Basic Verbs

  • abs - Get the absolute value of a number.

  • appleEvent - Send an Apple event.

  • callScript - Call a script with a list of parameters and a context.

  • callXCMD - Execute an XCMD.

  • close - Close a window displaying a Frontier object.

  • complexEvent - Send an Apple event, storing the results in a table.

  • countAppleListItems - Count items in an Apple event descriptor list.

  • DDEEvent - Send an Apple event of the class 'DDE '.

  • defined - Determine if an object exists.

  • delete - Delete an object.

  • direction - Coerce a value to a direction.

  • displayString - Convert a value to a display string representation.

  • edit - Open a Frontier object for editing.

  • evaluate - Evaluate a UserTalk expression.

  • finderEvent - Send an Apple event without waiting for a reply.

  • gestalt - Look up a selector in the Macintosh Gestalt Manager.

  • getAppleListItem - Get an item from a Macintosh descriptor list.

  • getBinaryType - Get the binary type of an object.

  • getEventAttribute - Get an Apple event attribute.

  • indexOf - Get the index of a Frontier object.

  • insertionLoc - Create a typeInsertionLoc descriptor record.

  • memAvail - Determine the number of bytes available ni Frontier's memory space.

  • mod - Get the modulus of two numbers.

  • msg - Display a message in the About window.

  • namedElement - Get a specifier for the named object in a container.

  • nameOf - Get the name of a Frontier object.

  • new - Create a new Frontier object.

  • nthElement - Create an object specifier for the nth element in a container.

  • nthWindow - Create an object specifier for the nth window.

  • pack - Pack a Frontier value into a binary object.

  • parentOf - Get the address of the parent of a Frontier object.

  • property - Create an object specifier for the property of a container.

  • putAppleListItem - Put a value into an Apple event descriptor list.

  • random - Get a random number.

  • rollBeachBall - Roll the beach ball cursor.

  • runSelection - Evaluate the selected expression.

  • scriptError - Generate a script error message.

  • setBinaryType - Set the binary type of a Frontier object.

  • setEventInteraction - Enable or disable interaction for an Apple event.

  • setEventTimeOut - Set the timeout for an Apple event.

  • setEventTransactionID - Set the transaction ID for an Apple event.

  • setObj - Creates an Apple event object specifier for an object within container of the given class.

  • setTimeCreated - Set the creation date of a Frontier object.

  • setTimeModified - Set the modification date of a Frontier object.

  • sizeOf - Get the size of a value.

  • sysCrash - Drop into the debugger.

  • systemEvent - Send an Apple event to a system event handlers.

  • tableEvent - Send an Apple event, where the parameters are stored in a table.

  • timeCreated - Get the creation date for a Frontier object.

  • timeModified - Get the modification date of a Frontier object.

  • transactionEvent - Send an Apple event within the context of a specific transaction.

  • typeOf - Get the type of a Frontier object.

  • unpack - Unpack a Frontier object that was previously packed as binary data.