AppleScripts by Tom X. OnMyCommand. Script Software - Essential Mac Automation for Everyone with iKey. Adam C.
Engst is the author of the "Take Control of iKey" Manual. His manual helps you install iKey and provides a step by step usage tutorial for this essential software. Adam started the TidBits newsletter and has written numerous technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles. March 2013 Tutorial "Using Ableton Live with iKey"Fran Cotton's in depth tutorial shows why iKey is essential for using Ableton Live 9. This is essential if you work and spend a lot of time with audio.
Replacing AppleScript with Ruby. By Matt Neuburg 02/27/2007 When a Mac application is said to be scriptable, this usually means that it is scriptable through AppleScript.
The application supplies a dictionary that translates between (on the one hand) some English-like vocabulary, employed by the end user while targeting the application with the AppleScript language, and (on the other hand) the Apple events that constitute the medium of interapplication communication on Mac OS. My book, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, describes and teaches the AppleScript language, but it also bemoans that language's many failings. I won't enumerate those failings here; let's just stipulate that for some users, typically those with some experience of other programming languages, scripting Mac applications via Apple events would be a much more pleasant experience if AppleScript weren't involved.