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From: cory@three.MV.COM (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: AppleEvents Confusion...
Message-ID: <395@three.MV.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 90 02:22:37 GMT
Organization: Three Letter Co. Nashua, NH.
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I have read the docs in IM VI and the New Apple Events Chapter,
and I am still a bit confused about how to set up an application
with AppleEvents.  Especially after reading the article about 
User Agents (really a bad name for what they are... consider, 
the normal use of an agent: they take 10% off of the top, and 
do not really do much of anything.)

Anyway, say I am building an application.  To reasonably enable 
voice control and "Agents", I need to have all of the controlable
units accessable via Appleevents.  How does this hypothetical 
Agent know which events do what?  How do I know what events to
assign to which actions?  What if my application needs more data
to do something than another similar application? or different
data?  

For that matter, what is the advantage of using the event dispatch
system call?  Is it planned to do something other than just be an
additional step between application modules?  Should I use it for 
internal communication?  *CAN* I use it for internal communication
without a significant overhead?

+C
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