AppleEvent

the current card whenever the application receives an Apple event.Syntax:

appleEvent <class>, <ID>, <sender>

Examples:

on appleEvent theClass,theID
-- execute a set of statements in a text file
  if theClass is "misc" and theID is "dosc" then
    request appleEvent data -- get the content of the AppleEvent
    do URL ("file:" & it)
  end if
  pass appleEvent
end appleEvent

Handle the appleEvent message to respond to a custom Apple event, or one that you want to handle specially.

Use the request appleEvent command to obtain the data associated with an Apple event.

For more information about Apple events, see Apple Computer's technical documentation, Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication, located at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/IAC/IAC-2.html.

Parameters:

• class: The class and ID together identify the exact Apple event that wasreceived.The class parameter is the event class: possible classesinclude aevt (for required Apple Events such as "open document" and"print" ), misc (for miscellaneous events such as "do script" ), andothers.
• ID: The ID parameter is the name of the specific Apple event.
• sender: The sender parameter is the address of the process that sent the Appleevent.