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

From: David (davidmccabe@MAC.COM)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 05:16:03 AEST


Do you think we're a bit over the top with ways to open documents?
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>> 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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