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Chapter 4 - Responding to Apple Events / Reference to Responding to Apple Events


Routines for Responding to Apple Events

This section describes the Apple Event Manager routines you can use to create and manage the Apple event dispatch tables, dispatch Apple events, extract information from Apple events, request user interaction, request more time to respond to Apple events, suspend and resume Apple event handling, delete descriptor records, deallocate memory for descriptor records, create and manage the coercion handler and special handler dispatch tables, and get information about the Apple Event Manager.

Because the Apple Event Manager uses the services of the Event Manager, which in turn uses the services of the PPC Toolbox, the routines described in this section may return Event Manager and PPC Toolbox result codes in addition to the Apple Event Manager result codes listed.


Subtopics
Creating and Managing the Apple Event Dispatch Tables
Dispatching Apple Events
Getting Data or Descriptor Records Out of Apple Event Parameters and Attributes
Counting the Items in Descriptor Lists
Getting Items From Descriptor Lists
Getting Data and Keyword-Specified Descriptor Records Out of AE Records
Requesting User Interaction
Requesting More Time to Respond to Apple Events
Suspending and Resuming Apple Event Handling
Getting the Sizes and Descriptor Types of Descriptor Records
Deleting Descriptor Records
Deallocating Memory for Descriptor Records
Coercing Descriptor Types
Creating and Managing the Coercion Handler Dispatch Tables
Creating and Managing the Special Handler Dispatch Tables
Getting Information About the Apple Event Manager

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7 JUL 1996