Product Description
This definitive guide is the first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting Userland Frontier, a powerful scripting environment for Web site management and system level scripting. Packed with examples, advice, tricks, and tips,
Frontier: The Definitive Guide teaches you Frontier from the ground up. Learn how to automate repetitive processes, control remote computers across a network, beef up your Web site by generating hundreds of related Web pages automatically, and more. Whether you're a complete Frontier beginner or an experienced hand in need of a clear, ordered reference, you'll find what you need to make the most of Frontier. Even if you've never programmed before, you'll be cranking out Web pages or writing your own custom scripts in no time, joining the ranks of thousands of Macintosh power users who make Frontier their "home base." (Covers Frontier 4.2.3 for the Macintosh.) This book covers Frontier's:
- Simple but sophisticated multithreaded scripting language (UserTalk) and its elegant debugging environment
- Integrated database with instant access to data, text, outlines, and tables
- Totally automated environment, where scripts can create dialogs, open windows, edit text, alter menus
- Ability to hook into the system and to read and write files, open documents, and read the clipboard
- Capacity for sending and receiving Apple events, so it can drive any scriptable application and be integrated into other scripting applications
- Network capability to function as a client or server over AppleTalk or the Internet
About the Author
Neuburg writes for the venerable online Macintosh publication TidBITS. He has a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek and has taught at many universities.