Re: [MacPerl] AppleEvents from Perl vs. Perl from Frontier?

[David Schooley <schooley@ee.gatech.edu>]

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> 
> I have probably used AppleEvents from MacPerl as much as almost anyone,
> and I definitely like it as an alternative to AppleScript.  The big
> drawbacks are (1) figuring out exactly how to do the Apple Events (the
> cookbook is a big help here) and (2) figuring out how to call what Apple
> Events for which app.  I use a combination of Frontier's ae table, the
> AppleScript Dictionary info, and the documentation for the app.
 
Given that MacPerl can read resources, it might be worthwhile to create a
droplet that grabs the AETE resource from an application and uses it to
create a .pm "glue" file for perl.

later,

---Dave---

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