On 23/08/2013, at 9:36 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nope. (And not to pull rank, but I was on the AppleEvents/AppleScript team at 
> the time we figured this stuff out [1991] and added the seemingly-useless 
> ‘oapp’ event in response to developer complaints.)

<snip>

> Actually I forgot the more significant case — apps that open an untitled 
> document when launched (which used to be the official thing to do per the HI 
> Guidelines.) Without the ‘oapp’ event, they’d open first an untitled doc and 
> then the document that had been double-clicked.

Jens,

Are you sure you're not misremembering? That sounds more like the 'noop' event, 
aka "launch" command.

If so, I'd point out that it's broken (as in behaves like 'oapp', aka "run") in 
the current OS, and has been for some time.

-- 
Shane Stanley <[email protected]>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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