On 2002-09-02 14:45, "Tim Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 11:34 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
>
>> Hmmm.... I never use it. It's designed for dummies but is about as
>> helpful
>> as one on most occasions. I mean while we are on the subject of things
>> like this can *anyone* tell me what Apple Events are please? I wasn't
>> able
>> to find much info in the Help file. I mean are they useful for
>> anything I
>> might be able to do between 2 OS X machines?
>
> Good question..... I was wondering about that too.
You're not finding anything in the Help files, because Apple Events aren't
of much interest to end users.
For developers, they're a means of establishing inter-program communication.
For example, one program can send an event to another program to have that
program quit.
AppleScript is built upon Apple Events. Consider the following AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
quit
end tell
This sends a signal to the Finder, telling it to quit. That's Apple Events
at work for ya right there!
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