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Re: Sending AppleEvents

Subject: Re: Sending AppleEvents
From: Rolf Howarth <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:33:31 +0100
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At 12:03 -0800 27/1/07, Greg Guerin <email@hidden> wrote:

(I've already tried using osascript and Runtime.exec(), by the way,
but because of the particular events I need to send osascript won't
work for me.)


Can you describe the particular events you need, and why osascript won't work?

When something seems too difficult for JNI, my first thought is often to
exec() a Process and run it as a kind of daemon intermediary...

The application doesn't have an AppleScript dictionary. I could send raw AppleEvents but apparently AppleScript only retrieves results of type '----' which won't cut it in this case - the result is an XML string of type 'xmlD', so I need to use C/C++.

I know there's been talk about it in the past so I just wondered if there were any suitable AppleEvent/JNI examples around. The example code I've got is part of a Cocoa GUI application, so I'm not sure if I can just strip out the AppleEvent stuff and put a JNI wrapper on it, or if it depends on the Cocoa application framework (for event loops or what not). I guess I just need to dive in and try it and see what happens.

-Rolf
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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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