Applescript? CORRECTION

[David Burgun]

Hi,

What does revCheckQuit do? I can't find anything about it in the  
documentation.

Also what does:

exit to top

do? I can't find this form (top) of exit documented either. The  
"pass" documentation in the dictionary also shows a "top" parameter  
too, but doesn't say what it does, except that it was added in  
version 2.1!


Thanks a lot
All the Best
Dave

On 29 Mar 2006, at 02:12, Jim Ault wrote:

> DON'T USE THE PREVIOUS APPLEEVENT HANDLER
> --I included 1 bug ==> "aevtdosc" rather than miscdosc"
> --and a dangling comment
> FIxed here.
>
> To be clear, Rev 2.2.1 allowed the "do script" to be sent from another
> program to Rev and trigger a handler. I used this form.
>
> Then, version 2.5.1 no longer would respond automatically, but  
> required
> adding an AppleEvent handler that would trap AppleEvents, then  
> parse the
> parameters to find what kind of call and which handler to process.
>
> EXPERIMENT
> goal [1] to get it to work simply
> goal [2] to see double, triple call results
> goal [3] to see 'answer dialog' difficulties
>
> Here is how to call a handler in the current stack script or  
> further along
> the message hierarchy
> --in Script Editor [goal 1]
> tell application "Revolution"
>     «event miscdosc» " testHandlerA"
> end tell
>
> where 'misc' is appleevent class miscellaneous
> 'dosc' is do script
> ' testHandlerA' is the handler name
>
> in Rev (1) make a new main stack
> (2) paste the following TWO handlers into the main stack script
> (3) switch from pointer mode to browse mode
> (4) make sure your new stack is in front.
> (5) empty the message box to see the output
> (6) for some reason with 2.6.1 in the IDE it was necessary for me  
> to go from
> browse mode to pointer mode and back again to get the AS call to  
> work each
> time.
>
> --script 1 --
> on appleEvent p1, p2, p3
>
>   request AppleEvent data
>   put cr & p1&& p2 && p3 && it after msg
>
>   if p1 & p2 is "aevtquit" then
>     if the mode of stack "answer dialog" is not 0 then exit to top  
> -- dialog
> on screen
>     revCheckQuit
>     if the result is "quit" then
>       lock messages -- prevent duplicate shutDownRequest
>       quit
>     else
>       exit appleEvent
>     end if
>   end if
>   if p1&p2 is "aevtodoc" then
>     --appleEvent sent when stack is opened from the finder
>     request AppleEvent data
>     put it into tData
>     repeat for each line l in tData
>       lock messages
>       put (there is a stack l) into tExists
>       unlock messages
>       if not tExists then answer error "Unable to open stack: stack is
> corrupted, check for ~ backup file."
>       else go stack l
>     end repeat
>     exit appleEvent
>   end if
>   if p1&p2 is "miscdosc" then
>     request AppleEvent data
>     put it into tData
>     try
>       --do tData
>       send tData to me in 500 milliseconds
>     catch errorMsg
>       answer error "Unable to execute handler '"&tData&"'..."
>       exit appleEvent
>     end try
>     exit appleEvent
>   end if
>
>   pass appleEvent
> end appleEvent
>
> on testHandlerA
>   --answer "You got here via AS  !!!"
>   put cr& "You got here via AS  !!!    another fine functionality"  
> after msg
> end testHandlerA
>
> on testHandlerB
>   --answer "The BBBBB version  !!!" after msg
>   put cr& "The B version  !!!    " after msg
> end testHandlerB
> ---------------------------  end copy of code here ------
> --CAUTION  this will cause a dialog box to show and point out another
> gotcha... the calling Applescript will not complete until Rev  
> completes the
> AppleEvent handler.  Therefore, you should use the 'send' command  
> in Rev
>
> as follows :
> send tData to me in 500 milliseconds
>
>
> EXPERIMENT
> Now try adding another event
> tell application "Revolution"
>     «event miscdosc» "testHandlerA"
>     «event miscdosc» "testHandlerB excessData"
>
>     set readyFlag to "true"
>     «event miscdosc» "testHandlerB " & readyFlag
>
>     set story to "A fine sunny day in the garden"
>     «event miscdosc» "testHandlerB " & story
>
> end tell
>
> EXPERIMENT
> Now try using the 'do' line and not the 'send' line
> Note the order of execution!!
>
> EXPERIMENT
> Now try using answer dialogs with and without 'send'
>
> Thanks to the great work of Ken Ray
> Valuable links
> http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/ascr004.htm
>
> http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm
>
> Hope you find this useful
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
> On 3/28/06 1:56 PM, "Troy Rollins" <troy_lists at rpsystems.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Klaus Major wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> My Applescript tool (Late Night Software's "Script Debugger X")
>>>> claims that Revolution is not scriptable, where it used to show
>>>> support for "do script"... any ideas?
>>>
>>> I have asked this a couple of times on this list some time ago, but
>>> nobody seemed
>>> to care or answered my question...
>>
>> Ah. So, it isn't just mine.
>>
>> Darn.
>>
>> --
>> Troy
>> RPSystems, Ltd.
>> http://www.rpsystems.net
>>
>>
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