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AppleScript Studio Components

AppleScript Studio is a combination of a development environment and an application framework that lets you quickly build AppleScript Studio applications—Mac OS X applications that combine AppleScript scripts and Cocoa user-interface objects. It also supplies enhanced scripting capabilities to Cocoa applications.

AppleScript Studio makes use of features from AppleScript, Xcode, Interface Builder, and the Cocoa application framework. See “About AppleScript Studio” for a brief introduction to AppleScript Studio.

This chapter describes, in the following sections, the key features you use to create AppleScript Studio applications:

• “AppleScript Overview” describes the scripting system you use in AppleScript Studio.

• “Xcode Features for AppleScript Studio” describes AppleScript Studio–specific features in this integrated development environment.

• “Interface Builder Features for AppleScript Studio” describes features for creating user interfaces for AppleScript Studio applications.

• “Cocoa Framework Overview” describes the sophisticated application framework you use to create AppleScript Studio applications.

• “AppleScriptKit Framework Overview” describes the framework that allows AppleScript Studio applications to script Cocoa user interface objects.

For additional overview information, see the chapter “Terminology Fundamentals” in AppleScript Studio Terminology Reference.

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