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xin vui lòng lưu ý rằng một số hoặc tất cả các chức năng thảo luận có thể không có sẵn cho bạn. Nếu bạn đang sử dụng phiên bản mới hơn của phần mềm này, sau đó bạn cần phải nhận thức rằng các khía cạnh nhất định của phần mềm có thể khác nhau đôi chút giữa các phiên bản. Bất kể các phiên bản phần mềm bạn đang sử dụng | Chapter 8 Introduction to Developing for Automator c o far this book has focused on exploring aspects of the Automator application itself from a user s perspective including locating actions building workflows and more. This chapter begins the developer section of the book. Throughout the remainder of the book we will explore how you can begin to expand Automator s capabilities by developing your own actions which can interact with Apple s applications third-party applications or the system. Related Technologies Overview Developing Automator actions involves a number of technologies. This chapter will provide brief introductions to those technologies before we get started with full-blown development of custom actions. Throughout this chapter and the remainder of this book the following technologies will be discussed 4 Xcode 4 Interface Builder 4 AppleScript 4 Cocoa 4 Objective-C If you are already familiar with these technologies feel free to skim this chapter or skip ahead to Chapter 9. Introduction to Xcode Xcode is a complete suite of integrated tools libraries and interfaces provided to developers by Apple for use in developing Mac OS X-compatible software. Using Xcode developers can move through the complete process of constructing a software product from 88 Chapter 8 Introduction to Developing for Automator concept and design through development testing and deployment. The primary component of the Xcode tools package is the Xcode application which provides an integrated development environment for constructing customized software products including applications system components and command line tools. Xcode includes a fully featured code editor a debugger compilers for a number of languages and a linker. The basis for development in Xcode is the project a collection of all the files that together come together to build the final product. A project may consist of source files resources settings executables interfaces and any other components necessary for the