Re: Send an event to another app

FROM : Kyle Sluder
DATE : Thu Mar 06 06:08:35 2008

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Alex Kac <<email_removed>> wrote:
> I actually thought of that first - even though I'm a Win32 dev, I am a
>  constant Mac user since 1994. But I'm not an AppleScript expert and I
>  kept getting errors saying it didn't understand the message. I do know
>  the app I'm working with is Cocoa based so I would assume its
>  NSDocument based. Lots of assumptions.


Unless the app you're trying to control exposes itself through
AppleScript, Apple Events (which AppleScript is a pretty interface
for), or some other IPC mechanism, you can't cause things to happen in
it from another application.

--Kyle Sluder