Receiving Apple Events

If you want your application to respond to Apple events sent by other

applications, you should read the following sections:

Components of Apple Events describes the various components of an

Apple event that uniquely identify it.

Responding to Apple Events covers in detail the steps to be taken to

respond to any Apple Event.

Accepting an Apple Event describes the way to set up your application to

receive Apple Events.

Writing Apple Event Handlers describes the process of writing Apple

event Handlers.

Installing Apple Event Handlers describe the way to install your Apple

Event handling routines.

Open Application Event gives a code example of an Apple event handler.

Getting Data Out of an Apple Event describes the proper way to extract

data from an Apple Event.

Other sections that might be of interest are the following:

Descriptor Records covers the fundamental structures from which Apple

events are constructed.

Descriptor Lists covers the descriptor list, a structure from which Apple

events are constructed.

Getting Data Out of a Parameter covers the methods for extracting data

from a parameter of an Apple event that your application has received.

Getting Data Out of an Attribute covers the methods for extracting data

from an attribute of an Apple event that your application has received.

data from a descriptor list of an Apple event that your application has

received.

Built-in Coercion Handlers describes the type coercions that the

Apple Event Manager can perform when extracting data from an Apple

event.

own routines to perform coercions not supported by the

Interacting With the User covers the correct way to interact with the

user as the result of receiving an Apple event.

Replying to an Apple Event describes the way to set up the optional reply

Apple event that is passed to your Apple event handler.

responsible for disposing of Apple event data structures.

Getting Files Selected From the Finder is a code example showing how

to handle the Apple Events sent by the finder when a user double-clicks on a

document in order to launch your application.

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