AppleScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Scripting & Automation on MAC OS X - Softcover

Rosenthal, Hanaan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590594045 ISBN 13: 9781590594049

Publisher: APress, 2004

Synopsis

A high-level scripting language residing on the Mac platform, AppleScript adds functionality to the Mac operating system. AppleScript functions like a powerful macro language that automates tasks and adds functions. This book supports all versions of AppleScript through the latest, version 1.9.3. Rosenthal is already popular within the Mac community, and in this book he reaches out to Mac scripters. This book thoroughly explains advanced topics, without leaving the beginning Mac scripter behind. The book addresses scripting, current to Panther. And it continues where other books stop, offering additional points of view and perspective, as needed.

About this title

About the Author

The founder of Custom Flow Solutions, Hanaan Rosenthal developed his first drawing program and published a programming newsletter at the age of 11. He became a digital media and prepress consultant in 1991, specializing in Mac publishing. In 1996, he took on his first full-blown AppleScript automation project and never looked back. Since then he has helped reshape the workflow of numerous publishing companies and departments creating systems that save their owners millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours annually. His clients include Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management, The Boston Globe, and Showtime Networks.

Edition details

• Publisher: APress
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590594045
• ISBN 13: 9781590594049
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 650