Re: Applescript 123
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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