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[MacPerl] Sending AppleEvents to Frontier

Hello,
I'm not very familiar with AppleEvents and I was wondering if there is a _simple_ way to send directly an AppleEvents to Frontier and get back the result in MacPerl.

I know about the Chris tutorial on the subject, but I'm very new to Perl, MacPerl and AppleEvents, so Its a lot to master before I can really use AppleEvents from MacPerl. Here is the script that I use, but its very slow because MacPerl have to compile the AppleScript.

#!Perl

$script = <<EOS;
		tell application "UserLand Frontier"
				Do Script "clock.now()"
		end tell
EOS

$frontierResult=MacPerl::DoAppleScript($script);
print($frontierResult);

BTW, I didn't find a way to send a string inside the Frontier verb as <Do Script "dialog.notify(\"Hello from Frontier\")">. I tried to escape it with backlash with no avail.

Thanks

Cheers

-Emmanuel
 

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