.com Solutions Inc. has updated its FileMaker 7 AppleScript Reference, offering both FileMaker 7 and PDF versions for free download. The guide provides a side-by-side quick reference for commonly used FileMaker 6 and FileMaker 7 AppleScript code examples. Each code example is stored within a FileMaker 7 database field for easy copying to the Mac OS X Script Editor.

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A speaker at the recent O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference, James Reynolds covers Mac OS X scripting in a recent article for MacDevCenter. In this in-depth tutorial, James covers Perl and shell scripts, how to call these scripts or AppleScripts from one another, and a side-by-side comparison of common script tasks in Perl, BASH, and AppleScript.

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The AppleScript Sourcebook notes the release of AppleScript for Absolute Starters, a downloadable PDF introductory guide to AppleScript. This free guide appears to focus on communication between different applications, one of AppleScript’s most valuable features that can’t be easily duplicated with shell scripts.

Posted at 12:08 AM PDT with these tags: mac, scripting

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