Beginning AppleScript®

14.4. Summary

This chapter introduced you to AppleScript Studio. You learned that

• AppleScript Studio really consists of two applications: Xcode and Interface Builder.

• Xcode provides a powerful environment for editing, building, running, and debugging applications. It also allows you to easily manage all the files associated with a project and to view online documentation.

• Interface Builder is a tool for developing graphical user interfaces. It allows you to drag UI elements into a window, set attributes for those elements, and make connections. A connection specifies the code that is to be executed whenever a specific event occurs, such as a button being clicked, a window being opened or closed, or a text field being edited.

  Congratulations! You've persevered and made it through the final chapter of this book. I hope you feel that you can begin writing your own AppleScript programs with confidence. Before you move on to check out the additional information provided in the appendixes, try the exercises that follow to test your understanding of the material covered in this chapter. You can find the solutions to these exercises in Appendix A.