Re: [MacPerl] Apple Events (was: Checking user-id's and paswords)

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

Here we go.  From http://www.macintouch.com/m8tips.html:

"Finder 8.0 handles AppleEvents by suspending them and handling them in
separate threads whereas Finder 7.5.6 handled AppleEvents immediately. The
net result of this change is that AppleEvents sent to the Finder from
within the Finder's process will immediately timeout (as per Inside
Macintosh:Interapplication Communication) and finish completion when the
thread completes. The Finder itself is not effected by this change but some
third-party products (extensions & control panels) which send the Finder
events from within its own process are effected. We are working with the
third-parties to help them rev to work correctly but your readers might
want to know that there are likely to be incompatibilities for awhile to
come. Also, AppleScripts run from a script menu in the Finder's context
must be revised to handle the new behavior. Since there are a considerable
number of such scripts, it seems likely to me that full compliance will be
a bit longer in coming for AppleScript writers than for the extension
writers. Developers should expect incompatible extensions or scripts to
fail with an error of -1712 (errAETimeout). A well written extension or
script will not crash as a result but may return obscure error messages
like 'The Finder cannot be found or is not running.' Again, this difference
will not effect everybody, but will effect those users who use certain
utilities which try to be closely integrated with the Finder or who use a
Scripts menu in the Finder."

I don't know whether or not MacPerl and AppleEvents.pm will be affected ...

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