Instead of lengthy abstract explanations you'll actually see a desktop and a script editor with active menus and buttons. You are presented with a real-life environment in which you are guided through the steps towards one or more useful scripts. If you haven't seen the earlier issues, you can download them from MacInstruct. If you run a script, and run it again, the script has forgotten the values of the variables had after the first run. In the fourth issue of MacScripter's Magazine, we show you how to remember a value between runs.
Droplets are great.
Just drop a file or folder onto a droplet, and the droplet' s script is fired up. You can use droplets, for example, to change the creator code of files, thus making sure they are opened in your favourite program. The last two chapters make use of a free osax by Leonard Rosenthol. Enhanced by it, AppleScript can process text and do powerful searches. As a bonus, we have included the Muncher, which sports four useful scripts.