New event

All the menu items in the hierarchical menu can be used to create new “events”. Each different item corresponds to the application the event is linked to.

“Events” are used for exchanging data between applications, and for initiating actions such as recalculating a spreadsheet, evaluating a macro, executing a script etc. DynRisk can communicate with applications running on the local computer or on other Macintoshes in a network by sending events. By including events in a DynRisk model, you can extend the modeling capabilities dramatically. 

Supported applications:
 • “DynRisk™” sends events to DynRisk objects.
 • “DynLP™” sends events to the DynLP optimizer models.
 • “MS Excel 4™” sends events to Microsoft Excel 4 spreadsheets.
 • “MS Excel 5™” sends events to Microsoft Excel 5 spreadsheets.
 • “MS Project™” sends events to Microsoft Project models.
 • “HyperCard™” sends events to HyperCard stacks.
 • “AppleScript™” sends events to AppleScript applets.

Note that by linking to AppleScript applets, you can actually link to any other scriptable application.

Thus, if you need to link to some application not mentioned above, find out if it is scriptable. If so, it is usually relatively easy to write a small AppleScript applet which can be used to pass data between DynRisk and the other application.