[Macpartners] Apple Script

[Atticus Gifford]

I haven't heard anything but praise for the new O'Reilly Applescript 
(the Definitive guide) book.  I would drop by a bookstore and skim it.. 
I've seen it at Quantum at times and at Borders at the Galleria.

-atticus

On Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 03:19 PM, Bill McAvinney wrote:

>
> On Jun 27, 2004, at 11:09 AM, John C. Welch wrote:
>>
>> In addition to Al's suggestion of actually showing us the code, keep 
>> in mind
>> that between 7.6.1 and 9, there were *massive* changes to 
>> AppleScript, so
>> you're probably going to have to do a good bit of work. If 'save 
>> data' is
>> how you wrote data to a file back then, (it's been a while since I 
>> scripted
>> on 7.ANYTHING), I can tell you now, that command changed
>>
>> john
>
> Does anyone know a good resource describing just the "massive" changes 
> to AppleScript. Especially useful would be a glossary that listed all 
> deprecated syntax and pointed to the replacement or near replacement 
> syntax?
>
> All of my AppleScripts (mostly written during OS8) have quit and I've 
> been reluctant to try to relearn AppleScript from scratch, and haven't 
> found a good transition resource.
>
> bill
>
> Bill McAvinney
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