Re: Matt Neuberg’s AppleScript book (was: What is "system events"?)
Re: Matt Neuberg’s AppleScript book (was: What is "system events"?)
- Subject: Re: Matt Neuberg’s AppleScript book (was: What is "system events"?)
- From: 2551phil <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:09:46 +0700
I doubt there’s much hope of it, but I’d really love to see Matt do a 3rd
edition, updating it to cover the changes since 2009, maybe getting together
with Shane to add all the Objective C bridging stuff. That’d be awesome (hint
hint)!
Best
Phil
@sqwarq
> On 21 Oct 2017, at 07:04, Bob Stern <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 20, 2017, at 9:04 AM, 2551phil <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> It’s oft-mentioned around here, but haven’t seen it mentioned for a while,
>> but if you’re looking to really understand the innards of AppleScript, you
>> need to start (and for most questions you’ll end) here:
>>
>> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596102111.do
>>
>> Don’t be put of by the date. Most of what it contains is still relevant, and
>> more importantly is the only source you’ll find for quite a lot of essential
>> info.
>
> +1 re Matt Neuberg’s book being the most thorough and rigorous AppleScript
> reference. It explains a lot of subtleties that are not obvious from Apple’s
> AppleScript Reference.
>
> Beware that O’Reilly stopped direct selling of their books. You can buy it
> from any other book seller, or you can subscribe to O’Reilly’s unlimited
> online book plan.
>
> Bob Stern
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