Apple Events?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Todd,

I wrote this while you were experimenting with apple events.

It always seemed illogical to me to put an appleEvent handler into  
the card script, because normally you want the handler to run  
regardless of which card is the current card. If the event cannot be  
handled for whatever reason, you would still want to give feedback to  
tell the user that whatever he did is not allowed.

You can send AppleEvents from AppleScript, but there are also many  
user actions that cause an AppleEvent. The most important one  
probably being the even that is sent if a file is double-clicked in  
the Finder. To test this, tell the Finder to open a file with your  
standalone (change this in the Info window). Double-click the file  
and see what happens.

It should be possible to run an AppleScript script like this:

tell application "Revolution"
   «event abcd1234» "Event Data"
end tell

abcd is the class, 1234 the ID, and you get the string "Event Data"  
using the Transcript syntax

request appleEvent data

Now, this doesn't work, for reasons explained by Ken. There is an  
aete resource in Revolution, but it seems incomplete, as it doesn't  
even contain a required suite. I checked ftp.metacard.com, but there  
is no OSX version of MetaCard available there, anymore. If anyone  
could send me the aete resource from the MetaCard engine for OSX,  
which is needed to get apple events working, I would be very grateful.

There is also some good news: the above AppleScript works fine in Mac  
OS 9, with the Classic version of Revolution 2.6.1.

I think that the incomplete aete resource is quite essential for Mac  
OS users. If it is not in Bugzilla yet, I believe it should be reported.

Best,

Mark

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Op 4-jun-2006, om 22:14 heeft Todd Geist het volgende geschreven:
>
> Thanks Mark!
>
> But then what do I do?
>
> Lets suppose I want to send Apple Events from Rev for the moment.  Can
> I target this lettle Rev App with an Applescript? Will it then report
> the Apple event syntax that I need to usse?
>
> Also I noticed that the docs say to place the appleEvent Message
> handler in the "current card script, not the stack script. Does  it
> matter?  Or will the message just go throught the current card first
> then on to the stack?
>
>
> Thanks Again?
>
> Todd