• AppleScript and Scriptable Applications

• The AppleScript Object Model

• Scriptability Information

• Scriptability Information Formats

• Viewing Scripting Terminology

• Built-in Support for Standard and Text Suites

• Built-in Support for Basic AppleScript Types

• Loading Scriptability Information

• Reliance on Key-Value Coding

• Interaction With Cocoa Bindings and Core Data

• Scriptability and Undo

• Snapshot of Cocoa Scripting

• A Real World Scripting Example

• Current Limitations of Cocoa Scripting Support

• Designing a New Scriptable Application

• Adding Scriptability to an Existing Application

• Implementation Guidelines

• Supply a Scripting Definition File

• Concentrate Scriptable Behavior in Model Objects

• Provide Keys for Key-Value Coding

• Add the Scripting Definition File to Your Xcode Project

• Turn On Scripting Support in Your Application

• Implement Object Specifier Methods for Scriptable Classes

• Use the Document Architecture

• Access the Text Suite

• Structure of a Scripting Definition File

• Code Constants Used in Scriptability Information

• Features Common to Many Scripting Definition File Elements

• High-level XML Elements

• XML Version and Document Type Definition

• Dictionary Element

• Suite Elements

• Create a Scripting Definition File

• Add Information to the Scripting Definition File

• Class Elements

• Property Elements

• Element Elements

• Contents Elements

• Command Elements

• Enumeration Elements

• Record-Type Elements

• Value-Type Elements

• Cocoa Elements

• Overview of Getting and Setting Values

• Key-Value Coding and Cocoa Scripting

• Maintain KVC Compliance

• On Omitting KVC Accessors

• Performance Considerations With KVC

• Interaction With Key-Value Observing

• KVC Conversion of Scalar and Structure Values

• Scripting Additions to KVC

• Sample KVC-Compliant Accessor Methods

• Single-Value Access

• Collection Value Access

• Special Accessor Methods

• Support for the Properties Property

• Coercion

• Overview of Object Specifiers

• Object Specifiers and KVC

• When to Implement an Object Specifier Method

• About Object Specifier Classes

• A Closer Look at an Object Specifier

• Evaluation of Nested Specifiers

• Cocoa Object Specifier Classes

• Implementing the Object Specifier Method

• An Object Specifier Method for a Rectangle in Sketch

• Specifying the Application Object as a Container

• Implementing A Method for Evaluating Object Specifiers

• Implicitly Specified Subcontainers

• Script Commands Overview

• Script Command Classes Supplied by Cocoa

• Script Command Scriptability Information

• Script Command Components

• Script Command Creation

• Script Command Execution

• Script Commands and Object Specifiers

• Error Handling

• Object-first Versus Verb-first Script Commands

• About Object-first Script Commands

• About Verb-first Script Commands

• Mixing Object-first and Verb-first Behavior

• Steps for Implementing a New or Modified Script Command

• Implementing an Object-First Command—Rotate

• Implementing a Verb-First Command—Align

• Modifying a Standard Command

• A Verb-first Move Command

• An Object-first Move Command

• Summary of AppleScript Command Support

• Scriptability Test Plan

• Use AppleScript Scripts to Test Your Application

• Turn On Debugging Output for Scripting

• Steps for Turning On Cocoa Debugging Output

• Sample Output

• Debugging Scriptability Information

• Checking an sdef File with xmllint

• Examining Scriptability Information in Your Application

• Additional Debugging Tips

• Performance Issues for Scriptability

• Script Commands and Scriptability Information

• Object Specifiers, Logical Tests, and Related Categories

• Key-Value Coding and Value Coercion

• Subclasses for Standard AppleScript Commands

• Manipulation of Apple Events

• Apple Event Handling Overview

• Basics of Apple Event Handling

• Handling Apple Events in a Cocoa Application

• Nonscriptable Applications

• Scriptable Applications

• Apple Events Sent by the Mac OS

• Open Application

• Reopen

• Open

• Print

• Open Contents

• Quit

• Constants for Apple Event Handlers Installed by the Application Kit

• Installing an Apple Event Handler

• Installing a Get URL Handler

• Implementing the Get URL Handler

• Suspending and Resuming Apple Events and Script Commands

• Scriptability Terms

• Changes in Scriptability Information Versions

• Advantages of the Scripting Definition Format

• Advantages of the Script Suite Format

• Converting and Updating Scriptability Information

• Creating Suite Files or 'aete' Files from a Scripting Definition

• Creating Scripting Definitions from Suite Files or 'aete' Files

• Updating Older Scripting Definition Files for Mac OS X Version 10.4

• Editing Scriptability Information

• Script Suite Files

• The Structure of a Script Suite File

• Script Terminology Files

• The Structure of a Script Terminology File

• Cocoa Scripting’s Built-in Script Suites

• Creating Your Own Script Suite Files