Tutorial on applescript studio

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#1

Hi everyone,
I am looking for a tutorial on applescript studio. I have some experience with applescript but have no idea what you can do with applescript studio and how it works.

Does someone know a good free tutorial on applescript studio?

many thanks
macco

#2

Hi,

there are a couple of helpful articles on MacScripter itself, just search for AppleScript Studio.
Personally I’ve learned the most important things studying the sample projects in /Developer/Examples/AppleScript Studio/

#3

Yeah i have looked around a bit…
That means i have to learn how to use Interface Builder 3.0 first?

#4

Interface Builder and Xcode are connected together.

The third option is to read the hugh Xcode documentation.
For example you can start from scratch with Creating a Hello World Application

#5

Ah yeah i looked at things like this already but my problem was they are not written for interfacebuilder 3.0. ( for some earlier version i think)

So i can’t really figure out how to do that in IB 3.0. And i couldn’t find any good tutorials for IB 3.0.

#6

IB 3.0 is very similar to version 2 (at least the basics).
Just drag elements from the library window into your custom window and connect them in the Inspector window with your script in Xcode

#7

There are a good set of tutorials by Ben Waldie here:

AppleScript Studio Tutorial - Getting Started
http://macscripter.net/articles/439_0_10_0_C/
AppleScript Studio Tutorial - Getting Started with Buttons (Part 1)
http://macscripter.net/articles/446_0_10_29_C/
AppleScript Studio Tutorial - Getting Started with Buttons (Part 2)
http://macscripter.net/articles/450_0_10_29_C/
AppleScript Studio Tutorial - Getting Started with Displaying Progress
http://macscripter.net/articles/455_0_10_29_C/
AppleScript Studio Tutorial - Getting Started with Table Views
http://macscripter.net/articles/451_0_10_29_C/
AppleScript Studio Tutorial: Getting Started Using Tab Views
http://macscripter.net/articles/462_0_10_0_C/
Applescript Studio Tutorial: Polishing Your App 2 - Secrets Not In The Manual
http://macscripter.net/articles/480_0_10_0_C/
Applescript Studio Tutorial: Polishing Your Application
http://macscripter.net/articles/475_0_10_0_C/
Applescript Studio: About the About Box
http://macscripter.net/articles/185_0_10_29_C/

#8

Ok thank you very much…
But there all writen for IB 2.0.
Is there a way i can go back to the previous version of IB?
Cause i now have IB 3.0

#9

No.

But:
The basics in IB2 and IB3 are exactly the same.
I’d like to encourage you to find out the things by playing with them.

A major part of AppleScript was, is and will be trial & error

#10

Yeah i guess you’re right.
Il do that;)

thx very much

#11

Hi Adam
I tried the links you provide above to Ben Waldie articles but I get empty pages
Can you please help?
I searched for them one by one but I have trouble finding some of them

#12

MacScripter has changed the structure (and some URL’s) of the board

You can find all tutorials in unScripted here

#13

Xcode has it’s own help documentation under the help menu… choose “Documentation”. Then in the resulting window search by “title” and “all doc sets” and search for:

  1. AppleScript Studio Programming Guide
  2. AppleScript Studio Terminology Reference

These 2 documents tell you everything and include tutorials.

#14

Thanks Guys,

I found the documents and I am digesting them.

Next I mean to port a bundle applescript appl to AS Studio.
Should be fun!