December 2004
Beginner
600 pages
13h 42m
English
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C.5. Development Tools
The following sections provide references to development tools mentioned in this book if you want to look into any of them in more detail.
C.5.1. AppleScript Studio
As I note in Chapter 13, AppleScript Studio is an interactive editing and debugging environment for working with AppleScript programs. It also gives you the capability to create graphical user interfaces like those you see in many Mac OS X applications. The following sections provide some resources to help you learn more about AppleScript Studio.
C.5.1.1. Books
For additional help with AppleScript Studio, you might want to refer to the following book:
Ross, Charles, Absolute AppleScript Studio, No Starch Press, June, 2004. This book was not available for review at the time of this writing.
C.5.1.2. Websites and mailing lists
As you delve further into AppleScript Studio, you might find the following websites and mailing lists helpful:
www.apple.com/applescript/studio: Apple's main website for AppleScript Studio. Here you'll find examples, links to documentation, other websites, training, and so on.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/AppleScript-date.html: A direct link to the main Apple page for documentation related to AppleScript and AppleScript Studio.
www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-studio: Here's where you can join the applescript-studio mailing list.
C.5.2. Script Editor
This is the most commonly used application for AppleScript program development, and ...
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