Re: [MacPerl] Open and open terms in MacPerl

["Kevin R. Boyce" <Kevin.R.Boyce@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

At 1:37 PM +0000 3/23/1999, Peter Westlake wrote:

>life would be much simpler for me if I could just call this app
>from a Perl script. MacPerl doesn't have system(), so I'm trying
>to use AppleScript to call the app, using "launch" and "open file".

Well, Arved Sandstrom seems to have a better solution for calling other
perl scripts, but as for talking to other Mac apps, I skipped the
AppleScript junk and went straight to the Apple Events.  It's not that
hard, especially with Mac::Apps::Launch to start the other apps up.  Took
me a couple hours to peruse the Apple Events documentation and figure it
out, but I've probably already saved that time in not waiting for the
AppleScripts to compile!

-Kevin "C programmer pretending to the glory of perl" Boyce
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