STAZ, er Chris, er Sir (embarressed grin)

GBeckman, GBeckman@... posted a question on how to make an FB app
scriptable with AE. More or less: had anyone been there?

I tried to tell him that it was a big hunk that he was preparing
to chew into, and (personally) one of my holy grails...
I've played around (unsuccessfully) with preparing for scripting
and have shared ideas with the list, BUT

no way have I got a product, no way have I got a website (yet),
no way would i want to stop revenues for STAZ'n'CO (all the while
trying to give an honest answer none the less).

>>I believe that the STAZ A&E filter is for sending AEs to other apps.
>>I don't wish to cut revenue for STAZ'n'co, but if budget is tight
>>check first, else buy anyway, i'm sure you'll learn a lot of
>>important stuff.
>
>This is really a good thing. When I wrote the AE handlers first used in 
>PG, no one at Zedcor knew how to handle Apple Events. They used my code 
>to work in core events and to provide examples. Years later, we found 
>that programmers needed additional help at solving the AE requirements. 
>That was when I started the AE filter. Andy did some work on it, then 
>David took the project to the finish line. This took about 2 months of 
>work which we sold for $29.50. If there had been another example on AE at 
>the time, we would have gladly scrapped the project and pointed our 
>customers at jonathan's web site. (We obviously didn't make any money. We 
>just tried to keep customers happy.)

What is sad about this post, apart from the STAZ misunderstanding my post
(wasn't it Oscar Wilde who sed that the only thing separating the English
and the Americans, was the language :)
*is that it ain't damn fair*. I want STAZ'n'Co to recover their investment
on FB, the filters and the rest, not just for FB, but also for things
like this list, and some fine folks that I've met (virtually)
because, or thanks to, being in FB. 
'cos of course without this list, I'd never have rubbed bytes with you 
all.


Scuse me
jonathan


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