B.3 Apple Documentation

• The main AppleScript page, including a number of example scripts and other resources:

  http://www.apple.com/applescript/

• The AppleScript Language Guide, still the primary official documentation, and an important source of information, even though it often obfuscates more than it explains and is valid only to Version 1.3.7:

  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/interapplicationcomm/AppleScript/AppleScriptLangGuide/

• Incremental release notes and change notes post-dating the Language Guide:

  • AppleScript 1.4 change notes:

    http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1176.html#applescript

  • AppleScript 1.4.3 change notes:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75073

  • AppleScript 1.5.5 change notes:

    http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2010.html#applescript

  • AppleScript 1.6 change notes:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60835

  • AppleScript 1.7-1.9.2 release notes (at this point Apple seems at last to have recognized the importance of gathering and linking to the release notes from a single location):

    http://www.apple.com/applescript/release_notes/

• A superb detailed historical record of AppleScript changes, maintained by Bill Cheeseman:

  http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/applescript.html

• GUI Scripting:

  http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/

• AppleScript Studio:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/StudioBuildingApps/index.html

• Scripting on Mac OS X:

  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/Scriptability/Concepts/ScriptingOnOSX.html

• XML-RPC and SOAP:

  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/interapplicationcomm/soapXMLRPC/index.html

• Inside Macintosh, Apple events and Scripting:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/IAC/IAC-2.html

• The Open Scripting Architecture:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Open_Scripti_Architecture/index.html

• Making a Cocoa application scriptable:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Scriptability/index.html

• Glossary of AppleScript/Apple event terms:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Scriptability/Concepts/ScriptabilityTerms.html