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- From: Stephen Cooper <stephen@csd.uu.se>
- Subject: Re: Sending AEs to hypercard
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.071437.17326@corax.udac.uu.se>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:14:37 GMT
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- In article <jpugh-180892213928@90.20.3.212> Jon Pugh, jpugh@apple.com
- writes:
- >The "request" command sends a "misceval" event with a function or
- >expression as the direct parameter. Hypercard will evaluate the
- expression
- >and return the value as a string in the keyAEResult parameter (also
- '----')
- >of the reply event.
-
- The request command can also be used after having received the message
- appleEvent.
- "request appleEvent data" will place the data in the "result" container
- (or was it "it"?)
- There are also variations on this command wich will pull out data in
- places other than '----'.
-
- regards,
- Stephen
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