AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

Other Software Mentioned in This Book

For free software from Apple, the URL is “somewhere on your hard drive.” Remember that for AppleScript Studio (Xcode, Interface Builder) you must install the Developer Tools.

• HyperCard, an overpriced, out-of-date, Classic-only, unsupported, but historically insanely great Mac scripting and interface construction environment:

  http://store.apple.com (and then search on “HyperCard”)

• UserLand Frontier, and its inexpensive little brother Radio UserLand, a brilliant, powerful scripting environment with its own scripting language and built-in persistent storage, great interapplication communications, and Internet server/client capability:

  http://www.userland.com

• BBEdit, a scriptable text editor:

  http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml

• Mailsmith, a scriptable email client:

  http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/index.shtml

• Eudora, a scriptable email client:

  http://www.eudora.com/email/index.html

• Microsoft Word, a word processor with extensive internal (Visual Basic) scriptability:

  http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/wordx/wordx.aspx

• Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program with extensive internal (Visual Basic) scriptability and strange but powerful AppleScript scriptability:

  http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/excelx/excelx.aspx

• FileMaker Pro, a scriptable database program:

  http://www.filemaker.com

• REALbasic, an application development environment:

  http://www.realbasic.com

• GraphicConverter, a scriptable image processing ...