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AppleScript Studio

AppleScript Studio combines several Apple technologies to let developers and sophisticated users create native Mac OS X applications that can be driven by AppleScript scripts. You work in the full-featured Xcode development environment and use Interface Builder to create complex user interfaces that support the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Studio applications make use of user-interface objects from the Cocoa application framework, such as windows, buttons, text fields, tabs, tables, and progress bars.

AppleScript Studio can be very useful in rapid prototyping and is ideal for adding a user interface to an existing command-line tool. You can write a Studio application using AppleScript alone or a mix of AppleScript and systems programming languages, such as C, Objective-C, and Java. For example, from an AppleScript script in a Studio application, you can call a Cocoa method, written in Objective-C, to execute a performance-critical operation.

You can find a learning path for AppleScript Studio in Getting Started with AppleScript. Or go directly to the documents AppleScript Studio Programming Guide and AppleScript Studio Terminology Reference. Many sample Studio applications are available in <Xcode>/Examples/AppleScript Studio.

AppleScript Studio applications require Mac OS X version 10.1.2 or later.

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