Re: [MACTCL] Making a Tk app scriptable via AppleScript

[Philip A. <phi...@sh...>]

On 2009-08-08, at 13:53:59, Philip Aker wrote:

> On 2009-08-08, at 12:07:55, Kevin Walzer wrote:

>> There are also various Apple event handlers defined in  
>> tkMacOSXHLEvents.c, such as ::tk::mac::OpenDocument  
>> and ::tk::mac::PrintDocument. If these procedures are defined, does  
>> this mean that a Tk application would respond to standard  
>> AppleScript commands as "launch," "open document," "print  
>> document," etc?

> I believe so.

Well, due to an off-list post, I see that much has changed since the  
last time I looked at the code in tkMacOSXHLEvents.c and was using a  
10.3/PPC system. It needs to be upgraded to be usable. I have made the  
required changes in that file but need to test. As I've mentioned  
previously, I mostly work with Tcl directly and do my own UI. If you  
would be able to send me a do-little Tk app which links against the  
Tcl.framework and Tk.framework located in /Library/Frameworks and has  
stub procs for the AppleEvents, I should be able to test and debug the  
changes and then send the altered file to whoever can make use of it.  
The changes should be compatible back to at least 10.3 and forward  
looking to some extent. I will also create the sdef and 'aete' resource.

I'm working with the 8.5.7 projects (10.5 SDK).

Philip Aker
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