science@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Zimmermann) (06/26/91)
Could somebody help me locate a simple example of a program (preferably in THINK C, but I'll take anything above assembler!) which can run under System 7 and respond to an Apple event by sending back the string "Hello World"? jkc@APPLE.COM has been kind enough to send me an example and commentary of something that does IAC with HyperCard, but it's too complex and depends on things that I don't have here (and it's in Pascal), so I haven't yet achieved any enlightenment on how to do IAC under System 7. The ideal example would be driveable from HyperCard 2.1, so that I could type send "Hi there" to program "HelloProg" and get back "Hello World" as the response (somehow). I see from some of my notes that the HC2.1 "send" command generates an event of class 'misc' with ID 'dosc', whatever that means. I also second mikef@next1.oit.unc.edu's request for examples and documentation of the use of Apple Events in HC2.1 ... in particular, if it were possible to do what I can trivially do in UNIX (fork a process with the parent controlling stdin and stdout), my life would be a happier and more productive one.... Tnx for any advice ... ^z (science@oasys.dt.navy.mil)