Creating and Sending Apple Events

If you want your application to create and send Apple Events to other

applications, you should read the following sections:

Components of Apple Events describes the various components of an

Apple event that uniquely identify it.

to be taken to create and send an Apple Event.

Creating an Apple Event describes the use process of creating an Apple

event.

Specifying a Target Address describes how to specify a target address

when creating an Apple event.

Adding Parameters to an Apple Event cover the process of adding data to

an Apple event once you have created it.

Sending an Apple Event describes in detail the parameters passed to the

AESend routine and contains a code example that goes through all the steps of

creating and sending an Apple event.

Other sections that might be of interest are the following:

responsible for disposing of Apple event data structures.

Dealing With Timeouts describes what to do if you choose to have your

application wait for a reply when you send an Apple event

Writing an Idle Function describes how to write a function which

processes events while your application waits for a reply Apple event. This is

only necessary if you choose to have your application wait for the reply Apple

event.

Writing a Reply Filter Function describes how to write a function

which processes high-level events while your application waits for a reply

Apple event. This is only necessary if you choose to have your application wait

for the reply Apple event.

Launch Application with Doc Using Apple Events is a code example

which shows how to send an Apple Event to the Finder to instruct it to launch a

particular application with a particular document.

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