Re: Saving parts and settings
Re: Saving parts and settings
- Subject: Re: Saving parts and settings
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:36:10 -0700
- Thread-topic: Saving parts and settings
On 7/2/06 8:37 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Shawn Duross wrote:
>
>> What is the address for the studio list? And would they be able to
>> teach me
>> to use those commands?
>
> http://lists.apple.com
>
> These lists aren't for teaching; they're for mutual aid and
> assistance. There are many good books that teach Applescript. I
> don't know whether there are any for Applescript Studio though, other
> than Apple's reference manual.
On AppleScript Studio list he's going to be told that "those commands"
('open for access', 'read', 'write', 'get eof', 'set eof', and 'close
access' - which in fact are NOT handlers or functions as dev_sleidy said but
Standard Additions commands) have nothing to do with Studio but are basic
AppleScript (Standard Additions) commands - and he'll be referred back to
this list! Whether he uses them in Script Editor or Xcode is immaterial.
Shawn, as Michelle says, these are AppleScript basics. Get yourself an
AppleScript book and learn it, starting off in Script Editor before moving
on to Xcode and Studio.
All the standard AppleScript books have information on those commands in
their section on Standard Additions or Scripting Additions. You can find a
list of books on the AppleScript pages at Apple's website. And if you've
never done any AppleScript, you'll have to learn the real basics before you
even get to those commands.
Especially if you've done any programming before, then Matt Neuburg's
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) is the best book. If you're a
total beginner, you may want to begin with simpler tutorials. Hanaan
Rosenthal's AppleScript: A Comprehensive Guide is really comprehensive, as
it says, and step by step. (It's also very long.) Many people here learned
with Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook - the only good book until a few
years ago and the 3rd edition is up to date. To just get the basic idea, the
simpler AppleScript: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly) is OK (and you'll learn
about those commands), but you'd later have to go back and read one of the
bigger books (Matt's would be the best follow-up at that point) to really
script properly. You might even learn what you need by perusing the Standard
Additions dictionary in Script Editor, if you already know what a dictionary
is. If not, better read one or more of the books first.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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