Resources - Lasso & Tango - Send Apple Events
Last Modified 8/19/03.

You can expand the functionality of both Lasso and Tango by sending Apple Events to other applications. For example, Lasso's apple event tags can add the username Diana, password "chocolate" to your WebStar realm "TESTREALM" so you can allow your users to maintain their own WebStar passwords.

[AE_Event: class='WWW‡', id='AUsr', target='WebStar', wait_reply='true']
'----':"Diana", AUpw:"chocolate", AUrm:"TESTREALM"
[/AE_Event]

You must have the optional Apple_Event_Tags.mod Lasso module loaded for this to work. The double quotes should be the fancy kind created with the option left bracket and shift option left bracket key combinations. Blueworld provides the Lasso Capture AE control panel that will get you pretty close to the syntax. For example, adding the password through an applescript yielded:

[ae_event: target="WebSTAR", class='WWW, id='\AU]
r{'----':"Diana", AUpw:"chocolate", AUrm:"TESTREALM", &subj:'null'()
[/ae_event]

Pretty close. Just adjust the ID, take off the r{ and ignore anything after the ending quote of the AUrm value. The Frontier root can be a pretty good source of apple event information, too. If I go into system.verbs.apps.WebStar.addUser, I can see the apple event that Frontier sends to WebStar to add a user, appleEvent (appID, 'WWW‡', 'AUsr', '----', x, 'AUpw', password, 'AUrm', realm).

Tango's apple event sending capabilities are not as powerful because Tango can't send apple events to application's with object model based dictionaries. Most applications do have dictionaries that are object model based. MondoMail doesn't and is therefore a popular tool for Tango users. If you do need to control an application from Tango that has an object model based dictionary, you have to use an applescript as a go between.

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