Re: [MacPerl] Sending AppleEvents to Frontier

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 06.42 1998.05.05, Peter Hartmann wrote:
>the following script is a purely mechanical adaption of Matthias
>'recipe_as_osa' from his Perl Anarchists Cookbook, borrowing two lines from
>Chris' AETutorial to make MacPerl print the result. I guess you could use

Hey, here is a module based on your script.  For some Frontier scripts,
this will work just fine.  All the user needs to do (once this package is
put in a module) is:

        use Mac::Apps::Frontier;
        print frontier('clock.now()');

#!perl -w

#define package; better to make into module file
package Mac::Apps::Frontier;
use strict;
use Mac::Components;
use Mac::OSA;
use Mac::AppleEvents;
use Exporter;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT);
@ISA        = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT     = qw(frontier);

my($UserTalk) = OpenDefaultComponent(kOSAComponentType(), 'LAND') or die $^E;


sub frontier {
    my($script, $value, $return, $text);
    $script = _compile($_[0]);
    $value = OSAExecute($UserTalk, $script, 0, 0)       or die $^E;
    $return = OSADisplay($UserTalk, $value, 'TEXT', 0)  or die $^E;
    OSADispose($UserTalk, $value);
    OSADispose($UserTalk, $script);
    return (AEPrint($return) =~ /^Ò(.*)Ó$/);
}

sub _compile {
    my($script, $id);
    $script = AECreateDesc('TEXT', $_[0])   or die $^E;
    $id = OSACompile($UserTalk, $script, 0)     or die $^E;
    AEDisposeDesc($script);
    return $id;
}

END{CloseComponent($UserTalk)}

#define script
package main;
use strict;
Mac::Apps::Frontier->import(); # just use Mac::Apps::Frontier if in module file

print frontier('clock.now()');

__END__

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MacPerl: Power and Ease (ISBN 1881957322), http://www.ptf.com/macperl/
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