Ken Tozier wrote:
I've been working with AppleEvents and discovering their internals by
setting the following in the terminal
export AEDebugSends=1; export AEDebugReceives=1
What I'd like to be able to do is observe apple events exactly like
this tool but format them into an NSDictionary so they can be used to
easily build complex events. Since the above tool observes events, it
must be possible, but how would I capture these events in my own tool?
Is this something that needs to be a kernel extension? Or is there a
higher level way to do it?
Have you looked at AE Monitor?
http://software.oxalyn.com/AEMonitor
Not aware of public APIs for sniffing AE traffic myself (if any exist,
they aren't advertised), but at worst you could always capture and
parse AEDebug output yourself. It's pretty straightforward, and most
of it could probably be massaged to pass to the Apple Event Manager's
AEBuild* functions and reconstitute that way.
There's also ASTranslate, which allows you to run AppleScript commands
and get the equivalent Python/Ruby/ObjC appscript code (basically the
same trick as Script Editor's 'Event Log' pane uses):
http://appscript.sourceforge.net/tools.html
Mike Ash's AEVTBuilder might also be of some interest to you, being an
ObjC version of the AEBuild* functions.
HTH
has
p.s. None of this is specific to Cocoa, so might be a good idea to
move future discussion to applescript-implementors.
--
Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net
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