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Chapter 8 - Apple Event Terminology Resources

This chapter describes the resource structure used by both the 'aeut' and 'aete' resources and explains how to create an 'aete' resource for your application. It also explains how applications that support additional plug-in modules, each with its own 'aete' resource, can write a handler for the Get AETE event that collects the 'aete' resources from the modules that are currently running.

Before you read this chapter, you should read the chapter "Introduction to Scripting" in this book and the chapters about the Apple Event Manager that are relevant to your application.

The first section in this chapter describes how the AppleScript component interprets AppleScript statements that trigger Apple events. The first section also explains how to define both Apple events and the corresponding user terminology for your application in a way that translates easily into AppleScript statements. If you implement Apple events so that they translate into logical and useful AppleScript scripts, your implementation will probably work well with other scripting components that resemble AppleScript.

The next two sections describe how to

• create an 'aete' resource
• handle the Get AETE event

For details about the structure of the data in an 'aeut' resource and an 'scsz' resource, see "Reference to Apple Event Terminology Resources," which begins on page 8-31.

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Chapter Contents

Defining Terminology for Use by the AppleScript Component

Structure of Apple Event Terminology Resources

Creating an Apple Event Terminology Extension Resource

Supporting Standard Suites Without Extensions

Extending the Standard Suites

Supporting Subsets of Suites

Supporting New Suites

Handling the Get AETE Event

Reference to Apple Event Terminology Resources

Header Data for an Apple Event Terminology Resource

Suite Data for an Apple Event Terminology Resource

Event Data

Object Class Data

Comparison Operator Data

Enumeration and Enumerator Data

The Scripting Size Resource