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Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication /: Chapter 3 - Introduction to Apple Events / About the Apple Event Manager

Supporting Apple Events as a Client Application
Because users can send Apple events to a variety of applications simply by executing a script, many applications have no need to send Apple events. However, if you want to factor your application for recording, or if you want your application to send Apple events directly to other applications, you can use Apple Event Manager routines to create and send Apple events.
To send an Apple event, you must

create the Apple event
add parameters and attributes
use the AESend function to send the event

The chapter "Creating and Sending Apple Events" in this book describes how to perform these tasks.

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