Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] AppleEvents and GraphicConverter

At 12:57 +0100 2002.06.01, Alan Fry wrote:
>At the very end of GraphicConverter's Manual it tells you how to
>convert graphic files from one format to another. Based on that
>'recipe' the following AEBuild (surprisingly enough) works:
>
>	$evt = AEBuildAppleEvent(
>	    'gcSt','xCnf', 'sign', 'GKON', 0, 0,
>	    qq(
>	    	kysc:TEXT(\@),
>	    	kytg:TEXT(\@),
>	        kywf:1
>	     ), $source, $target
>	) or die $^E;
>
>where $source and $target are full-path file-names.
>
>However I simply cannot find an event 'xCnf' of class 'gcSt' nor any
>of the keys anywhere in the GraphicConverter 'aete' resource. Can
>anyone shed any light on this?

aete resources exist to help other programs (Script Editor) and people to
use Apple events with that program/library.  But they do not necessarily
have a direct relationship with the actual events and classes available in
the program/library.  IOW, the aete resource appears to be incomplete.


>A frustration with the script is that it opens a window while the
>conversion goes on, although nothing is actually drawn in the window.
>Can anyone suggest a way of stopping the window being drawn or
>drawing it off-screen or something?

Well, if you could keep the app hidden in the background, would that be
sufficient?  Other than that, though, I have no thought offhand about how
it could be done.


>I hope this is not too far OT

I don't find discussions of Apple events to be offtopic for this list at
all.  :)

>but it would be very useful to be able
>to convert 'gif' and 'jpeg' files to 'pict' format, on the fly and
>behind the scenes, so that MacPerl can draw them in a MacWindow. The
>end use is Toolbox related even if the question isn't.

Very nice idea.

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