Larry, If you start up Script Editor on your macintosh, than under the help area is an AppleScript guide. Essentially you send messages to an application and they will send back replies that can then be stored in variables. In the more recent Apple OS's you can also use JavaScript for the base language.
I generally try to divide what I am attempting to script into small blocks and get those tested. So for example if I am wanting to automate the saving of attachments from a specific e-mail into a folder, I created an AppleScript command to do this function and tested it out quite a bit. To start writing a function you do something like on SaveMessageAttachments from MessageList to aFolder End SaveMessageAttachments In this example MessageList and aFolder are variables. In the block of the SaveMessageAttachments you might do something like tell mail repeat with aMessage in MessageList set FileName to subject of a Message end tell tell finder set StorageFolder to make new Folder with name FileName End Tell tell mail repeat with OneAttachment in ( attachments of theMessage ) copy OneAttachment to StorageFolder End Repeat End Repeat There are really very few builtin commands in AppleScript most of the work involves getting properties of things and performing actions on things. Some of the properties of things give you new things like the attachments property of a Mail message. I started a mailing list to discuss automation on the Macintosh but we never got very far. If you have ideas and want to join, I will be glad to provide any support needed. I am so used to doing things already, that I generally don't go for scripting except at the shell script level Best Wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 7:01 PM Larry Thacker Jr. < larry.thacker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there resources you would recommend for learning AppleScript? I think > that is the next step in my education if I want to become as efficient with > the Mac as I was with Windows. As for my search for sanity. I think I > have abandoned that. > > *Larry Thacker Jr.* > http://www.lionsrealm.net > http://twitter.com/lthackerjr > http://facebook.com/larry.thacker.jr > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
