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Your Wish is My Command
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Your Wish is My Command

by Henry Lieberman
March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
18h 53m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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15.4 AppleScript: A Commercial Platform 313
I 5.4
AppleScript: A Commercial Platform
AppleScript is an application-independent, high-level scripting language
for the Apple Macintosh (Apple Computer 1993-1999). Familiar uses it to
record the user's actions and to examine and control target applications.
AppleScript is not the only commercial platform that can support PBD
(see Paynter 2000 for alternatives), but it is one of the most sophisticated
and is consequently an instructive model for future systems. This section
describes AppleScript and its effect on the development of Familiar.
The AppleScript ...
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