Re: [MacPerl] convert Capture AE to MacPerl Apple Event

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 00.03 1998.04.23, Eric Dobbs wrote:
>Actually I have a copy of aeteconverter but I had a real hard
>time trying to figure out how to structure an event to do the
>equivalent of AppleScript's
>
>  every record ... whose (some criteria)
>
>The "whose" syntax wasn't something I could figure out from the
>output of aeteconverter.  But Capture AE laid it all out for me.
>Hence the time I spent building the tool I posted earlier.  I
>don't think it's a limitation of aeteconverter -- just don't
>think everything I needed is in the aete resource.

Yes, good point.  I use aete.converter to determine what an app is capable
of and the vocabulary, and if I have trouble getting the syntax right or
figuring out what objects and what parameters fit wherem then I use Capture
AE to take out the guesswork.

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