All sorts of cool new stuff. See the docs online at: http://pudge.net/macperl/ There is a link to a intro doc, which has a link to the distribution and README (coming soon to a CPAN archive near you) and the HTML-ized POD. I really think this is ready for everyone to install and start playing with. It seems stable (as stable as Apple events can be :) and fast and the interface is not going to change much, I think. All I need to do now is add a few more features and iron out any bugs that you may find. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Monday, June 7, 1999 THIS IS ALPHA CODE AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR CRASH YOUR COMPUTER IN THE MEANTIME. I'm not just saying that, I mean it. Note: gluenotes.pod is deprecated now. All current documentation is in this file and the Mac::Glue POD. Please read this README. Mac::Glue is not self-explanatory. Some assembly is required. WHAT THIS IS - ------------ It is an architecture for using Apple event terminology in MacPerl. It is cool. It is very unfinished. GETTING STARTED - --------------- NOTE: some of the modules installed by cpan-mac and this distribution might be older than versions you have installed (though in most cases, that's unlikely). If you install modules on your own often, peruse the blib directory for modules you might not want to overwrite ones you have installed. Install the cpan-mac distribution (0.22 is the latest version) if you haven't already. In your Preferences, set site_perl as a libraries path (so it will come before your main MacPerl lib directory). Put the modules where they belong. Everything need that doesn't come with MacPerl or cpan-mac is here, including updated modules Mac::AppleEvents::Simple, Mac::AppleEvents & Mac::Memory (including shared libraries), Mac::AETE, and Mac::Glue itself. For reference, Mac::Memory has a bug fixed in Handle::get, where a null descriptor record would return garbled data. Mac::AppleEvents has its constants inlined, and has three functions added: AEPutKey, AEPutKeyDesc, and AEGetKey. See the POD in Mac::AppleEvents::Simple and Mac::Glue for their changes. The best way to install all this is with the installme program from the cpan-mac distribution. However, because we install our own new ExtUtils::MM_MacOS and AutoSplit modules, you will need to run installme on this distribution TWICE. Kinda lame, but oh well. cpan-mac can be found at: http://www.perl.com/authors/id/CNANDOR/ This will put everything in the right place, and autosplit where necessary, and make life simple. HOWEVER, you might want to back up old modules and files that are being installed here, because the existing files in the site_perl directory will be deleted if they exist. This is not an official release of any of the extra modules included with this distribution (like Mac::AppleEvents and Mac::AETE). After installing, you need to run the gluedialect program and then the gluescriptadds program. Then, for each application you want to script, drop it on the gluemac droplet. Applications should not be running, in general, when dropped on the droplet (though in some cases it will work anyway, and in some cases the droplet will launch the application for you to get the needed information). First program you should drop on the droplet is probably the Finder. For each example script in this distribution you want to try, run the applications through the droplet first. PLAYING - ------- Seems to be pretty stable so far. Please play and read the notes and feed back to macperl-modules (see http://www.macperl.org/ for more details). Feel free to send any feedback, including patched, to the list. - -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i for non-commercial use Comment: Bwahahahaha! iQCVAwUBN1wt+ChcZja3bnKtAQFeNQP/Xlai66CWJOivRvavOMpGRFq03YFoxuBJ Jfc2BHyyXLLBL1N52A4gCnA10is8umcE/Dq9Fa64jiq6L5KEV3iJPpkUq1c3QUIJ tyOLp4OYh2C5k7M7C6EJ1AmobNQmfBTL1sKi2iEoyeHmpolPvixl8zATiCG9R3Nm tDVHj3Qr2aw= =m7dI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-modules-request@macperl.org