Complete newbie
Complete newbie
- Subject: Complete newbie
- From: "Monee C. Kidd" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:07:39 -0400
Can someone point me to a website where one might go to learn the
basics of how to use Applescript? I understand the concept, but
looking at the various dictionaries of the applications I want to
script, I have no idea how to glue the various parts together to get
it to do what I want. My local bookstores don't have *any* books in
stock on Applescript, and I have several questions which are probably
very easily solved, I just need to learn how to understand the syntax
of the language. For example, I am trying to figure out how to open a
file in TextEdit and speak the text. Simple to all of you, I'm sure,
but I'm at my wits end trying to figure this out. The dictionary
entry for 'open" says:
open: Open an object.
open a list of alias -- list of objects
What am I supposed to *do* with that? I tried
open file "Macintosh HD:Users:imani08:Documents:Test"
and I get the error
--> TextEdit got an error: file "Macintosh
HD:Users:imani08:Documents:Test" doesn't understand the open message.
How am I supposed to word this line? And more importantly, once I
figure this one little command out, where do I go to figure out the
rest of it??
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