Inheritance and Delegation
You can use AppleScript's inheritance mechanism to define related script objects in terms of one another. This allows you to share property and handler definitions among many script objects without repeating the shared definitions.This section describes
- how to a define a script object that inherits properties and handlers from another script object
- how inheritance works
- how to use the Continue statement to extend the behavior of an inherited handler without completely replacing it
Subtopics
- Defining Inheritance
- How Inheritance Works
- The Continue Statement
- Using Continue Statements to Pass Commands to Applications
- The Parent Property and the Current Application