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Re: Apple Events from Windoze?



Rob Lewis wrote:

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does anybody offer a Windows app
that can send Apple Events to a Mac?

There's nothing available for sending Remote AEs directly, and it's a proprietary protocol so implementing third-party support could be difficult. A much easier option would be to set up a simple client- server system that passes event data over its own secure channel. e.g. It'd be quite trivial to create a platform-independent version of rb-appscript to act as a Windows-based frontend - I could create a portable rb-appscript implementation in a day, though I'd need someone with network programming experience to provide code for pushing serialised Ruby data over the network.



Specifically, I'd love to be able to fire up iTunes on my Mac from my Windows laptop.

If all you're wanting to do is control iTunes remotely, I'd go with what other folks are suggesting: using vnc or ssh to log onto your Mac. If you use ssh, you might check out the command-line iTunes controller at:


    http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=392

(requires appscript 0.16.x). Not tried it myself, but it sounds pretty good.

Another option would be to dig around the interweb for web-based iTunes remotes, of which there are a few, e.g.:

    http://www.deadendsw.com/Products/webRemote.html
    http://www.whatsmyip.org/itunesremote/
    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/01/itunes_remote.html
    http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Apache-iTunes-0.09/

HTH

has
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