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- 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>
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- 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
-
-