December 2004
Beginner
600 pages
13h 42m
English
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14.2. Developing a Simple Application
In this chapter, you develop an application with a simple user interface. Recall the program from Chapter 13 that you used to fetch a stock quote. That program allowed you to enter a stock symbol with one dialog, and then it displayed the resulting stock price with another. Here, you use AppleScript Studio to develop a better user interface. Instead of asking for the stock and then separately displaying the result, you design an interface that enables you to enter the stock's ticker symbol and show the quote in the same window. This is a fairly simple example, but you can't do it in AppleScript using only the built-in commands.
Figure 14-1 shows the interface for the application you'll develop in AppleScript Studio.
Figure 14.1. Figure 14-1
Figure 14-2 shows the result of typing AAPL into the Enter Symbol field and clicking the Get Quote button (or pressing Return). As you can see, Apple Computer's stock was selling for 30.8 when this program was run.
Figure 14.2. Figure 14-2
Now it's time to develop your Stock Quote application, which you do in the following Try It Out.
14.2.1.
14.2.1.1. Try It Out: Working with AppleScript Studio
It's important that you follow all these steps in order. It's easy to get lost using AppleScript Studio ...
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