examples accepting appleevents

Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 9 22:51:16 EST 2005


Hello,

On 11/6/05 8:55 PM, "Andre Garzia" <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
> I am doing that right now, if you want I can build a sample stack for
> you and send to you tomorrow (it's 2:53 AM now, am not thinking well)

It has been a few days now, and I was wondering if Andre actually did write
the sample stack.  I would be interested in knowing more about the
Applescript techniques involved.  I have done a few of my own, but don't
have the time to explore or optimize.

Thanks,

 Jim Ault
Las Vegas 

> 
> On Nov 7, 2005, at 2:43 AM, kee nethery wrote:
> 
>> Can someone point me to where I might go to see an example of one
>> stack communicating with another stack via appleevents (on MacOSX)?
>> I'm not exactly sure how to pass data via appleevents and have the
>> other app catch them and reply back.
>> 
>> Want to pass the data that would be needed to send an email message
>> and then get back a response saying the email was sent.
>> 
>> I know this is simple, just have not figured it out. I can send
>> commands to pre-existing apps and make them sing and dance. But
>> I've no clue how to send commands when there is no dictionary.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Kee Nethery
> 
> Kee,
> 
> I am doing that right now, if you want I can build a sample stack for
> you and send to you tomorrow (it's 2:53 AM now, am not thinking well)
> 
> There's a message called AppleEvent that you can use to handle events.
> There's "send to program" that you can use to send events.
> There's "request from program" that also sends events.
> There's "reply to program" that does the reply.
> 
> cheers.
> andre
> 
> 
> 
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