Re: [MacPerl] Perl core modules

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.v04003a26b1ab16385173@[24.48.29.148]>, Chris Nandor
<pudge@pobox.com> wrote:

Just a small addition/correction or two:

>>waiting for Chris to tell me I'm wrong about AppleEvents ... ;-)
>
>Apple Events are just one type of IPC (IAC) on the Mac.  :)  There is
>also Program-to-Program Communications (PPC)

The PPC toolbox is often used to send AppleEvents between two apps without
going through the AE manager (although I believe you can send data in
non-AE format as well)--it's more of a pathway than a protocol.

>You might
>consider high-level events like mouse clicks and key clicks as IAC, too.

Mouse clicks and key presses are definitely _not_ high-level events (if
you are using Apple's terminology)--they are low-level events. And except
for update and null events, low-level events are only directed to the
foreground app (not to any background apps), so they really aren't IAC by
any reasonable definition. They are the main form of user-to-application
communication, but apps don't click the mouse or press keys, so they
really don't mediate app-to-app comm.

So Vicki was right. :)
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