[MacPerl] Re: Get AETE

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 00.16 -0400 1998.10.01, David Schooley wrote:
>  If the app is already running, I'll bounce the GetAETE event off of it.
>That also solves the problem of directly reading the resource when the file
>is running, which can be really bad.
>
>  If the app isn't running, but it has a 'scsz' resource, I'll launch it
>and bounce the GetAETE event off of it.
>
>  Otherwise, I'll just read in the resource as I do now.

Sounds perfect.

>A couple of other notes:
>
>Merging the proper suites from the aeut in the AS dialect works. It's
>currently kind of slow since I have to go hunting for the proper file, but
>it'll do for now.
>
>Most people seem to be using aeteconvert to get the information needed for
>sending Apple events instead of recompiling aete resources, so I created an
>additional output format that is more human-readable. The old format is
>still available.

Great.  Now my only question is how to use your module to get _my_ desired
output for Mac::Glue.  Do you do as I did, put the whole thing into a data
structure first, or do you just  print as you get it?

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