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This AppleScript training video tutorial utilizes an easy to follow training format that is both engaging and informative. Created to assist the beginners to intermediate users, the author uses a unique training method that brings a high degree of visual clarity to even the most complex applications. Being over 6 hours long these AppleScript tutorials on DVD / CD are extremely comprehensive and easy to follow. Video Training by Experts - Low Cost.

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To allow you to evaluate the quality of these AppleScript training videos we have made the first 3 chapters of this tutorial available for free viewing online. The purchased version of this video training course contains all the topics listed below. Please Note: the free demos below have been compressed for faster playback over the internet, the audio and video quality of the purchased CD / DVD is far higher. To play the free demo videos you will need QuickTime, click here to download if needed »

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This AppleScript tutorial video will show you have to take control of your Mac and automate many of the time consuming tasks that you have to repeat on a regular basis. Any programming language can be a little bewildering to the new comer, but this training CD removes all the complexity and breaks the learning of AppleScripting down into simple steps. Authored by expert Ben Waldie users can expect to have a solid working knowledge by the conclusion of this tutorial. People that have purchased this product have also been intrested in the AppleScripting 2006 tutorial

The Blue Links below are free demos, when you purchase the video training DVD / CD the enitre content listings below are included , not just the free demo videos.

Introduction

AppleScript Basics

Introduction to the Script Editor

The purchased version of this product contains all the movies listed below as well as all the featured samples above.

US$ 99.95

Language

Application Dictionaries
Vocabulary
Scripting Addition Dictionaries
Application terminology vs. Core Language

Recording

Recordable applications
Recording
Recording vs. writing

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 1)

AppleScripts Syntax
Statements
Commands
Expressions
Objects
Ways to refer to an object
Object properties

Tell Statements

Tell statements
Nested tell statements
Cross network tell statements

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 2)

Get
Set
Data types and classes
Coercion

Variables

What is a variable?
It and Me
Global and Local variables
Result variable

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 3)

Operators
Commenting
Continuation
If/then/else statements
Repeat loops
Repeat loop example

Scripting applications

Activating an application
Quark Xpress Demo

Finder scripting

Finder as an application
Finder objects
Recording Finder Scripts
Path names and aliases
Finder Demo 1
Finder Demo 2

User interaction

Display dialog
Getting user entered text
Choose file
Choose folder
Choose application
Drag and drop

Error Handling

Compile errors
Try/on error/end try
Beeps and Display Dialogs
Timeouts:
Using the Result Window and Event Log
Stopping a Script with an error number -128
Commenting out lines

AppleScript Fundamentals (Part 4)

Stopping a Script
Properties
Attachable applications

Handlers

Handlers
Declaring values in handlers
Suoutine handlers and Command Handlers
Recursion
Calling handlers from other Scripts

Script objects

Writing Script objects
Running Script objects
Loading Script objects

High powered Scripting

Accessing Hidden capabilities of Applications
Scripting Additions and Faceless Applications
3rd party scripting applications
What to do when an application is not Scriptable
Debugging complex scripts with 3rd party tools
Building applications with FaceSpan
System Scripting Tools

Other uses for AppleScript

Scripting for the web, CGI
Scriptable Speech

Getting started

AppleScript books
AppleScript classes
Web sites
Help modules

AppleScript Training - VIDEO INFO

» Studio quality audio and video
» Works on Pc or Mac
» Ideal for people that learn quicker by being shown
» Master complex application in days

Title	:	AppleScript
Instructor	:	Ben Waldie
Price	:	US$ 99.95
Duration	:	6 hours - 97 Movies
OS	:	Win Vista XP 98,2000,ME. Mac OS 9, OS X
Delivery Options	:	Ground / 2 day / Next Day
Product Code	:	33137

BENEFITS OF THIS TRAINING COURSE

Learn AppleScript in the shortest time possible
Self paced tutorial, training on video, learn at your own pace
Just sit back and watch, no books to read, just easy to follow lessons
Training can be viewed from any location, on PC or Mac
All training is self-contained; you don’t even need the application you are learning loaded on your machine
The most affordable way to learn, benefit from a world-leading expert
High quality content for a fraction of the cost of a classroom training course
The tutorials can be rewound, fast forwarded or stopped at any time
Learn from the comfort of your own desk.

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