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Chapter 5 - Creating and Sending Apple Events / Reference to Creating and Sending Apple Events

Routines for Creating and Sending Apple Events

This section describes the Apple Event Manager routines you can use to create Apple events, create and duplicate descriptor records, create and add items to descriptor lists and AE records, add parameters and attributes to Apple events, and send Apple events. The section "Routines for Responding to Apple Events," which begins on page 4-58, describes other Apple Event Manager routines used for both responding to and creating Apple events.

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Subtopics

Creating Apple Events

Creating and Duplicating Descriptor Records

Creating Descriptor Lists and AE Records

Adding Items to Descriptor Lists

Adding Data and Descriptor Records to AE Records

Adding Parameters and Attributes to Apple Events

Sending Apple Events