AppleScript Documentation

• The main AppleScript page, including a number of example scripts and other resources:

  http://www.apple.com/applescript/

• AppleScript on Mac OS X from the developer's point of view:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptX/

• The AppleScript Language Guide—still the primary official documentation, and an important source of information, even though it often obfuscates more than it explains and is valid only to Version 1.3.7:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/

• Incremental release notes and change notes postdating the Language Guide:

  • AppleScript 1.4 change notes:

    http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1176.html#applescript

  • AppleScript 1.4.3 change notes:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75073

  • AppleScript 1.5.5 change notes:

    http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2010.html#applescript

  • AppleScript 1.6 change notes:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60835

  • AppleScript 1.7-1.9.2 release notes (at this point Apple seems at last to have recognized the importance of gathering and linking to the release notes from a single location):

    http://www.apple.com/applescript/release_notes/

• A superb detailed historical record of AppleScript changes, maintained by Bill Cheeseman:

  http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/applescript.html

• The 'aete' resource format:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/IAC/IAC-308.html

• The scriptSuite and scriptTerminology format:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Scriptability/Tasks/SuiteDefs.html

• GUI scripting:

  http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/

• AppleScript Studio:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/StudioBuildingApps/index.html

• Scripting on Mac OS X:

  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/Scriptability/Concepts/ScriptingOnOSX.html

• XML-RPC and SOAP :

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/soapXMLRPC/

• Inside Macintosh, Interapplication Communication:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/IAC/IAC-2.html

• Apple events:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Apple_Event_Manager/

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleEvents/

• The Open Scripting Architecture:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Open_Scripti_Architecture/index.html

• Remarkable early white paper on the OSA and AppleScript, by their creators:

  http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wcook/papers/AppleScript/AppleScript95.pdf

• Glossary of AppleScript/Apple event terms:

  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Scriptability/Concepts/ScriptabilityTerms.html