Re: Trapping aete's
Re: Trapping aete's
- Subject: Re: Trapping aete's
- From: "Neal A. Crocker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:48:13 -0500
Two utilities one can use to watch Apple Events as they fly back and
forth between programs are "AETracker" and "Capture AE". Do a search
for either of these names on Google. They were on the web as of a
couple of months ago.
Neal.
Subject: Trapping aete's
To: AppleScript <email@hidden>
From: Greg Strange <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:47:58 -0500
User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022
Howdy all!
I don't know if I am going to make sense. It's late and I have been at it
for several hours now. I know that sometimes I see script that has the
double angled brackets around some cryptic info and I know that that means
it's a command that is used in some scripting addition I don't have (or
isn't loaded). And I believe that I realise that they are what everyone
refers to as aete resources. If some command of a program isn't scriptable,
is there some way to mimic it using aete resources? could I just use some
third party program to see what the double angled crypto-stuff would be for
that program and then just pass that raw aete in my script? Is there
something that can watch all those aete resources flying by?
By way of example, if I wanted to use Outlook Express to send an email and
let's say that command weren't available, could I fire up an "aete watcher",
send an email and see what the <<>>-type aete would be? And then can I just
paste that into my script and it work?
Your discussion on this point is eagerly awaited.
Greg Strange