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David, With respect, you cannot add AppleEvent capabilities with conditional code, nor will you be able to for the likes of QuickDraw GX and OpenDoc. Apps are either designed properly for them, or they are not – e.g. full factoring for AppleEvents. This seems to me to illustrate the problems which I perceive with such an approach – use the cross-platform path, and you will not actually produce as good a Mac app as someone concentrating on the Mac. Therefore, your app will be inferior to theirs. Fine if you are Microsoft, maybe, but a big millstone round your neck if, like me, you are a one-man shop which succeeds or fails by doing things better. Howard.