AppleScript The Comprehensive Guide (incl. examples)

##### Official Book Description ##### This is the second edition of Hanaan Rosenthals critically-acclaimed AppleScript book. It goes the extra mile to teach you AppleScriptexplaining advanced topics without leaving you behind. AppleScript is the high-level scripting language that resides on the Mac platform. It can be used to add functionality to the Mac operating system, automate tasks, add functions, and generally make things easier. AppleScript has always been very useful, and with Mac OS X, you can take AppleScript further than before. This book begins with the basics like handling variables, loops, and commands. Then it proceeds with more advanced concepts like debugging, AppleScripting with databases, manipulating PDFs with SMILE, and automating media workflow. In a nutshell, this book: * Takes you on a journey from novice to professional AppleScripter. * Is completely comprehensive; nothing is left to the imagination. * Is up-to-date through AppleScript 1.10/Mac OS X Tiger. If you are a Mac user who wants to know the real meaning of having full control over your machine, get into AppleScripting. And pick up this book because it really is the only guide you need to master the art of AppleScripting! ##### Notes ##### This is an eBook version of AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide, it is fully OCR'ed (meaning all of the text can be copied and searched), the pages have been properly numbered to match those of the print edition and bookmarks have been put at the start of chapters for easy reference. This book is good for programmers and non-programmers alike who want to learn AppleScript to create small applications ("applets") that automate tedious tasks such as renaming files or editing documents in batch. I have also uploaded various other books on programming on Mac OS X, check my uploads if you are interested in this subject. Please seed this as long as possible after downloading as my Internet connection is very slow and I will not be able to seed at very fast speeds. If you liked my upload don't forget to say thank you :).

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FishSlapper101 (2009-10-08)

I have absolutely no programming experiance or background, do you think that I will be able to learn this because I think I want to go into a programming career. And most al work for Apple! :D(hopefully...)
Well actually I am taking a programming course in high-school right now and we're learning REALBasic as well as later on in the semester I think it was Adobe Flash. Then the 2nd level of programming is Coaco but I've never heard of that before.
Btw, great upload! :D I'm gunna check your other e-books. xD

EdoDodo (2009-10-08)

FishSlapper101:
Well if you have little programming experience then AppleScript probably isn't a good place to start, not because it's difficult but because it is very different from other programming languages and cannot be used to create real programs (only automation scripts), so learning it will not help you learn other, more useful, programming languages.
The main programming language used for Mac OS X software is Objective-C. It is based on C (as are many other programming languages), so learning C will probably help you.
However, since you have already been taught the basics of programming with REALBasic, and maybe also some Object-Orientated Programming then you may be able to start learning Objective-C straight away.
Anyway two books that I would advise you to read are "Learn C on the Mac" and "Learn Objective-C on the Mac", you can download them here:


Hope this helps out, and good luck!

deodac (2010-01-26)

As always, nice work!

EdoDodo (2010-02-06)

deodac: Heh, and as always you're very welcome :)

Piratovsky (2010-04-09)

Thanks for this!

EdoDodo (2010-04-23)

Piratovsky: You're welcome :).

kludge420 (2010-07-18)

Excellent post Edo, I couldn\'t have said it any better and you pointed him to the exact same two books I thought of when I read his post. Well done.