Developer(s) Apple Inc. License Proprietary | Operating system | |
Stable release 2.9 / July 6, 2016; 7 months ago (2016-07-06) Type Code editor, script editor Website developer.apple.com/applescript/ | ||
AppleScript Editor, formerly and more recently known as Script Editor, is a code editor for the AppleScript scripting language, included in classic Mac OS and macOS. AppleScript Editor provides basic debugging capabilities and can save AppleScripts as plain text (.applescript), as a compiled script (.scpt), as a script bundle (.scptd), or as an application (.app). AppleScript Editor also handles script dictionary files, allowing the user to see what scripting classes and commands are available for each scriptable application installed on the computer.
Prior to Mac OS X 10.3, Script Editor was developed using Carbon. 10.3 introduced a new Script Editor written using Cocoa.
History
AppleScript Editor was known as "Script Editor" until Mac OS X 10.6. Also, in OS X 10.10 it was renamed back to "Script Editor", likely because of the introduction of JavaScript for Automation.