Re: [MacPerl] Using MPW to create CGIs

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

"Patton, Paul B (MN10)" <Paul.B.Patton@hbc.honeywell.com> writes:
>Question: What is the best way for a MPW build command to generate
>a MacPerl MacHTTP CGI Script?

Probably some Rez command line.

>I read through the MacPerl.Frontend document and it looks like
>MacPerl's "Save" AppleScript event is intended to automate this job
>but I don't know how to invoke it from MPW and I don't know what glue
>might be needed.

AppleScripts from MPW seem to be a little unstable, although I'm not sure why.
Sending an AppleEvent directly would be preferrable.

>script itself is in an easy-to-understand TEXT resource, but there is
>a binary resource of type TFSS, id 255, that varies quite a lot, I
>don't know what its purpose is, and I don't know how to generate it
>except via MacPerl.

The TFSS stores window dimensions, the font, the size, and maybe a few other
things. Simply copying it should be OK (The variations come from the fact that
I don't zero out some Str255, but are harmless).

Matthias

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