Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl + AppleEvents

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 7:22 -0400 9/3/98, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 06.46 -0400 1998.09.03, Alan Fry wrote:
>>However 'syso' does not exist in Finder's 'aete' as an event class, (or at
>>least I can't find it there) and neither do 'beep' nor 'GMT ' figure there
>>as events. I connot see the logic of putting 'MACS' as the address of an
>>event which is not to be found at that address. But for all that, it works.
>>(An AppleScript BTW would not 'tell the Finder' anything: it wouldn't even
>>mention the Finder.)
>
>MACS is also the address for scripting additions (OSAXen).  Beep happens to
>be an OSAX.  Drag and drop yoru various OSAX on aeteconvert and have at it.
>

Any application (which will respond properly to an unknown event:  that is
silently return the errAEEventNotHandled error <spelling may be off> )can
be the target of an event which will trigger a Scripting Addition.  Finder
is handy, but not necessary.

tell application "Microsoft Excel" to beep 2

should do the same job as

tell application "Finder" to beep 2

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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and you get rid of him for the weekend.

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