Tutorials for AppleScript

Use AppleScript with Photoshop to resize the image and canvas by adjusting the image size and canvas dimensions in pixels, using Script Editor to modify the current document.

Automate Photoshop tasks with AppleScript by scripting the document, selections, colors, and layer groups, aligning commands with current documents and variables.

Automate Photoshop tasks with AppleScript by creating documents, organizing layers and groups, and linking layers.

Learn how to use AppleScript with Photoshop to apply filters to images. Open the image and use AppleScript with Photoshop filters on the current document.

Learn to control Photoshop actions with AppleScript through copy and paste, selecting content, creating new documents, and placing images efficiently.

Learn how AppleScript interacts with Microsoft Word basics, creating and opening documents, and selecting templates. Automate writing and dictation tasks in Word using AppleScript editor, and manage documents and templates.

Explore using AppleScript to interact with Microsoft Word, creating and editing a document, inserting text, selecting ranges, and applying basic text operations within a Word file.

Learn how AppleScript interacts with Microsoft Word to automate document creation and manage hypertext features.

Learn how to use AppleScript with Microsoft Word to insert images and edit documents, ensuring images stay in place and integrate smoothly into your Word workflows.

Learn how to save a document in Microsoft Word using AppleScript, including opening a document, editing content, and handling simple name changes within automation workflows.

Record simple actions in AppleScript by capturing window position (x and y), size, and repeated steps, then play back with optional delays to automate tasks.

Use AppleScript with Excel by opening Script Editor, selecting Microsoft Excel, and creating and managing Excel workbooks and Word documents through basic scripting commands.

Explore how AppleScript interacts with Excel to create and manage sheets, insert data, set properties, and handle deletions with confirmations.

Learn to automate Excel data tasks with AppleScript by targeting the active workbook and sheets, defining named ranges, and reading or writing data within ranges.

Learn how AppleScript interacts with Excel to save, open, and manage documents and data on the desktop.

Open and control Microsoft PowerPoint presentations using AppleScript basics, including opening, activating, selecting templates, creating and presenting a presentation, and closing the file.

Open a PowerPoint presentation, create new slides, and edit content with AppleScript. Adjust text ranges, fonts, and colors using RGB values to shape headers and slide layout.

Learn how to use AppleScript to insert images into PowerPoint slides, adjust sizing and shapes without losing image quality, and manage layout in presentations.

Learn how to set colors and apply textures and background textures in PowerPoint to enhance slide design.

Learn to use AppleScript with PowerPoint to apply transition effects and control slide show timing. Configure transitions for each slide and start the slide show, including closing after five seconds.

Explore saving a PowerPoint presentation with AppleScript, including locating the file in documents, performing the save, and confirming the presentation is saved.

Learn calendar basics by creating a calendar, naming calendars, opening and viewing calendars, and managing selections and calendar names.

Learn to switch the calendar view in AppleScript tutorials, changing between day, month, and year and setting the active date.

Subscribe to a calendar via a calendar link, enable reminders to appear in your calendar, and learn to configure this setup from your editor in AppleScript tutorials.

Learn to work with calendar events in AppleScript: create and edit events, set day dates, times, durations (all day or one hour), add location and description, and view event details.

Learn to automate calendar events and alarms with AppleScript, manage dates and scheduling across days, and handle deferring or closing events.

Discover how to create and manage calendar events and reminders with AppleScript, including setting daily to-dos and organizing reminders for efficient scheduling.

Open your editor and explore iTunes basics using AppleScript, learn to play tracks, switch tracks, and manage playlists.

Learn how to query the iTunes player state and respond to playback changes with AppleScript, including stopping a playing track when its state changes.

Master working with iTunes tracks in AppleScript by copying, duplicating, naming, and opening tracks to automate common track tasks.

Explore using AppleScript to recognize an album in iTunes and manage track names. Learn to rename items and select soundtrack within the music library.

Learn how to recognize and work with the selected tracks in iTunes using AppleScript, including selecting items, retrieving track names, and inspecting track data.

Learn how to work with iTunes pause position by creating a variable to hold the pause position and control track playback.

Learn how iTunes sorts tracks by ascending index, fixes indexing, and rearranges the current playlist as you set the current track.

Explore AppleScript for iTunes by learning how to view and interact with tracks in the current iTunes setup, counting tracks, and navigating the iTunes view.

Apply AppleScript to configure iTunes encoder settings, adjust current options, and convert audio through step-by-step parameter changes.

Learn to create and manage iTunes playlists, including naming playlists and ensuring song durations fit within two hours. The lecture demonstrates selecting songs, displaying items by duration, and creating playlists.

Learn to open and edit an AppleScript, select a track in iTunes, and perform delete and duplicate operations safely in music management.

Explore the color picker in AppleScript and understand color value ranges from 0 to 255 and 0 to 65535, and learn how to adjust color codes and defaults.

Open media files and set up a playback window in QuickTime Player using AppleScript. Control playback and document loading to demonstrate basic QuickTime operations in this AppleScript tutorial.

Learn how to use QuickTime Player to open files, play video, and pause playback, applying basic controls to manage documents and video tasks.

Learn to use Quick Time Player in fullscreen and manage document changes as you progress through this AppleScript tutorial, preparing you for the next lesson.

Explore a playful school lesson set in Egypt, navigating cycles and changes with documents, gates, and weather as the scene shifts toward the next lesson.

Build a Cocoa AppleScript hello world app by creating a project, setting up a graphical user interface, and wiring a hello label to an Objective-C-based base class.

Build a book application and learn how to change text color in Cocoa using AppleScript, updating labels, columns, and color settings in the UI.

Explore Cocoa AppleScript by wiring buttons to actions, using the inspector to rename elements, and implementing click events to update names and stats in practical examples.

Explore how to use AppleScript with a TextView in Cocoa, respond to events, manipulate text fields and interfaces, and connect actions and methods.

Explore the Cocoa - AppleScript say it project, detailing sign-up workflows, text and call prompts, and step-by-step actions as described in the lecture caption.

Explore Cocoa - AppleScript workflows to manage items, names, and color changes, execute actions, and avoid duplicates through sector settings.

learn to apply Auto Layout constraints in Cocoa with AppleScript, aligning views to bottom, left, center and edges, managing spacing and border space, and adapting to window resizing.

Explore building a Cocoa AppleScript custom controller by combining multiple classes under delegation, using a custom class and object inspector to manage actions and window interactions.

Learn how to open a browser with AppleScript, using a button to launch a URL, inspect elements, and handle default browser settings.

Learn how to write a file using Cocoa and AppleScript by opening a file, writing text from a text field, and closing the session.

Learn to drag and drop files into AppleScript to feed data into scripts, open and process files, and create more convenient screens.

Learn how to run AppleScript from the terminal, write and save scripts, and use bash to interact with AppleScript variables and commands.

Explore how to run terminal commands from AppleScript, compare bash and shell approaches, and follow practical examples to integrate command-line operations into your projects.

Learn how to bind AppleScript to a folder using folder actions, attach your script via services, and configure actions to trigger the script.

Learn how to refer to user interface applications in AppleScript by using System Events, enable permissions to click UI elements, and locate and interact with menus and main menu items.

Learn how to prepare and publish AppleScript scripts, test results, and distribute your scripts online to reach audiences, while understanding practical steps for script distribution.

Navigate the developer center to prepare and publish your application, set its name and language, craft descriptions, assign age rating and purchases, and manage provisioning profiles and certificates for publication.