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Routines for Responding to Apple Events

Creating and Managing the Apple Event Dispatch Tables

An Apple event dispatch table contains entries that specify the event class and event ID that refer to one or more Apple events, the address of the handler routine that handles those Apple events, and a reference constant. You can use the AEInstallEventHandler function to add entries to the Apple event dispatch table. This function sets up the initial mapping between the handlers in your application and the Apple events that they handle.

To get the address of a handler currently in the Apple event dispatch table, use the AEGetEventHandler function. If you need to remove any of your Apple event handlers after the mapping between handlers and Apple events is established, you can use the AERemoveEventHandler function.

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AEInstallEventHandler

AEGetEventHandler

AERemoveEventHandler