Chapter 21. Scriptable Applications

The chief virtue and purpose of AppleScript lies in its ability to communicate with scriptable applications by means of Apple events. This chapter summarizes the ways in which such communication is performed, and points out a few scriptable applications that might otherwise go unnoticed.

If you were hoping that this chapter would teach you all about how to script some particular application, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed (see The Scope of This Bookthe Preface). If the application comes with documentation or examples showing how to script it, start with that. For certain applications, there may be third-party books or web pages devoted to the topic. The application will in any case have a dictionary; see Chapter 19.