AppleScript Tutorials - Online Training Course

Course Title: AppleScript

AppleScript is an easy-to-use scripting language that allows you to control applications on a Macintosh. With AppleScript, you can speed up processes, reduce user error, and ensure consistency. It also enables automated workflow and routine tasks, unattended operation 24 hours a day, and even cross-platform scripting. Author Ben Waldie carefully explains all of these capabilities and more in this Virtual Training Company tutorial. You can begin learning right away by clicking one of the links below.

Course Author/Expert: Ben Waldie

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 97

Course Duration: 6 hours

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Course Outline:

Straight away, you can go through the first three chapters of this tutorial. If you need all the lessons, then join the Online University - complete access to over five hundred and fifty courses right now for as long as you need them and even get an online university certificate. See below for details.

Language

Application Dictionaries

Vocabulary

Scripting Addition Dictionaries

Application terminology vs. Core Language

Recording

Recordable applications

Recording

Recording vs. writing

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)

AppleScripts Syntax

Statements

Commands

Expressions

Objects

Ways to refer to an object

Object properties

Tell Statements

Tell statements

Nested tell statements

Cross network tell statements

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)

Get

Set

Data types and classes

Coercion

Variables

What is a variable?

It and Me

Global and Local variables

Result variable

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)

Operators

Commenting

Continuation

If/then/else statements

Repeat loops

Repeat loop example

Scripting applications

Activating an application

Quark Xpress Demo

Finder scripting

Finder as an application

Finder objects

Recording Finder Scripts

Path names and aliases

Finder Demo 1

Finder Demo 2

User interaction

Display dialog

Getting user entered text

Choose file

Choose folder

Choose application

Drag and drop

Error Handling

Compile errors

Try/on error/end try

Beeps and Display Dialogs

Timeouts:

Using the Result Window and Event Log

Stopping a Script with an error number -128

Commenting out lines

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)

Stopping a Script

Properties

Attachable applications

Handlers

Handlers

Declaring values in handlers

Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers

Recursion

Calling handlers from other Scripts

Script objects

Writing Script objects

Running Script objects

Loading Script objects

High powered Scripting

Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications

Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications

3rd party scripting applications

What to do when an application is not Scriptable

Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools

Building applications with FaceSpan

System Scripting Tools