Language Guide

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Defining Inheritance 271
How Inheritance Works 272
The Continue Statement 277
Using Continue Statements to Pass Commands to Applications 280
The Parent Property and the Current Application 281
Using the Copy and Set Commands With Script Objects 283
Appendix A The Language at a Glance
289
Commands 289
References 294
Operators 296
Control Statements 299
Handlers 301
Script Objects 303
Variable and Property Assignments and Declarations 303
Predefined Variables 304
Constants 305
Placeholders 307
Appendix B Scriptable Text Editor Dictionary
313
About Text Objects 313
Elements of Text Objects 314
Special Properties of Scriptable Text Editor Text Objects 314
Text Styles 315
AppleScript and Non-Roman Script Systems 317
Scriptable Text Editor Object Class Definitions 318
Application 318
Character 321
Document/Window 323
File 328
Insertion Point 329
Paragraph 331
Selection 334
Text 336