Lesson 4. Finding Objects
This chapter is the second in a series of five chapters about identifying, finding, and manipulating scriptable objects in applications.
Finding specific scriptable objects is a task common to most scripts. For example, a script might locate all the TIFF image files in a given folder that were modified today. Or a script might locate all the occurrences of a specific phrase in a story and replace them with another phrase. Finding scriptable objects is a common task and something that AppleScript and scriptable applications do exceptionally well. In this chapter, we’ll cover the techniques used to locate specific scriptable ...
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