This folder contains Apple Events tools, sample code and documentation to help you implement Apple events in your application. Apple events is the messaging language that applications use for communication with other applications; it will let programs share not only data but commands.
To get started you should read the "Apple Event Manager" chapter in Inside Mac Vol. VI. This chapter introduces Apple events and documents all Apple Event Manager routines. The “Event Manager”, “Edition Manager”, and “PPC Toolbox” chapters describe specific Apple events and transport mechanisms.
Next, you should read the Apple Event Object Support Library Developer Note. This note describes Apple event objects and documents how to support them.
We've documented all registered Apple events, data types and object classes in the Apple Event Registry. You should use this document as a reference when implementing events. We've defined the Required, Core, Text, Graphics, and Table events. We believe that these events provide the "working capital" for the first generation of Apple event-aware applications. They can be used to deliver most general interapplication communication. The Core events represent "building block" events that provide most menu-type, editing, and data manipulation functions. Apple has formed the Apple Event Developers Association (ALink: AEDA) to continue to foster cooperation in the development of event standards.
Apple encourages developers to implement the standards that have been defined, and to submit any events they may have defined in their own applications for publication in the Registry and consideration as general standards. To submit your own events or proposals for event suites, please link REGISTRY.
You should also read the Apple events User Terminology Developer Note. This documents the mechanism that allows applications to announce the Apple events they can recieve from scripting applications.
Have fun and as always send us your comments via AppleLink: AEDA.
The contents of this folder as of July 1, 1991, is the same as what was given out at the 1991 Worldwide Developer Conference this year, except for the Object Support Library, which is now final.
The documents, Apple Events Registry Errata, Apple Events User Terminology Developer Note, Apple Event Object Support Library Developer Note are in Apple Link LinkSaver format. These documents must be opened from within AppleLink.
