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Resources for AppleScriptObjC Since its introduction in OS X 10.6, support for AppleScriptObjC has grown significantly. Since OS X Yosemite, it is available everywhere, all the time. This is the place to find tools and documentation to help take advantage of this powerful AppleScript resource. 'Everyday AppleScriptObjC', Third Edition AppleScriptObjC was introduced largely as a replacement for AppleScript Studio, as a way to develop AppleScript-based applications with a rich interface in Xcode. Subsequent releases have made it increasingly more accessible to regular scripters. Not every script needs a complex interface, and not every scripter wants to master the complications of Xcode. AppleScriptObjC offers abilities most scripters want in their standard AppleScript applets or scripts. 'Everyday AppleScriptObjC' looks at AppleScriptObjC from this perspective: how to take advantage of this great resource in your everyday scripts. 'Everyday AppleScriptObjC', Third Edition is the ideal introduction for scripters wanting to use AppleScriptObjC in El Capitan, Yosemite and Mavericks. Read more here. Script Libraries My free script libraries include Myriad Tables Lib, FileManagerLib, PrefsStorageLib, RegexAndStuffLib, Metadata Lib, SQLite Lib, CalendarLib EC, FileTagsLib, Dialog Toolkit Plus and BridgePlus. Read more here. Script Geek Settle those arguments: Script Geek.app is a free script timer for geeks. Version 2.0 now available.Read more here. Myriad Helpers v2.0.2 Myriad Helpers is a free collection of Objective-C files that simplify some of the coding involved in AppleScriptObjC in Xcode projects. Read more here. EVERYDAY APPLESCRIPTObjC Everyday AppleScriptObjC, Third Edition by Shane Stanley is the perfect introduction to AppleScriptObjC scripting in Mavericks and later. This new edition covers the changes introduced in El Capitan, and contains several new chapters. Learn how to use AppleScriptObjC directly in your scripts in El Capitan and Yosemite Learn how to write and deploy AppleScriptObjC-based script libraries in Mavericks and later Full of useful snippets of code Explains how to make sense of the Cocoa documentation Covers the main classes useful to scripters <> BRIDGEPLUS LIBRARY BridgePlus is a free script library for use under OS X 10.9 and later, designed to improve and simplify the use of AppleScriptObjC. Read more and download it here: BridgePlus Script Library. MYRIAD HELPERS These helper files can greatly simplify using some Cocoa classes. Read more and download them here: Myriad Helpers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shane Stanley (center, in white) is a long-time AppleScript user and trainer from Melbourne, Australia. He co-presented the AppleScript Pro Sessions training events in the US for 10 years, and specializes in automating workflows in the publishing industry. (photo by Björn Zitting) VIDEO: ACTIONS AND OULETS A video demonstrating the connection of application interface elements to their corresponding AppleScript function code using Interface Builder outlets and actions. More here.

Resources for AppleScriptObjC

Since its introduction in OS X 10.6, support for AppleScriptObjC has grown significantly. Since OS X Yosemite, it is available everywhere, all the time.

This is the place to find tools and documentation to help take advantage of this powerful AppleScript resource.

'Everyday AppleScriptObjC', Third Edition

AppleScriptObjC was introduced largely as a replacement for AppleScript Studio, as a way to develop AppleScript-based applications with a rich interface in Xcode. Subsequent releases have made it increasingly more accessible to regular scripters.

Not every script needs a complex interface, and not every scripter wants to master the complications of Xcode. AppleScriptObjC offers abilities most scripters want in their standard AppleScript applets or scripts. 'Everyday AppleScriptObjC' looks at AppleScriptObjC from this perspective: how to take advantage of this great resource in your everyday scripts.

'Everyday AppleScriptObjC', Third Edition is the ideal introduction for scripters wanting to use AppleScriptObjC in El Capitan, Yosemite and Mavericks. Read more here.

Script Libraries

My free script libraries include Myriad Tables Lib, FileManagerLib, PrefsStorageLib, RegexAndStuffLib, Metadata Lib, SQLite Lib, CalendarLib EC, FileTagsLib, Dialog Toolkit Plus and BridgePlus. Read more here.

Script Geek

Settle those arguments: Script Geek.app is a free script timer for geeks. Version 2.0 now available.Read more here.

Myriad Helpers v2.0.2

Myriad Helpers is a free collection of Objective-C files that simplify some of the coding involved in AppleScriptObjC in Xcode projects. Read more here.

EVERYDAY APPLESCRIPTObjC

Everyday AppleScriptObjC, Third Edition by Shane Stanley is the perfect introduction to AppleScriptObjC scripting in Mavericks and later. This new edition covers the changes introduced in El Capitan, and contains several new chapters.

Learn how to use AppleScriptObjC directly in your scripts in El Capitan and Yosemite
Learn how to write and deploy AppleScriptObjC-based script libraries in Mavericks and later
Full of useful snippets of code
Explains how to make sense of the Cocoa documentation
Covers the main classes useful to scripters

BRIDGEPLUS LIBRARY

BridgePlus is a free script library for use under OS X 10.9 and later, designed to improve and simplify the use of AppleScriptObjC. Read more and download it here: BridgePlus Script Library.

MYRIAD HELPERS

These helper files can greatly simplify using some Cocoa classes. Read more and download them here: Myriad Helpers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shane Stanley (center, in white) is a long-time AppleScript user and trainer from Melbourne, Australia. He co-presented the AppleScript Pro Sessions training events in the US for 10 years, and specializes in automating workflows in the publishing industry. (photo by Björn Zitting)

VIDEO: ACTIONS AND OULETS

A video demonstrating the connection of application interface elements to their corresponding AppleScript function code using Interface Builder outlets and actions. More here.