TclAE TclAE enables Tcl applications on the Macintosh to use AppleEvents for communication with other programs
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extension tcl tcl extension exec implementation appleevent extension appleevent

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TclAE enables Tcl applications on the Macintosh to use AppleEvents for communication with other programs TclAE enables Tcl applications on the Macintosh to use AppleEvents for communication with other programs and for the AppleEvent Manager to communicate with Tcl applications.The nature of the Mac OS (at least prior to MacOS X) makes it impossible to implement any meaningful exec command. Between agreeable applications, AppleEvents will allow communication of anything that can be passed as an argument to a command-line application and much more. The key is to make the applications agreeable. Tcl is an attempt to get Tcl to support its end of the bargain. Tcl is complementary to Jim Ingham's Tclapplescript.shlb (included in the Tcl distributions). Depending on your task and your relative familiarity with raw AppleEvents and AppleScript, you may find one tool or the other preferable.

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