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Received: from homer18.u.washington.edu (homer18.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA05496 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:49:41 -0700 Received: by homer18.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA58871; Fri, 21 Apr 95 11:49:36 -0700 X-Sender: tg3@homer18.u.washington.edu Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:49:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Thurman Gillespy <tg3@u.washington.edu> To: Clifford Thomas Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> Cc: Executor Discussion Group <executor@nacm.com> Subject: Re: Executor Features In-Reply-To: <m0s2GMI-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Message-Id: <Pine.A32.3.91i.950421113619.89775A-100000@homer18.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Apr 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote: > Hi Thurman, > > Mat already responded to much of your post, but I have a few specifics > to add. > > >>>>> "Thurman" == Thurman Gillespy <tg3@u.washington.edu> writes: > > Thurman> Unfortunately, I require some System > Thurman> 7 features, actually just the 4 required apple events, > Thurman> and the calls to CustomGetFile, CustomPutFile > > Hmmm, as I understand it, the 4 required Apple Events are open your > application, open a document, print a document and quit, right? Won't > your app also have menu items to do that? Of course, there isn't a menu command to launch the application, but otherwise, yes. I actually send Apple Events to myself, per current Apple recommendation, which means I could be scriptable in the future. > Right now *any* use of Apple Events will cause Executor to crash and > burn, but fairly soon, we'll "spoof" Apple Events to the extent that > you'll be able to make the calls, but you just won't see any events. > It seems to me that such spoofing will be sufficient for your (and > many other programs') needs, no? I'm not sure what you mean by "spoof". The cannonical method is to use Gestalt to check if Apple Events are present. So I assume you will have Gestalt answer nope, no AE in THIS machine. As of right now, if I don't receive any Apple Events, my app won't open any docs or be able to quit. But this is easy to program around. But I NEED TO KNOW that AE are not there. > I will also be adding real support (not spoofing) for a bunch of > System 7 filesystem calls, and that should include CustomGetFile and > CustomPutFile (and the other System 7 Standard File Package routines). These are a delight to the developer, so supporting them is a good idea. -thurman