[Macpartners] Apple Script

[Yang Gu]

MIT Libraries also has an account at Safari Tech Books Online 
(http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/) which I believe has the 
O'Reilly Applescript book as well as others on Applescript.  It may be 
worth skimming through the contents online.

-- Yang

On Jun 29, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Atticus Gifford wrote:

> 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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>>
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