Chapter 1 Ways to Use AppleScript

1. The Nature and Purpose of AppleScript
2. Is This Application Scriptable?
3. Calculation and Repetition
4. Reduction
5. Customization
6. Combining Specialties

Chapter 2 Places to Use AppleScript

1. Script Editor
2. Scripting Environment
3. Internally Scriptable Application
4. Script Runner
5. Automatic Location
6. Application
7. Unix

Chapter 3 The AppleScript Experience

1. The Problem
2. A Day in the Life
3. Conclusions, Lessons, and Advice

Chapter 4 Basic Concepts

1. Apple Event
2. The Open Scripting Architecture
3. Script
4. Compiling and Decompiling
5. Script Text File
6. Applet and Droplet
7. Scripting Addition
8. Dictionary
9. Scriptable, Recordable, Attachable

Chapter 5 Introducing AppleScript

1. A "Little Language"
2. Extensibility and Its Perils
3. The "English-likeness" Monster
4. Object-likeness
5. LISP-likeness
6. The Learning Curve

Chapter 6 Syntactic Ground of Being

1. Lines
2. Result
3. Comments
4. Abbreviations and Synonyms
5. Blocks
6. The

Chapter 7 Variables

1. Assignment and Retrieval
2. Declaration and Definition of Variables
3. Variable Names
4. Scoping of Variables
5. Script Properties
6. Lifetime of Variables

Chapter 8 Handlers

1. Returned Value
2. Parameters
3. Syntax of Defining and Calling a Handler
4. Pass By Reference
5. Scoping of Handlers
6. Handlers as Values

Chapter 9 Script Objects

1. Scoping of Script Objects
2. Top-Level Entities
3. Script Object's Run Handler
4. Handler Calls
5. Script Objects as Values
6. Compiled Script Files as Script Objects
7. Inheritance

Chapter 10 Objects

1. Class
2. Target
3. Get
4. It
5. Me
6. Properties and Elements
7. Element Specifiers
8. Properties of Multiple References
9. Object String Specifier

Chapter 11 References

1. References as Incantations
2. Creating a Reference
3. Identifying References
4. Dereferencing a Reference
5. Creating References to Local Variables
6. Reference as Parameter

Chapter 12 Control

1. Branching
2. Looping
3. Tell
4. Using Terms From
5. With
6. Considering/Ignoring
7. Errors
8. Second-Level Evaluation

Chapter 13 Datatypes

1. Boolean
2. Integer, Real, and Number
3. Date
4. String
5. Unicode Text
6. Styled Text
7. File
8. Alias
9. Application
10. Machine
11. Data
12. List
13. Record

Chapter 14 Coercions

1. Implicit Coercion
2. Explicit Coercion
3. Boolean Coercions
4. String, Number and Date Coercions
5. File Coercions
6. List Coercions
7. Unit Conversions

Chapter 15 Operators

1. Arithmetic Operators
2. Boolean Operators
3. Comparison Operators
4. Containment Operators
5. Concatenation Operator
6. Parentheses
7. Who Performs an Operation

Chapter 16 Global Properties

1. Strings
2. Numbers
3. Miscellaneous

Chapter 17 Constants

Chapter 18 Commands

1. Application Commands
2. Logging Commands

Chapter 19 Dictionaries

1. Resolution of Terminology
2. Resolution Difficulties
3. What's in a Dictionary
4. The 'aeut' Resource
5. Inadequacies of the Dictionary

Chapter 20 Scripting Additions

1. Pros and Cons of Scripting Additions
2. Scripting Additions and Speed
3. Classic Scripting Additions
4. Loading Scripting Additions
5. Standard Scripting Addition Commands

Chapter 21 Scriptable Applications

1. Targeting Scriptable Applications
2. Some Scriptable Applications

Chapter 22 Unscriptable Applications

1. Getting Started with Accessibility
2. GUI Scripting Examples

Chapter 23 Unix

1. Do Shell Script
2. Osascript

Chapter 24 Writing Applications

1. Applets
2. Digital Hub Scripting
3. Folder Actions
4. CGI Application
5. AppleScript Studio