Re: Applescript 123
Re: Applescript 123
- Subject: Re: Applescript 123
- From: Me <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:11:11 -0500
Ben hit the nail on the head about the difference between AppleScript
and AS Studio/AS ObjC.
Looking forward to it, Ben!
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Ben Waldie <email@hidden> 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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