Lesson 14. AppleScript Utility

Default Script Editor

GUI Scripting

Folder Actions

Script Menu

Scripting AppleScript Utility

What’s Next?

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) introduced a new application, AppleScript Utility, to collect in one central location several system settings that are relevant to AppleScript. It includes an important new feature, the Default Script Editor setting. The other settings available in AppleScript Utility were (and still are) scattered in various locations, but AppleScript Utility now lets you see and set all of them in a single window for convenience. Best of all, in Leopard AppleScript Utility has become scriptable!

AppleScript Utility is located in the AppleScript folder in your top-level Applications folder. Double-click ...

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