English Dialect: AppleScript Finder Guide (Paperback)

The essential guide to using AppleScript to control operations of the Macintosh Finder. Apple scripting language is like a "super macro" language that allows different programs to work together. With the information in this book, AppleScript can be used by programmers and power users to create even more powerful and integrated work environments. A guide to using AppleScript to customize and automate the Macintosh. The book describes how AppleScript scripting language works with the Finder, the application that controls the Macintosh desktop. Readers are taught how to use AppleScript to automate commonly performed activities such as opening and closing folders and manipulating files. Features of the book include: tutorials which describe how to begin recording and writing Finder scripts; and references to the terms defined by the Finder that Macintosh users can use in scripts.

• ISBN:9780201409109 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:1994-07-21