Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and inter-application communication

["Alex K Suska" <aksuska@insideflyer.com>]

Sue,

I think posts like yours are invaluable to this list.  More of the Mac community
should know what power they could have with MacPerl that apply to their everyday
work.  To the topic, you need to make sure that the script is launched with the
correct "mode".  These modes are described (albeit somewhat cryptically) in the
primary ReadMe (whose name escapes me at the moment).  Keep in mind that
AppleScript is synchronous, so if you, say, have FileMaker talk to MacPerl via
AppleScript, any AppleScripts that the MacPerl script invokes will have to
execute after the first has completed or the second will never execute and both
will time out.  I have had this experience many times.  If you can't make heads
or tails of the "modes" of MacPerl (I sure didn't), I can re-post (with due
credit, of course ;-) a message that I had saved that explains them very well.

Alex

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