• AppleScript and Scriptable Applications

• The AppleScript Object Model

• 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

• Create a Scripting Definition File

• Add Information to the Scripting Definition File

• Overview of Getting and Setting Values

• Key-Value Coding and Cocoa Scripting

• Sample KVC-Compliant Accessor Methods

• Special Accessor Methods

• Support for the Properties Property

• Coercion

• Overview of Object Specifiers

• Cocoa Object Specifier Classes

• Implementing the Object Specifier Method

• Implementing A Method for Evaluating Object Specifiers

• Implicitly Specified Subcontainers

• Script Commands Overview

• Implementing an Object-First Command—Rotate

• Implementing a Verb-First Command—Align

• Modifying a Standard Command

• Summary of AppleScript Command Support

• Scriptability Test Plan

• Use AppleScript Scripts to Test Your Application

• Turn On Debugging Output for Scripting

• Debugging Scriptability Information

• 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

• Apple Events Sent by the Mac OS

• Installing an Apple Event Handler

• Suspending and Resuming Apple Events and Script Commands

• Scriptability Terms

• Changes in Scriptability Information Versions

• Converting and Updating Scriptability Information

• Editing Scriptability Information

• Script Suite Files

• Script Terminology Files

• Cocoa Scripting’s Built-in Script Suites

• Creating Your Own Script Suite Files