Mac: How to receive AppleEvents with creator IDs

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 16 00:42:25 EDT 2004


Jean-Pierre Bergamin wrote:
> I'm wondering if it's possible to receive AppleEvents with python that are
> addressed only by the creator ID (= application signature) which is a usual
> OSType four character code.

You need to build an applet from your Python code
(a utility for doing this is provided with MacPython).
Then give the applet a unique creator code, and other
applications will be able to address AppleEvents to
it.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg




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