Thank you so much Esther, you're suggestions as always are very much
appreciated and very thorough
Thank you again
James
MSN - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype - saulky1984
On 9 Feb 2008, at 19:22, Esther wrote:
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
