Updated Web Pages AppleScript 1.4.0 is a discussion of changes to the dictionaries of scriptable system components in Mac OS 9 at The AppleScript Sourcebook site. This page is posssibly the most extensive and updated tabulated comparison of features on the Internet. The AppleScript Sourcebook has had a complete and very stylish redo, featuring over 300 new news items and links. During the next year the series will also be compiled into a book. The October issue covers using existing scripts from the scripts menu, custom spreadsheet functions, applets and minor editing to change properties.
Subsequent articles cover events, inheritance, and so on.
Although using AppleWorks for most of the exercises, the series teaches the fundamentals of AppleScript applicable to any application. Smile, Scripter, and Script Debugger. Each of these tools has features for making your script writing more productive. Each of these script writing tools will be demonstrated by someone who uses them regularly. If you are still using the Script Editor from Apple that installs with the Mac OS, you probably won't be after this meeting.