepts and with X-talk languages on the
Mac, over 15 years experience as a Mac user, but no knowledge of AS at
all. I'm still using MacOS 9.2.2, since not all my favourite apps run
in X and very few of my customers (schools) seem to be using it yet.
My Macs are still G3s.
I am trying to read a PDF manual from the Apple site but there seem to
be big gaps in a tutorial sense - I guess for me the biggest is the
idea of parametric references or whatever you might call them, to
allow one to do stuff like (in IYSWIM):
ask the user to select a folder [of input files]
ask the user to select a folder [for output files]
for each file in the selected folder
open the file
do stuff
rename the file
save the file
end for
I have not yet got the idea of the way AppleScript can do the 'for
each' part of this, so that you don't have to hard wire the path/
filename of each file, tho it surely can.
I would very much appreciate it if someone could suggest an
appropriate learning resource, hopefully rich in examples.
TIA
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / London, UK
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