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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: AppleEvents using the "CSHELL"
Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.hfox5b@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 91 00:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
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On the Developer System 7 disk there is an application shell called
the CShell.  It was written by Eric Soldan of Apple DTS and supports
many System 7 features.

I've been working with this code and have been trying to get it to
open a document when it receives the Open Document AppleEvent.  The
code fails with an error -1700, data could not be coerced to the requested
data type, when it is parsing the open document AppleEvent.

So - is any one using this code?  Is Eric Soldan working on it further?
Any ideas why it might get that error?  Fixes?

As you can no doubt tell, I'm new to this AppleEvent stuff.  It all
seems rather complicated, though powerful.  

-- michael peirce

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