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| • Mac OS X Cocoa application development • AppleScript and AppleScript Studio scripting • Apple Help authoring |
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| William J. Cheeseman, Principal bill@cheeseman.name |
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| P.O. Box 326 547 Greeley Shunpike Quechee, VT 05059-0326 tel 802 295-9120 |
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Contact Quechee Software for Mac OS X application development in Objective-C using Apple's Cocoa frameworks, or to outsource your AppleScript and AppleScript Studio scripting projects. We also design and author Apple Help books for your applications. We offer reasonable rates and unparalleled experience and expertise. |
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| • Vermont RecipesA Cocoa Cookbook
A practical, no-nonsense, hands-on, step-by-step tutorial, walking you through the details of building a Cocoa application for Mac OS X from start to finish using the Objective-C programming language. The official Web site for the Peachpit Press book. |
• PreFab UI Browser
The ultimate assistant for Apple's GUI Scripting technology, UI Browser helps you to explore, manipulate and monitor the user interface of most Mac OS X applications. It understands the arrangement of their user interface elements and enables you, with a single click, to generate useful AppleScript statements to control and automate them. We wrote this Cocoa application in collaboration with PreFab Software, Inc. |
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| • The AppleScript Sourcebook
A repository of information about AppleScript, a system-level scripting language for Macintosh, including news, tips and example scripts. Now maintained by MacScripter.net |
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| • PreFab UI Actions
UI Actions implements "universal attachability" for AppleScript. With UI Actions, you attach an AppleScript script to a native Mac OS X application. From then on, the script will be triggered automatically every time the user performs the actions you specify in the target application. A UI Action script can respond to all manner of user actions, such as opening or closing a window, selecting a menu item, editing a text field and many others. We wrote this Cocoa application in collaboration with PreFab Software, Inc. |
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| • Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes
21 recipes in 750 pages showing how to write a Cocoa application for Mac OS X. Published by Peachpit Press in 2002. |
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| • AppleScript Studio: An Introduction
MacTech Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2002). A detailed description and assessment of the first release of AppleScript Studio, Apple's new framework for building AppleScript applications in the Mac OS X Cocoa environment with a full user interface . |
• PreFab Event Taps Testbench 1.0
A free utility to help Mac OS X developers explore Quartz event taps. With event taps, an application can monitor, repond to, and modify user input events from the keyboard, mouse, scroll wheel and tablet pointer in any application running on the computer. We wrote this Cocoa application in collaboration with PreFab Software, Inc. |
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| • AppleScript Studio: Implementing an Application Preferences System
MacTech Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 5 (May 2002). The first installment of a two-part article demonstrating how to write an AppleScript Studio application. This part implements a preferences system using traditional AppleScript file reading and writing techniques. |
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| Representative Clients: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| • Apress LP
We performed prepublication technical review of AppleScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X (2004), by Hanaan Rosenthal. |
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| • AppleScript Studio: Implementing a Document-Based Application
MacTech Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 7 (July 2002). The second installment of a two-part article demonstrating how to write an AppleScript Studio application. This part implements a document using native Cocoa file reading and writing techniques. |
• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
We performed prepublication technical review of AppleScript in a Nutshell (2001), by Bruce W. Perry, "the first complete reference to AppleScript." |
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| • Power On Software Inc.
We redesigned the AppleScript terminology dictionary and wrote the example scripts for Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.0. |
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| • The AppleScript Scorecard Guidelines
MacTech Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 1998), with Cal Simone. Guidelines for designing proper AppleScript terminology dictionaries. |
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| • Main Event Software, Inc.
We designed and wrote the Apple Help book for Scripter 2.5 and Scripter Personal Edition, powerful editors and debuggers for AppleScript developers for the Classic Mac OS. |
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| Profile: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| • Featured on Apple Hot News
Bill Cheeseman was featured in an Apple Hot News story in August 2002, "AppleScript Studio: a marvelously easy environment." (No longer available) |
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