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Routines for Responding to Apple Events

Suspending and Resuming Apple Event Handling

When your application calls AEProcessAppleEvent and one of your event handlers is invoked, the Apple Event Manager normally assumes that your application has finished handling the event when the event handler returns. At this point, the Apple Event Manager disposes of the event. However, some applications, such as multi-session servers or any applications that implement their own internal event queueing, may need to defer handling of the event.

The AESuspendTheCurrentEvent, AEResumeTheCurrentEvent, AESetTheCurrentEvent, and AEGetTheCurrentEvent functions described in this section allow you to suspend and resume Apple event handling, specify the Apple event to be handled, and identify an Apple event that is currently being handled.

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AESuspendTheCurrentEvent

AEResumeTheCurrentEvent

AESetTheCurrentEvent

AEGetTheCurrentEvent