### Scripting Messages

The scripting system defines four generic messages that can operate on the specific properties of an object and two meta-messages that query an object about the messages it can handle. See "Scripting" in The Application Kit chapter for a full explanation.

### B_COUNT_PROPERTIES

This message requests the number of properties supported by the receiver. It contains no data, but the reply message should contain one field:

Field | Type code | Description
"result" | `B_INT32_TYPE` | The number of properties supported.

### B_GET_SUPPORTED_SUITES

This message requests the names of all message suites that the receiver supports. It doesn't contain any data, but the message that's sent in reply has one field:

Field | Type code | Description
"suites" | `B_STRING_TYPE` | An array of suite names.

A suite is a named set of messages and specifiers. A BHandler supports the suite if it can respond to the messages and resolve the specifiers.

### B_SET_PROPERTY , B_GET_PROPERTY , B_CREATE_PROPERTY , B_DELETE_PROPERTY

These messages—as their names state—target a particular property under the control of the target handler. They have the following data fields:

Field | Type code | Description
"specifiers" | `B_MESSAGE_TYPE` | An array of one or more BMessages that specify the targeted property. See `AddSpecifier()` in the BMessage class of the Application Kit for details on the contents of a specifier.
"data" | variable | For `B_SET_PROPERTY` messages only, the data that should be set. The data type depends on the targeted property.

A class can choose to respond to these messages, in any combination, for any set of self-declared properties.

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