Actually, compared to JavaScript, AppleScript is way more English-like. There are several books out for AppleScript. Make sure if you buy one that it's only recently been published. For us beginners figuring out what can and can't work with the latest OS X is a major pain. It's amazing Apple hasn't done a better job of promoting AppleScript. Maybe they've always intended to do what Automator is in Tiger?
And I have a PDF from Microsoft on automating Office applications. Not too comprehensive, but useful. And I'm still waiting for my order of 14 months ago at Amazon for the book "AppleScript 1-2-3" the from "father of AppleScript." on 12/15/04 6:30 AM, Peter C.S. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thus spake Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 12/14/2004 8:42 PM: >> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" >> set include in random of every signature to true > > I remember when Apple first announced AppleScript, they hailed it as an > "English like" programming language "for the rest of us." > > Based on examples like the above, I think it's more like a "Yoda like" > language. :-> > > I can always understand a script I see, like the one above, but I can never > make heads or tails of the syntax when I'm trying to write one myself .... > > peter > Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much more inferior is he to a gold mine. - Jeremy Taylor -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
