I represent an Apple Event Descriptor. I am a low-level representation of Apple Event (and hence Applescript) information. For further Information, see Apple's Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communications, at

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/IAC/IAC-2.html.

Essentially, I represent a record comprising a one-word "string" (treating the word as fourbyte characters) representing a data type, followed by a pointer to a pointer (a handle) to the data I represent. Care must be taken to assure that the Handle data is disposed after use, or memory leaks result. At this time, I make no effort to do this automatically through finalization.

	converting
	asCompiledApplescript asCompiledApplescriptThenDispose asOSAIDThenDisposeAEDescWith: asShort asShortThenDispose asString asStringThenDispose to:

	private
	createFromScpt: createFromText: createNull primAECoerceDesc:to: primAECreateDesc:from: primAEDescToString: primAEDisposeDesc primAEGetKeyPtr:type:actual:to:

	private
	primSizeAEDesc

	accessing	top
	dataSize
	dispose

	converting	top
	asCompiledApplescript
	asCompiledApplescriptThenDispose
	asOSAIDThenDisposeAEDescWith:
	asShort
	asShortThenDispose
	asString Answer a string that represents the receiver.
	asStringThenDispose
	to:

	private	top
	createFromScpt:
	createFromText:
	createNull
	primAECoerceDesc:to:
	primAECreateDesc:from:
	primAEDescToString:
	primAEDisposeDesc
	primAEGetKeyPtr:type:actual:to:

	as yet unclassified	top
	new Answer a new instance of me, with size = 0.
	nullType
	scptTypeOn:
	textTypeOn:

	private	top
	primSizeAEDesc