Re: [MACTCL] Tcl OSA Component

[Philip A. <ph...@vc...>]

On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 16:22 America/Vancouver, Jonathan Guyer 
wrote:

>> Essentially, it's anything I can stuff into an AEDesc (which is quite 
>> a lot).

> Philip, I don't know much about OSA and its overlap with conventional 
> AppleEvents. Do you have recent source to TclAE? Do you need it?

Very kind Jon,

I was hoping to include TclAE, some form of tclAppleScript, the 
'resource' command, and a bunch of other choice packages into TclOSA at 
some point. I had picked up TclAE2.0 expecting that I'd be able to keep 
it somewhere in the Tcl.component/Contents/Resources folder and load it 
as a package. Is that not possible?

OSA components can do quite a bit with AppleEvents and can also 
implement custom component procedure handling (with agreed upon 
selector IDs). Currently, TclOSA opens a private connection to the 
AppleScript component, so you'll have a complete range of facilities 
available in that regard once they move beyond stub status. I believe I 
could also supply a pointer to the main Tcl_Interp, a hook for 
initializing it, and the host application FSRef in an AppleEvent if you 
need it.


Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca