Re: [MacPerl] AE & FMP

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 18.52 1998.03.23, <darrylc@foothills.eznet.com> wrote:
>Chris, Matthias, et al
>
>Thought I was going along fine....until I tried to actually do something, ha!
>
>I tried to create an AE to open a specific doc:
>
>
>$file = "path_to_mydb";
>$evt = AEBuildAppleEvent('aevt', 'odoc',
>                          typeAppleSignature, 'FMP3',
>                          0,0, "'----':$file") || die $^E;
>
>I got the event ID from running aete.converter and from the AE db that
>comes with FMP3.
>
>But I get "died. system error occured. No error text available."
>
>Anyone care to give me a kick?

#!perl -wl
use Mac::AppleEvents;
$file = ':test';
$evt = AEBuildAppleEvent('aevt', 'odoc',
                          typeApplSignature, 'FMPR',
                          0,0, "'----':TEXT(\@)", $file) or die $^E;
print AEPrint($evt);
$rep = AESend($evt, kAEWaitReply) or die $^E;
print AEPrint($rep);
AEDisposeDesc($evt);
AEDisposeDesc($rep);

You had two main problems:  you spelled Appl Apple, and you did not make
$file into TEXT.  You can also do Ò$fileÓ, but that does not work if $file
has a Ò or Ó in it:

$evt = AEBuildAppleEvent('aevt', 'odoc',
                          typeApplSignature, 'FMPR',
                          0,0, "'----':Ò$fileÓ") or die $^E;

BTW, this is with Filemaker Pro 2.1, which is FMPR, I don't know what
Filemaker Pro 3 is.  FMP3 is probably right.

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