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Responding to Apple Events

Your application must be able to respond to certain Apple events sent by the Mac OS, such as the open application and quit events. If your application has defined additional Apple events that it supports, either to supply services to other applications or to make itself scriptable, it must be ready to respond to those events as well.

This chapter describes how you write handlers to respond to the Apple events your application receives. It also provides an overview of how Carbon applications work with Apple events sent by the Mac OS.

Contents:

About Apple Event Handlers
Writing an Apple Event Handler
Handling Apple Events Sent by the Mac OS

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