Re: How to send an odoc event to an app?

From: Walter Ian Kaye (osas@NATURAL-INNOVATIONS.COM)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 04:42:29 AEST


Steve Roy wrote:
>For those of you who are familliar with the underlying machinery of
>AppleEvents, there are two ways to launch an application, with an "open
>document" event or an "open application" event.
>
>Doing the following is the equivalent of sending an "open application"
>event, followed by an "open document" event.
>
>    tell application "Foo" to open document "Bar"
>
>To simply have an "open document" event sent, one can do the following.
>
>    tell application "Finder" to open alias "Bar"
>
>Now in my particular script, I need to use the second form, without using
>the Finder. Is this possible?

There's also this:

  tell application "Finder" to open alias "Bar" using application "Foo"

or variant

  tell application "Finder" to open alias "Bar" using application file id "Fooo"

>Can we send an "open document" event directly
>to the app without using the tell application "Foo" terminology?

The above is the only way I know to tell the app without telling the app. :-)


-W

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