Re: [MacPerl] Glue

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.13 -0500 1999.03.15, Mat Marcus wrote:
>1) I'm working with apps that use a plugin architecture. In these apps some
>aete information is found in the plugins. If I drag the main app onto the
>glue droplet it extracts a file full of garbage. But if I use an individual
>plugin with an aete it seems to work ok. This happens to me with CodeWarrior
>for example.

With the latest release of Mac::Glue (from November, I think), the target
app is launched if there an aedt resource is detected.  Then an Apple Event
is sent to get the resource data, which should include any plugins.  So
this should not be a problem.


>global namespace. That is, it gets pretty unhappy if there is not a one to
>one mapping between tags and associated strings. Thoughts?

Well, not quite right, from what I understand.  That is, you can have
multiple strings for each four-char ID.  But yes, I believe a four-char ID
has to map back to exactly one "string" for each given application.

So you can type, in Script Editor:

  tell app "Finder" to get selection

And "app" will be expanded to "application".  But that is not too useful
for our discussion.  :)

I am in the middle of redoing Mac::Glue in many ways, and this is one of
them.  Right now I am reading a lot of documentation, including most of IM:
IAC.  I will be discussing more of the details of it on
macperl-modules@macperl.org as they come up rather than this list, and just
make announcements on this list, so please join that list if you're not
already on it.

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