Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Apple events and PSN ... bug?

[Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

In article <v04020a1db34cf4499b41@[192.168.0.77]>, Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> writes:

> This seems to me it should work.  I confirm that the PSN I get from
> Mac::Processes (in this case, 8208) is indeed the decimal number
> corresponding to the hex PSN that an app called Process Watcher tells me is
> assigned to BBEdit (2010).  So I seem to have the right number.  But the
> script produces:

> $evt = AEBuildAppleEvent(qw(aevt quit), typeProcessSerialNumber, $psn,
>     kAutoGenerateReturnID, kAnyTransactionID, '') or warn $^E;

If I remember correctly, I take no precautions to transform a numerical
psn you pass into binary form. Try pack()ing the PSN to a 64 bit number first.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
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