Language Guide

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Organization of This Guide 0
This guide is divided into two parts:
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Part 1, “Introducing AppleScript,” provides an overview of the AppleScript
language and the tasks you can perform with it.
■ Part 2, “AppleScript Language Reference,” provides reference descriptions
of all of the features of the AppleScript language.
Part 1 contains these chapters:
■ Chapter 1, “AppleScript, Scripts, and Scriptable Applications,” introduces
AppleScript and its capabilities.
■ Chapter 2, “Overview of AppleScript,” provides an overview of the
elements of the AppleScript language.
Part 2 contains the following chapters:
■ Chapter 3, “Values,” describes the classes of data that can be stored and
manipulated in scripts and the coercions you can use to change a value
from one class to another.
■ Chapter 4, “Commands,” describes the types of commands available in
AppleScript, including application commands, AppleScript commands,
scripting addition commands, and user-defined commands. It also includes
descriptions of all AppleScript commands and standard application
commands.
■ Chapter 5, “Objects and References,” describes objects and their
characteristics and explains how to refer to objects in scripts.
■ Chapter 6, “Expressions,” describes types of expressions in AppleScript,
how AppleScript evaluates expressions, and operators you use to
manipulate values.