From 3941e1bf85cdad02f5f7825d61cbbded49d035fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Spiros <joseph.spiros@ithinksw.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:07:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added sendAEWithSendString method for advanced AE queries...
 This is starting to depress me.

---
 ITAppleEventCenter.h |  1 +
 ITAppleEventCenter.m | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ITAppleEventCenter.h b/ITAppleEventCenter.h
index a458d87..2be9ede 100755
--- a/ITAppleEventCenter.h
+++ b/ITAppleEventCenter.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 - (NSString *)sendAEWithRequestedArray:(NSArray *)array eventClass:(NSString*)eventClass eventID:(NSString*)eventID appPSN:(ProcessSerialNumber)psn;
 - (void)sendAEWithEventClass:(NSString*)eventClass eventID:(NSString*)eventID appPSN:(ProcessSerialNumber)psn;
 
+- (NSString*)sendAEWithSendString:(NSString*)nssendString eventClass:(NSString*)eventClass eventID:(NSString*)eventID appPSN:(ProcessSerialNumber)psn;
 - (long)sendAEWithSendStringForNumber:(NSString*)string eventClass:(NSString*)eventClass eventID:(NSString*)eventID appPSN:(ProcessSerialNumber)psn;
 
 - (void)printCarbonDesc:(AEDesc*)desc;
diff --git a/ITAppleEventCenter.m b/ITAppleEventCenter.m
index fa7dc28..b2c1d46 100755
--- a/ITAppleEventCenter.m
+++ b/ITAppleEventCenter.m
@@ -107,6 +107,71 @@ static ITAppleEventCenter *_sharedAECenter = nil;
     return _finalString;
 }
 
+- (NSString*)sendAEWithSendString:(NSString*)nssendString eventClass:(NSString*)eventClass eventID:(NSString*)eventID appPSN:(ProcessSerialNumber)psn
+{
+    //Add error checking...
+    AEEventClass eClass = *((unsigned long*)[eventClass UTF8String]);
+    AEEventID	 eID    = *((unsigned long*)[eventID UTF8String]);
+
+    const char *sendString = [nssendString UTF8String];
+    NSString  *_finalString = nil;
+
+    AppleEvent sendEvent, replyEvent;
+
+    DescType resultType;
+    Size resultSize, charResultSize;
+
+    AEBuildError buildError;
+    OSStatus err;
+    OSErr err2, err3;
+    /*
+	if ((GetProcessPID(&psn, &pid) == noErr) && (pid == 0)) {
+	    NSLog(@"Error getting PID of application! Exiting.");
+	    return nil;
+	}
+	*/
+    //NSLog(@"_sendString: %s", sendString);
+
+    err = AEBuildAppleEvent(eClass, eID, typeProcessSerialNumber,(ProcessSerialNumber*)&psn, sizeof(ProcessSerialNumber), kAutoGenerateReturnID, 0, &sendEvent, &buildError, sendString);
+
+    //[self printCarbonDesc:&sendEvent];
+
+    if (err) {
+        NSLog(@"%d:%d at \"%@\"",(int)buildError.fError,buildError.fErrorPos,[sendString substringToIndex:buildError.fErrorPos]);
+    }
+
+    err = AESend(&sendEvent, &replyEvent, kAEWaitReply, kAENormalPriority, kNoTimeOut, idleUPP, NULL);
+
+    //[self printCarbonDesc:&replyEvent];
+
+    if (err) {
+        NSLog(@"Send Error: %i",err);
+    } else {
+        unichar *result = 0;
+
+        err2 = AESizeOfParam(&replyEvent, keyDirectObject, &resultType, &resultSize);
+        result = malloc(resultSize);
+
+        if (err2) {
+            NSLog(@"Error After AESizeOfParam: %i", err2);
+        } else {
+            err3 = AEGetParamPtr(&replyEvent, keyDirectObject, resultType, NULL, result, resultSize, &charResultSize);
+
+            if (err3) {
+                NSLog(@"Error After AEGetParamPtr: %i", err3);
+            } else {
+                _finalString = [NSString stringWithCharacters:result length:charResultSize/sizeof(unichar)];
+            }
+        }
+        free(result);
+    }
+
+    AEDisposeDesc(&sendEvent);
+    AEDisposeDesc(&replyEvent);
+
+    return _finalString;
+}
+
 - (long)sendAEWithRequestedKeyForNumber:(NSString*)key eventClass:(NSString*)eventClass eventID:(NSString*)eventID appPSN:(ProcessSerialNumber)psn
 {
     //Add error checking...
-- 
2.20.1