Read Me Net Events 1.0b6

NetEvents NetEvents is a scriptable TCP/IP application that allows script authors to use Frontier or AppleScript to create TCP/IP connections to other server, accept TCP/IP connections, read and write data, and perform domain name operations. NetEvents is "self-documenting" in that the AppleScript Dictionary documents the calls supported by NetEvents and the sample scripts show detailed examples of how to use NetEvents. More detailed information on NetEvents can be found on-line at: http://www.biap.com/downloads/netevents.html Legal Stuff NetEvents is being distributed at no cost to the Macintosh scripting community. Yep, it's free. It's still copyrighted by the author and you need the author's permission if you want to redistribute NetEvents on any medium. Otherwise, have fun. NetEvents Release Notes NetEvents 1.0b6, 2/28/97 Corrected a few bugs. Beefed up error detection. • Listens that complete successfully now properly send the LISC event. This was broken under b5 and only worked for connections that were opened with no pending data. • Quitting NetEvents while TCP/IP operations are in progress doesn't crash now. NetEvents waits until the operations terminate. Pending AppleEvents will fail and callers will be notified accordingly. • Requesting the status of stream that no longer exists (or never existed) returns INACTIVE instead of CLOSED as with previous versions. This is a more appropriate response since the connection is invalid and not just closed. • Added a key to the connection status colors in the About Box. About Box now doesn't block TCP/IP operations. NetEvents 1.0b5, 2/16/97 One new event, spiffy new interface, minor bug fixes. • corrected a problem where Listens that were aborted still resulted in a Listen Complete event being sent by NetEvents. Aborting a listen now results in an "event not handled" error being returned to the caller and the stream being discarded. • added a new event, MyIPAddress, that looks like: return (appleEvent (netEvents.id, 'WAPI', 'MYIP')) and returns a long. This event returns the TCP/IP address of the local host. • reduced the amount of debugging output and cleaned up the status window. Added indicator lights for each connection that has been created. Colors are as follows: gray - inactive or new red - closed orange - closing yellow - open blue - data pending green - listening -1- NetEvents 1.0b4, 2/15/97 New events, better closing behavior (I think). • Added AbortStream event. In UserTalk: return (appleEvent (netEvents.id, 'WAPI', 'ABOR', '----', long (stream))) Kills any stream, regardless of the state it's in. • Added AddrToName event. In UserTalk: dns = appleEvent (netEvents.id, 'WAPI', 'AD2N', '----', long (adr)) Takes a 4 byte integer address as returned from ListenComplete or NameToAddr and converts it into a domain name. • Changed CloseStream code to consume any pending data on the connection before trying to c…