Re: Applescript 123
Re: Applescript 123
- Subject: Re: Applescript 123
- From: Ben Waldie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:19:45 -0400
Thanks. Also, just to clarify, my book doesn't cover developing for
Automator. It's a Visual QuickStart Guide, so it covers using
Automator. AppleScriptObjC would be an entire book itself, and I've
yet to tackle that project. ;-) There are some tutorials popping up,
though, for anyone who may be interested, such as...
* http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=30274 (this is just the link
to part 1, there are several)
* http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2009/09/a_look_at_applescriptobjc.html
-Ben
On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Me wrote:
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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