Aha! Now I understand. I was confused by the fact that Eudora would
handle the AppleScript version but not the same (apparently anyway)
command send using request.
Thanks to all for the help.
>At 4:12 PM -0700 8/27/2001, Michael J. Lew wrote:
>>However, this Transcript fails, returning only "Got error -1708 when
>>sending Apple event" in the result:
> >
>>put "the count of messages of mailbox " & quote & "In" & quote into myReq
>>request myReq from application "Eudora"
>>put it & return & the result
>>
>>I can successfully use the do field as applescript method in the Rev
>>1.1 alpha, and will. However, I would like to understand the request
> >command (and related) better.
Jeanne DeVoto replied:
>The request command (and the send to program command) are related to
>AppleScript in the sense that it's all built on Apple Events, but "request"
>doesn't simply send a line of AppleScript to the recipient program.
>Instead, it sends the "eval" Apple Event along with the string ("put the
>count of messages..."). The eval event requests the app to evaluate the
>expression given, using its own internal scripting structure (whatever that
>may be - e.g. in HyperCard, HyperTalk is used). And not all applications -
>not even all AppleScript-friendly ones - can handle scripting internally.
>
>In this case, error -1708 is errAEEventNotHandled - in other words, Eudora
>can't deal with the eval Apple Event it's being sent. This is why request
>doesn't work with the line of AppleScript in this case.
>
>Hope this clarifies a bit....
>
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