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Chapter 10 - Scripting Components / Scripting Components Reference

Optional Scripting Component Routines

This section describes eight groups of optional routines that scripting components can support. Your application can use the Component Manager to find a scripting component that supports a specific group of routines or to determine whether a particular scripting component supports a specific group of routines.

To specify one or more groups of routines for the Component Manager, use the following constants to set the equivalent bits in the componentFlags field of a component description record:

CONST
   kOSASupportsCompiling      = $0002;
   kOSASupportsGetSource      = $0004;
   kOSASupportsAECoercion     = $0008;
   kOSASupportsAESending      = $0010;
   kOSASupportsRecording      = $0020;
   kOSASupportsConvenience    = $0040;
   kOSASupportsDialects       = $0080;
   kOSASupportsEventHandling  = $0100;

Each of these flags identifies one of the groups of routines that are described in the sections that follow. For information about using these constants to locate scripting components that support specific groups of optional routines, see "Connecting to a Scripting Component," which begins on page 10-3.

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Subtopics

Compiling Scripts

Getting Source Data

Coercing Script Values

Manipulating the Create and Send Functions

Recording Scripts

Executing Scripts in One Step

Manipulating Dialects

Using Script Contexts to Handle Apple Events