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NSAppleEventManagerMBS class

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
class Apple Script MBS MacCocoa Plugin 12.5 ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No Desktop, Console & Web
The class for the Apple Event Manager.

Provides a mechanism for registering handler routines for specific types of Apple events and dispatching events to those handlers.

Cocoa provides built-in scriptability support that uses scriptability information supplied by an application to automatically convert Apple events into script command objects that perform the desired operation. However, some applications may want to perform more basic Apple event handling, in which an application registers handlers for the Apple events it can process, then calls on the Apple Event Manager to dispatch received Apple events to the appropriate handler. NSAppleEventManager supports these mechanisms by providing methods to register and remove handlers and to dispatch Apple events to the appropriate handler, if one exists. For related information, see How Cocoa Applications Handle Apple Events (on Apple Developer Website).

For information about the Apple Event Manager, see Apple Event Manager Reference and Apple Events Programming Guide (on Apple Developer Website).

This class has no sub classes.

Some examples using this class:

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