Re: [MacPerl] Millions of Questions from a Newbie

[manutter@grove.iup.edu (Mark Nutter)]

>Do I actually (in both AppleScript and MacPerl) have to make myself an
>AppleEvent, or does stdout automatically get sent back?

In MacPerl you can just print, but in AppleScript (Argh, I'm rustier than I
thought on this!) I believe what you do is return a big long string of
text.

>Also, this means
>that the user must wait for the whole page to be generated before they
>see any output, right?  Is there a way to send part of the page back, and
>then more when it's ready?

I'm not clear on this one myself.  Anybody?

>p.s.  Is the max content for an AppleEvent 32k?

I believe it's somewhat less than that, due to overhead.  Did someone say
something like 27K or so?  I'm not terribly clear on this one either.

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