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Chapter 10 - Scripting Components

Using Scripting Component Routines

The following sections describe how to use some of the standard scripting component routines to manipulate and execute scripts from within your application. For an overview of these routines, see "Manipulating and Executing Scripts," which begins on page 7-18.

The first section describes how to compile and execute source data for a script. The remaining sections describe how you can use scripting component routines to

• get a handle to a compiled script and save the data as a resource
• load and execute a previously saved and compiled script
• load, modify, recompile, and save a compiled script
• redirect Apple events to handlers in script contexts
• supply a resume dispatch function
• supply an alternative active function
• supply alternative send and create functions
• record Apple events in compiled scripts and display equivalent source data to the user

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Subtopics

Compiling and Executing Source Data

Saving Script Data

Loading and Executing Script Data

Modifying and Recompiling a Compiled Script

Using a Script Context to Handle an Apple Event

Supplying a Resume Dispatch Function

Supplying an Alternative Active Function

Supplying Alternative Create and Send Functions

Recording Scripts