Any documentation on "choose remote application" (AppleEvent, AppleScript)?

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jfaughnan@spamcop.net - 10 Nov 2005 17:01 GMT

I've been trying to find documentation on some of the AppleScript
functionality that was added with Tiger (AppleScript 1.10 I believe).
In particular the AppleEvent used to communicate with an application
running in a specific user context on a remote machine: "choose remote
application".

I have not been able to locate any documentation or source code
examples that discuss this. I've used Google web, Google groups and
Apple's developer site.

Could someone point me to any documentation? Perhaps it's present
somewhere on the downloadable Apple Developer Tools CD?

Any pointer to code examples or a reference is all I need.

Thanks!!

john
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jfaughnan@spamcop.net - 11 Nov 2005 16:37 GMT

I think I have an answer to my question. There is no documentation. I
was able through some hints from experts and some guessing to make it
work. See

http://googlefaughnan.blogspot.com/2005/11/applescript-adventures-updating-clien
t.html

for links to the code and a digression on why this is undocumented.
(Basically -- Fast User Switching introduced a major set of issues for
AppleEvents, and they're not solved yet. Maybe in 10.5.)

john

> I've been trying to find documentation on some of the AppleScript
> functionality that was added with Tiger (AppleScript 1.10 I believe).
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> jfaughnan@spamcop.net
> meta: jfaughnan, jgfaughnan, AppleScript, AppleEvent, remote communication

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Any documentation on "choose remote application" (AppleEvent, AppleScript)?