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- From: kurisuto@chopin.udel.edu (Sean J. Crist)
- Subject: Apple event questions
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:01:02 GMT
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- I'm updating an application to support the required Apple events, but I
- still want to support the old CountAppFiles/GetAppFiles scheme for users
- who aren't running under System 7. If I have my High Level Event bit set
- in my SIZE resource, I know that I will receive odoc Apple Events, etc.
- What I'm not sure of is whether the Toolbox also sends the information the
- old way as well. Do I have to use Gestalt to see whether I will get Apple
- events to open my startup documents (and specifically not call
- CountAppFiles to avoid getting the same information twice), or can I just
- go ahead and do both, knowing that CountAppFiles will return 0 files if
- there are odoc Apple events pending?
-
- Second question: is the Apple Event Registry available through any ftp
- sites, or do I have to order a hard copy from APDA?
-
- Trivia question: what is the history of reserved bit 9 of the 'what'
- field of an event record? Something I read suggested that this bit once
- had some meaning (perhaps in early development versions before the Mac was
- ever released), but that it no longer does. Is this some vestige of an
- interesting piece of Mac history? (I have to wonder why Apple didn't use
- this unused bit for Multifinder events, instead of appropriating App4Evt,
- which some applications might have been using.)
-
- Thank you!
-
- --Kurisuto
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