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- From: jwbaxter@halcyon.halcyon.com
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: Apple Events
- Message-ID: <199212181629.AA26338@halcyon.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:32:56 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- >We're having some difficulty implementing Apple Event support in MCL 2.0p1.
-
- Tod,
- There is some confusion as to what events are expected when an
- application starts up. If the application is started because the
- application icon was double-clicked in Finder, an Open Application event is
- received. If the app is started because one of its documents is double
- clicked, NO Open Application is received...an Open Document is received
- instead. (Or a Print Document if a document is selected in Finder and the
- Print command is chosen.).
- So...when an application starts up and observes that Apple events are
- implemented, it should do whatever it does to initialize REGARDLESS of why
- it is starting, then await one of the events. On Open App do the "I was
- double-clicked" stuff (untitled document, or whatever)...on Open Doc do
- that stuff.
- None of the events will be received if the right bit isn't set in the
- SIZE resource (but if that were the problem you wouldn't get the Quit
- Application event either, and that shouldn't be the MCL problem you're
- seeing).
-
- On the CD ROM, look in folder Dev.CD Nov/Dec 92:Tools &
- Apps:OS/Toolbox:Apple Events:AETracker 3.0: for a nice little Control Panel
- which patches the trap which all Apple event traps go through, and will
- report some or lots of information about some or all of the calls (easy to
- select what). It should answer many of your questions about what events
- are being passed around. $5 shareware from one of the Apple DTS guys.
-
- Also on the CD ROM, in Dev.CD Nov/Dec 92:Tools & Apps:OS/Toolbox:Apple
- Events:AE & Scripting Dev Kit:AE Tools:FKEYs: there is a nice FKey which
- displays a list of the currently installed Apple event handlers. Useful
- sometimes if you "know" you're set up to receive an event which isn't
- coming in. Also useful to make sure that any System handlers are being
- removed when an application shuts down (I've found two guilty apps so far).
-
- None of what I've said above is directly related to MCL. I see that MCL
- installs one wildcard handler which receives all incoming events (that's
- the little FKey at work). I haven't looked at what that handler does.
- ------------
- After running the AETracker against MCL 2.0p1, I have a concern:
- ------------
- AETracker record
- Brought to you by C.K. Haun <TR> and RavenWare Software
- Tracking initiated in application:Finder
-
- MCL 2.0p1 at TickCount: $0000298D
- AEInstallEventHandler
- Class: aevt ID: **** RefCon $010DE76C System Type
-
- MCL 2.0p1 at TickCount: $00002990
- AEProcessAppleEvent
- Class: aevt ID: oapp
-
- MCL 2.0p1 at TickCount: $00002990
- AEGetAttributePtr
- Wanting: Descriptor Type:**** Key Type : evid
-
- MCL 2.0p1 at TickCount: $00002991
- AEGetAttributePtr
- Wanting: Descriptor Type:**** Key Type : miss
- Routine returned an error : $F95B errAEDescNotFound
-
- MCL 2.0p1 at TickCount: $00002991
- AERemoveEventHandler
- Class: aevt ID: ****
-
- MCL 2.0p1 at TickCount: $00002ACF
- AEInstallEventHandler
- Class: **** ID: **** RefCon $00000000 System Type
- -------------------
- This is the result of double clicking MCL itself. Note that MCL seems to
- be installing a bogus handler (which seems to work) to catch event class
- <<nothing>> (probably 0x00000000), ID **** (typeWildCard). (Or, there
- could be a problem in AETracker, but I've never before seen it mis-report
- an event Class.) The Open Application arrives and is processed, the bogus
- handler is removed and a new, valid handler for **** **** is installed.
-
- I haven't looked at the underlying code, but I suspect the root of your
- problem is in this use of a different handler at startup.
- --John
-
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- John W. Baxter jwbaxter@halcyon.com [BAXTER.JOHN on AppleLink, from
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