Complete AppleScript Language Dictionary

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Created Mar ’21

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Many valuable, valid AppleScript terms (e.g., "AXRaise") are not documented in the AppleScript command, statement, value, handler, event, object, keyword, and class references, etc., that are published on developer.apple.com (e.g., at https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/introduction/ASLR_intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000983).

Has Apple (or anyone else) ever compiled a complete, comprehensive dictionary or list of all of the terms that are available and valid for use within AppleScript?

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red_menace OP

Mar ’21

Those terms are not part of the AppleScript language itself, so you aren’t going to find them in the AppleScript Language Guide (although they are available from the System Events processes suite). You can use something like the Accessibility Inspector application (included with Xcode) to find which terms are used for any given UI element - the terms themselves are defined in macros or constants in the various Cocoa frameworks, such as Application Services.

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