Hi James, Lew, and Others, Here are some resource suggestions on AppleScripts to add to Greg's description:
1. Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes Tips & Info Page: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/infocont.php The links are grouped under categories like "BASICS", "INFO", and "TIPS". Here are a few of the descriptions for some of the "BASICS" items: BASICS: Running AppleScripts in iTunes What you need to do to get your iTunes Scripts Menu going and start running scripts. BASICS: Using Script Editor A quick look at writing, debugging, and saving scripts in various formats with Apple's Script Editor. BASICS: iTunes/AppleScript Basics If you're ready to try AppleScripting your iTunes this article will give you a quick intro to the concepts. As always, the main difficulty in navigating through the excellent content at the dougscripts.com site is that there are numerous links for both site content and advertising that are difficult to skip over with VoiceOver. If you use the link-chooser menu (VO-keys+u) and select the "printer-friendly" link on each page (VO-keys+space twice -- first time selects the link, second time "clicks" it and brings up printer menu), you can use the printer menu options to either save this as a PDF file or view it in Preview. I'm guessing that in Leopard all the buttons are labeled, but in Tiger I use VO-keys+right arrow to navigate past the basic printer information to the second "unknown" where I interact, then VO-keys+right arrow brings me first to a button that will allow me to save the file as a PDF if I press it (VO-keys+space), or a second VO-keys+right arrow takes me to a button where I can send the page to Preview with VO-keys+space. For new pages on the dougscripts.com site, using the printer-friendly link is a good way to read content. Of course, once you've read through the content and decided on topice of interest, you can use the item chooser menu (VO-keys+i) on the web page to navigate. For example, since I've already listed a few of the topics near the top of the iTunes TIps & Info page, you could simply start typing "Runn" for "Running AppleScripts in iTunes" to find "link, Running AppleScripts in iTunes". I use grouping in my VoiceOver Navigation options, so after using VO-keys+spacebar to go to that link, I'd stop interacting and then VO-keys+down arrow through the page and it's links by groups. When you select a link to read about a topic, you can use the same method of going to the printer-friendly link to read the contents of the page. 2. bookshare.org AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Matt Neuburg Although the international selections at bookshare.org are more limited, they include the O'Reilly books, which are excellent sources of information on the Mac. I checked the Take Control Ebooks site at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ but they don't have a book on AppleScripts. They recommended the Matt Neuberg title. Searching at bookshare.org is not straightforward, but if you type in "AppleScript" into search field at the main page you'll get three titiles, all of which are O'Reilly Books titles, and therefore, I believe, available worldwide. (The advanced search has a popup button with the option, "O'Reilly Books, Available Worldwide", on the Books to Search field. I would avoid using this page unless you have to.) Here's the synopsis from the Bookshare page for this at: http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=27287 Synopsis: AppleScript: The Definitive Guide explores and teaches the language from the ground up. If you're a beginner and want to learn how to write your first script or just understand what the excitement is all about, you'll be able to do so after reading this book. Experienced AppleScripters will love having the most definitive, up-to-date AppleScript language reference available. Hope these suggestions help. I'm not really knowledgeable about writing AppleScripts myself. Cheers, Esther >On 9 Feb 2008, at 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I certainly wooul love to as well. as I feel that apple scripting >> will be >> handy for me to use and to help others with product problems etc. if >> anyone can >> point us to resources or documentation or some form of training >> of some >> kind that would be beneficial to us. >> >> lew
