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THE EXPERT’S VOICE ® IN MAC DEVELOPMENT
AppleScript
The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting
and Automation on Mac OS X
Everything you could ever need to know about AppleScript!
SECOND EDITION
Hanaan Rosenthal
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AppleScript
The Comprehensive Guide to
Scripting and Automation on
Mac OS X, Second Edition
Hanaan Rosenthal
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AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X, Second Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Hanaan Rosenthal
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Contents at a Glance
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxii
PART 1
■ ■ ■ Read Me First
■ CHAPTER 1
Introducing AppleScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PART 2 ■ ■ ■ How to AppleScript
■ CHAPTER 2 Scripting—From the Ground Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
■ CHAPTER 3 Introducing Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
■ CHAPTER 4 Doing the Math: All About Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
■ CHAPTER 5 Picking Up Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
■ CHAPTER 6 Working with Lists and Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
■ CHAPTER 7 Giving Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
■ CHAPTER 8 Working with Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
■ CHAPTER 9 Introducing Operations and Coercion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
■ CHAPTER 10 Teaching Your Script to Make Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
■ CHAPTER 11 The Assembly Line: Creating Repeat Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
■ CHAPTER 12 Interacting with the User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
■ CHAPTER 13 Advanced User Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
■ CHAPTER 14 Working with Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
■ CHAPTER 15 Manipulating the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
■ CHAPTER 16 Working with the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
■ CHAPTER 17 Using Errors to Your Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
■ CHAPTER 18 Defining and Calling Subroutines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
■ CHAPTER 19 Using Script Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
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