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Chapter 6 - Resolving and Creating Object Specifier Records / Reference to Resolving and Creating Object Specifier Records

Routines for Resolving and Creating Object Specifier Records / Deallocating Memory for Tokens

AEDisposeToken

You can use the AEDisposeToken function to deallocate the memory used by a token.

FUNCTION AEDisposeToken (VAR theToken: AEDesc): OSErr;

theToken

The token to be disposed of.

DESCRIPTION

When your application calls the AEDisposeToken function, the Apple Event Manager first calls your application's token disposal function, if you have provided one. If you haven't provided a token disposal function, or if your application's token disposal function returns errAEEventNotHandled as the function result, the Apple Event Manager calls the system token disposal function if one is available. If there is no system token disposal function or the function returns errAEEventNotHandled as the function result, the Apple Event Manager calls the AEDisposeDesc function to dispose of the token.

RESULT CODES

In addition to the following result codes, AEDisposeToken also returns result codes returned by the token disposal function that disposed of the token.

noErr	0	No error occurred
paramErr	-50	AEObjectInit was not called before this function was called
notASpecialFunction	-1714	The keyword is not valid for a special function

SEE ALSO

For information about writing a token disposal function, see page 6-111.