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OCR: TECHNO BABBLE Control Statements These are statements that control the flow of a script, and include: 'tell' 'if' 'repeat' and 'try' They all follow similar structure, and all end with an 'end' statement. Variables A named container of information To create variable just specify its contents. Example: set myVariable to "Joe Bloggs' creates variable called myVariable with the text "Joe Bloggs as its contents The Result An AppleScript-defined variable (i.e. you can't define this as variable yourself) that contains the result if any of the last command which would have returned result to the script, like the button clicked or text entered To see the result in the Script Editor choose Show Result from the Controls menu Conditions Conditions are way of making decisions in scripts, and controlli ...