| Installing AppleEvent Handlers [message #12905] |
Mon, 14 September 1998 00:00 |
hellman
Messages: 4
Registered: September 1998
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I'm annoyed by the lame implementation of the get data and set data event
handling in IDL for Macintosh: namely the inefficient way in which some
data types are returned (arrays), the inability of IDL to deal with other
data types, and the fact that IDL doesn't return object specifiers like
it should. So I want to write my own handlers so that get data and set
data work the way I want them to. I can deal with the AppleEvent manager,
and I can access all the variables I want to through the IDL API.
Here's the question: Is there a way to get IDL to load my shared library
when it launches (i.e. not just the stubs), so I can install my handlers
in the AE dispatch table? The ugly alternative is to run a script like
tell app "IDL
Do Script "ignoredResult = initializeMyAEHandlers(noArgs)"
end tell
where my library exports an initializeMyAEHandlers function which does the
work of loading the appropriate code fragment into memory and calling
AEInstallHandler.
And a second question: Would anyone else be interested in having a less
lame scripting implementation?
- Olof Hellman
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