Re: [MacPerl] Runtime aete Questions

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 15.21 -0500 1999.02.10, Richard Gordon wrote:
>Since the runtime app's name and the script's name are the same,does this mean
>that I use something like:
>
>tell app "myScript"
>do script "myScript"
>end tell
>
>or am I missing something here?

Just do:

tell application "myApp"
  activate
end tell

It will run.


>Also, I noticed that Do Script event includes:
>
>"[preprocess boolean] -- if true, send script through C preprocessor."
>"[mode Local/Batch/Remote/Duplex] -- mode (local, batch, remote, duplex)."
>
>I didn't think that Perl could be preprocessed on a Mac- if it can, how do you
>do this? And what is all this mode stuff about?

I've never attempted preprocessing.  The mode stuff is explained somewhat
in MacPerl.Frontend document.  Basically, local is default and what you
usually want (and you return data via MacPerl::Reply()), and batch
redirects STDOUT to the Apple Event, so AppleScript (in this case) would
get STDOUT back.

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