AppleScript

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AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. that facilitates automated control of Mac applications. The term AppleScript may refer to the scripting language, to a script written in the language, or to the macOS Open Scripting Architecture that underlies the language. AppleScript is primarily a mechanism for driving Apple events – an inter-application communication (IAC) technology that exchanges data between and controls applications. AppleScript is tightly bound to the Mac environment, similar to how Windows Script Host is bound to the Windows environment, as opposed to a general purpose programming language. One way that AppleScript is bound to the unique aspects of its environment is that it relies on applications to publish dictionaries of addressable objects and operations. Additionally, AppleScript supports basic calculations and text processing, and is extensible via scripting additions that add functions to the language. While it has aspects of structured, procedural...

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