Communicate over a network

Question

I have been searching for an answer for this for a while and haven't found anything.
What i want is to have the same application running on 2 computers that are networked. I have the internal IP address of each machine. When the user on one computer pushes a button, then some data is sent over the network and add to a table view. The ideal situation would be to call an applescript handler on the remote application to add the data to the table. Preferably i would like to use remote apple events, and not ssh.
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

This is fairly straightforward, provided the application(s) in question support AppleScript.
There are two basic elements to it.
First write the script so that it works locally, using normal 'tell application "x"' syntax.
Secondly enable Remote Apple Events (via System Preferences -> Sharing)
Now all you need to do it link the two together which is done by a minor tweak to your 'tell application command.
Ordinarily, when running locally, you say:
tell application "x"
  -- your commands here
end tell
To target the application over the network you use the form:
tell application "x" of machine "eppc://ip.of.remote.machine/"
  -- your commands here
end tell
The "... of machine..." syntax targets the remote machine and, provided Remote Apple Events are enabled, should do what you want.