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AppleScript in a Nutshell
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AppleScript in a Nutshell

by Bruce W. Perry
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
526 pages
16h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 19. Appearance Control Panel

The Appearance control panel, shown in Figure 19-1, lets the user customize the look and behavior of their desktop, such as its background color, the font for desktop text, the sounds that play when you manipulate window controls, and how window title bars and scroll bars work. These settings can be encapsulated into themes that you can name and load using AppleScript and the control panel itself. The Appearance control panel is located in startup disk:System Folder:Control Panels.

Appearance control panel
Figure 19-1. Appearance control panel

You can change the current Appearance theme with a bit of AppleScript, such as:

tell app "Appearance" to set current theme to theme "Golden Poppy"

Then you might want to change it back to your favorite theme once you get a look at “Golden Poppy”!

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