Re: [MacPerl] I'm in MacWeek

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.15 97/6/14, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>And I was suprised yesterday to see Chris say
>something along the lines that "MacPerl's Apple event support is poor".  I
>thought it could now send arbitrary Apple Events?  (The problem being to
>figure out what events an application supports, and providing an interface).

No, no.  MacPerl's Apple Event support is wonderful.  I said exactly that
the INTERFACE to the Apple Events is weak.  The user/programmer interface.
MacPerl itself, under the hood, seems to interface fine.  But it is very
difficult for a programmer to get at the proper AppleEvents.  Prohibitvely
difficult for most scripters, IMO.  "Anyone" can sit down with an AS
dictionary and a script and pound out some AS code.  Would that it were
that easy with Perl and AEs ... and maybe it will be someday.

I am in no way criticizing any of the work done thus far by Matthias on
AEs.  But for the average scripter to use it, the next step has to be
taken.  I am not yet sure what that is or how to do it.

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