AppleScript

AppleScript is a scripting language and environment for the Mac OS. Originally conceived in 1989, AppleScript allows end-users to automate complex tasks and customize Mac OS applications. To automate tasks, AppleScript provides standard programming language features (control flow, variables, data structures) and sends Apple Events to invoke application behavior. Apple Events is a variation on standard remote procedure calls in which messages can identify their arguments by queries that are interpreted by the remote application. This approach avoids the need for remote object pointers or proxies and reduces the number of communication round-trips, which are expensive in high-latency environments like the early Macintosh OS. To customize an application that uses AppleScript's Open Scripting Architecture, users attach scripts to application objects; these scripts can then intercept and modify application behavior. AppleScript was designed for casual users: AppleScript syntax resembl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HOPL
• Authors: William R. Cook
• Keywords: AppleScript, AppleScript Allows End-users, HOPL 2007, Mac OS, Programming Languages