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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.1 & Apple events
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.214804.26717@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 21:48:04 GMT
References: <53590@apple.Apple.COM>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <53590@apple.Apple.COM>, by jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun):
> 
> The Finder Events were removed from the version of the Apple Event Registry
> distributed to developers with 7.0b4...
> 
> I decided to wait for a release of the Finder that supports the Object Model
> and the Core Event Suite before relying on it for remote transactions.
> 
> Kevin Calhoun
> jkc@apple.com

Sounds like a good move.  This ties into another thread (in another news
group) along the same lines.  In fact, last summer I posted a note to Apple-
Link suggesting that the Finder support events of the kind "please get a
selection from the user," to return something like the AppParmHndl every
app gets at startup.

For Dean, Darin, and whatever other blue meanies still monitor this group:
the Finder is the canonical system interface for the user; it provides a
"sanitized," high-level, guaranteed-to-work-or-your-money-back interface
to every feature the user can see.  As such, it can also leverage a LOT of
features into EVERY Macintosh app...IF there are AE's to allow all those
apps to request services from the Finder.

I hate to reinvent the wheel.  I love to leverage off other great work.
The Finder is a Michelin radial -- I WANT to use it, I DON'T want to 
reinvent it.  The Finder SHOULD be the "hub" application for cooperating
AE-aware apps, first among equals.

"Make it so."
	- J-L Picard
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=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com