Getting Back Into AppleScript
Getting Back Into AppleScript
- Subject: Getting Back Into AppleScript
- From: "Robert W. Young" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:00:22 +0000
- Thread-topic: Getting Back Into AppleScript
I began working with AppleScript back in 2010, using an iBook, ultimately running system 10.6.8, and relying on Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman's
AppleScript 1-2-3 as my scripting "Bible." I wrote quite a number of scripts that were useful to me, and many were quite involved. Basically I stopped writing new scripts a couple of years ago because at the time I didn't have anything more that was
pressing. But I sure relied on what I'd done. Then about a year ago I got a new computer, a MacBook Pro, running Yosemite, and now running El Capitan. I found that many of my existing scripts would no longer run, especially those relying on databases, and
scripts that ran one script through another. I didn't take the time to try to figure out what needed to be done. Now I need to get some of this working again. When checking online, I found little information about AppleScript, no new books, etc., and feared
that AppleScript was this decade's version of HyperCard that is quietly falling by the wayside. So - my questions are, is AppleScript still viable, and is it fully supported by Apple? Are there any updated manuals available? Is it still possible to script
programs such as Microsoft Office? What are some things that definitely won't work in the latest OS? I'm sure much of this has been covered many times for others, but thanks for any info that might be passed on to me.
Regards,
RWY
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