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Table of Contents
AppleScript Language Guide
AppleScript Finder Guide
AppleScript Scripting Additions Guide
Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication
The Tao of AppleScript
Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook
Applied Mac Scripting
AppleScript for Dummies
Scripting the Scriptable Finder
Ultimate Mac Programming
QuarkXPress Unleashed
Author: Apple Computer
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-40910-0
Year: 1994
Pages: 380 pages
Price: $29.95
Comments: Part of the AppleScript Developers Kit
The AppleScript Language Guide is a very good reference manual and contains
information not found in other AppleScript books.
Author: Apple Computer
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: ISBN 0-201-40910-0
Year: 1994
Pages: 154 pages
Price: $19.95
Comments: Part of the AppleScript Developers Kit
The AppleScript Finder Guide is a reference manual for Finder objects and
commands. A useful resource for some of the more obscure features.
Author: Apple Computer
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-40736-1
Year: 1994
Pages: 116 pages
Price: $18.95
Comments: Part of the AppleScript Developers Kit
The AppleScript Scripting Additions Guide explains the Scripting Additions
that come with AppleScript and has a chapter on writing them.
Author: Apple Computer
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-62200-9
Year: 1993
Pages:
Price: $36.95
Comments: contained on the AppleScript Developers Kit CD
A detailed reference manual about the inner workings of AppleScript
(Open Scripting Architecture, Apple Events, etc.).
Author: Derrick Schneider
Publisher: Hayden Books
ISBN: 1-56830-115-4
Year: 1994
Pages: 387 pages
Price: $29.95
Disk: AppleScript, popular scripting additions and scripting utilities,
sample scripts
This book has a conversational style, and is aimed mostly at those with no
prior programming experience.
Author: Danny Goodman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: ISBN 0-679-75806-2
Year: 1994
Pages: 554 pages
Price: $39
Disk: TableServer(TM), several scripting addition collections,
sample scripts
Comments: 1st Edition was called The Complete AppleScript Handbook
A complete introduction and reference. Includes a well-written chapter about
scripting of third-party applications. The AppleScript Quick Reference from the
appendix is also available as AppleGuide.
Author: Tom Trinko
Publisher: M&T Books
ISBN: 1-55828-330-7
Year: 1995
Pages: 877 pages
Price: $34.95
Disk: AppleScript 1.1, Frontier Runtime, demo versions of several
other automation tools (on CD-ROM)
Comments: The ISBN is correct, but may point to another, never-published
book. If you have trouble ordering it from your local store,
you can order direct from the publisher.
The only book that covers Frontier in addition to AppleScript. Applied Mac
Scripting won an Award of Excellence from the Digital Imaging Association as
"Most Useful Book for Service Bureaus". Stephen Jovanovic wrote an online review
of the book.
Author: Tom Trinko
Publisher: IDG Books
ISBN: 1-56884-975-3
Year: 1995
Pages: 396 pages
Price: $19.99 USA $26.99 Canada £18.99 UK
This book is a quick reference for experienced programmers and an easy to use
introduction for non-programmers. If you've never even written a HyperCard
script you'll still be able to master scripting once you've worked through
this book. It has tons of examples including how to script applications such
as Word, Quark Express, America Online, Excel, FileMaker Pro, the Finder,
and DeltaGraph Pro. Some information about the Scriptable Finder commands didn't
make it into the book.
Author: Steve Michel
Publisher: Ultimate Mac Programming
Author: Dave Mark
Publisher: IDG Books
ISBN: 1-56884-195-7
Year: 1994
Pages: 575 pages
Price: $39.95
Disk: AppleScript, CodeWarrior Demo, Programming utilities and demos,
sample code (on CD-ROM)
This book gives an introduction into Apple Events, the Open Scripting
Architecture and Finder scripting. The appendix has reprints of
several develop and MacTech articles relevant to Scripting.
Author: Brad Walrod
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0-67979-164-7
Year:
Pages: 491 pages
Price: $40
This book describes advanced techniques and useful XTensions, with an
excellent chapter on scripting QuarkXPress. (The step-by-step example is
in Frontier's UserTalk, but much of the commentary will be very useful
to an AppleScripter.)
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Updated 2/24/96 (format revised slightly 3/25/96).
