Chapter 3. AppleScript in Practice
Now that you have a general idea of what makes AppleScript and application scripting tick, it's time to roll up your sleeves and create your first serious AppleScript.
As a heavy-duty Mac user, I frequently drop interesting-looking web links, text clippings, zip files, and so forth onto my desktop "to put away later." Of course, what actually happens is that I never do get around to filing them away myself; instead, my desktop turns into such a mess that in the end I make myself a new "desktop archive" folder and throw everything into that. Although I might never get around to organizing these files properly, my desktop is nice and clean again—at least until I start accumulating a fresh pile of random files.
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