Re: [MACTCL] tcl without the tcl?

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 17:19 -0800 on 5/3/02, Jim Ingham wrote:

>Yeah, this is something the Finder does.  But I don't think that 
>this is what assigns the PSN, it is just passing it to the process. 
>So what you would really need to do is get Tcl to register with the 
>WindowServer.  Somebody sent some code to do this - I think to the 
>list - but I can't find it now...

found some excellent commented sample code by Steve Zeller explaining 
how to do AE from cli tools 
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100012/2002/01/17.html

	One important note is that AEDaemonClient includes a workaround for a
	bug in the 10.0 and 10.1 AppleEvent managers, whereby a command line
	tool must supply its own reply port if it is expecting a reply from an
	AEMessageSend call.

he only links with ApplicationServices.frameworks and uses AESendMessage:

	// Now send the event - we use AESendMessage (in 
<AE/AEMach.h>) because we don't have
	// access to AESend() which is in <AE/AEInteraction.h> and 
exported from Carbon.framework.
	// That was done because AESend involves high level event 
handling and filter procs.

we should probably do the same in tclAE, to avoid having to link with 
Cabon.framework.

he also uses typeKernelProcessID to address the AE to a process 
identified by unix pid

Cheers,

Daniel
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