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What happens to additionalEventParamDescriptor?
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What happens to additionalEventParamDescriptor?


  • Subject: What happens to additionalEventParamDescriptor?
  • From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:13:34 -0700

I'm sending open AppleEvents to an application from a mixture of Carbon and Cocoa (some PlugIns, some daemones, some applications, ... it's a real menagerie). I need to send additional parameters in the event to tell the application the location in the document to display.

When I send the open event using LSOpenFromRefSpec, the AEDesc *passThruParams parameter gets inserted into the event. I can extract the parameter by fetching the AppleEvent descriptor for keyAEPropData. That's working just fine.

However, when I used the (I thought) equivalent Cocoa call -[NSWorkspace openURLs:withAppBundleIdentifier:options:additionalEventParamDescriptor:launchIdentifiers:], the NSAppleEventDescriptor that I pass for additionalEventParamDescriptor: seems to go into a black hole. The application receiving the event dumps the value of [NSAppleEventManager currentAppleEvent] to the console. When I use LSOpenFromRefSpce, the additional parameter is there. When using the NSWorkspace method, the open event contains no additional information that I can see.

The documentation for additionalEventParamDescriptor:(NSAppleEventDescriptor *)descriptor has the following to say:

    Additional options specified in an AppleEvent-style descriptor. For
    example, you could use this parameter to specify additional documents
    to open when the application is launched.

So where, exactly, do these "additional options" go? Anyone have a clue or how to get them into keyAEPropData?

--
James Bucanek
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