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Re: Applescript 123


  • Subject: Re: Applescript 123
  • From: Mark Taggart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:03 -0500

I'm sure a lot of folks appreciate the revelation with Alan's inquiry (including Alan) -- (I am at, least)

Applescript, as possibly the primary scripting language for Automator (personally, I don't go that deep with Automator), the expanded concerns posted here may be more appropriately useful here:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users


best,

mark taggart



On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Ben Waldie wrote:

I'll stay out of the main discussion here about release dates, who knew what and when, etc., but I will briefly share my 2 cents on a few points.

Sal's book covers the core concepts of AppleScript, which have not really changed much for many, many years. While Snow Leopard did incorporate some AppleScript changes (which I don't think are covered in Sal's book), as most OS updates do, those changes were somewhat minor, and mainly bug fixes (with a few new features and enhancements here and there). If you haven't done so already, you can find a list of the Snow Leopard changes in the AppleScript Release Notes on Apple's website at... <http://tinyurl.com/yklzdsj>.

A larger Snow Leopard change involved AppleScript Studio being replaced by AppleScriptObjC. However, to my knowledge, Sal's book doesn't really discuss Studio much, other than a few paragraphs. I don't think the book discusses Automator much either... although, you're certainly welcome to check out my soon-to-be released Automator for Snow Leopard book. ;-)

On another note, since this is an AppleScript-specific topic, it may be better served being moved over to the AppleScript Users mailing list.

Regards,

-Ben

On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Alan Alpar wrote:

I'm interested in purchasing AppleScript 1-2-3 by, Sal Soghoian. My concern is, is it up-to-date for snow leopard? It seems Automator has changed in some annoying ways from the Leopard version - even to the point of how you create new files - and I don't want a book I have to keep translating from the leopard way to the snow leopard way, I'd just as soon use the docs on the Apple dev site.

Alan

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