Re: [MacPerl] Scripting Stuffit Installer Maker

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.42 -0800 2000.03.15, Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:
>   Has anyone scripted Stuffit Installer Maker?   I am particularly interested
>in the Apple Event creation stuff.

The best options for doing it are (in no particular order):

* Mac::Glue (on my site).  It lets you use AppleScript vocabulary in 
Perl to control apps using Apple events.

* Mac::AppleEvents, or its simpler cousin, Mac::AppleEvents::Simple 
(also on my site).  See the file macperlcat (Chris' AppleEvent 
Tutorial, comes with MacPerl) for a tutorial on using it.  It is much 
more complex than using Mac::Glue, but scripts using them compile 
more quickly and take less RAM.

* MacPerl::DoAppleScript(), which executes the text of the 
AppleScript passed to it.

(If you use option 1 or Mac::AppleEvents::Simple, try installing 
cpan-mac, which makes module installation simple ... also on my site.)

    http://pudge.net/macperl/

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