On Sun, 22 May 2005 14:31:33 +0100, Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good book on Applescript?
Despite 10years+ experience with xTalks, I still find Applescript
utterly impenetrable - Apples' own documentation manages to be so
verbose and yet so abstract as to make the often-complained about
(sometimes by me) Rev docs look brilliant. In particular, reading the
dictionaries of applications, I feel like a 13th century peasant
attempting to understand a technical description of a particle
accelerator...
I can't help, only sympathise, since I feel exactly the same. I've got
'AppleScript in a Nutshell' but it isn't (and doesn't claim to be) an
introduction. There seems to me something strangely arbitrary about
AppleScript, so that it's hard to build up an understanding by logical
inference from what you know already. And the first thing I tried to do
(iterating through a group of files to carry out a conversion) seemed
amazingly difficult - well, to me - and I got stuck and abandoned it. I
guess I should try 'AppleScript for dummies' too. I'd be interested to
hear how you get on.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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