Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes, Second Edition

Recipe 12. Add AppleScript Support

Highlights

Turning on AppleScript support

Creating a terminology dictionary (scripting definition file)

Including the Standard Suite

Adding a custom suite

Adding the Text Suite

Adding HTML documentation to the dictionary

Extending and adding classes

Adding properties, elements, types, and commands

Getting and setting properties

Supporting undo and redo

Supporting Standard Suite commands

Adding verb-first custom commands

Adding object-first custom commands

This is the last of a series of recipes dealing with single topics. In this recipe, you add AppleScript support to the Vermont Recipes application using Apple’s Cocoa Scripting API. Cocoa Scripting is a big topic. You will exercise most of its major features ...