Chapter 18. Commands
A command is basically a verb. This chapter catalogues the built-in commands of the AppleScript language—those that have not been described already. AppleScript defines very few verbs of its own, leaving it to other applications to define further commands by way of their dictionaries.
(On how to use a command, see Chapter 10. For
set, copy, and
get, see Section 7.1. For
run, see Section 9.3. For
error, see Section 12.7. For
count, see Section 13.4.1, Section 13.12.1, and Section 13.13.1.)
Application Commands
A few commands may be sent to applications to start them up, bring them to the front, and make them quit. An application does not have to be scriptable to obey them (see Table 19-1 and the discussion there).
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