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Re: Large queue of messages for another app
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Re: Large queue of messages for another app


  • Subject: Re: Large queue of messages for another app
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:14:57 -0800

On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:

> Once the files are processed by the sub app, I need to send a properties
> NSDictionary back to the main app. This can't really be handled by an 'odoc'
> event -

Any AppleEvent can send a reply containing structured data. Although you're right that LaunchServices isn't set up to relay the reply back to you, so you probably need to use the AE API to do the sending.

> Are AppleEvents as likely to get lost as NSDistributedNotifications?

No, they're lossless. (While distributed notifications can fall on the floor if the target process's Mach message queue overflows.)

—Jens_______________________________________________

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