• appExec method
This command executes various tasks at the application's level. The possible values for the method argument are:

aboutPanel	Display the About window
characterPanel	Open the character palette
colorPanel	Open the color palette
hide	Hide all Alpha's windows and next application is activated
hideOthers	Hide windows of all other applications
miniaturizeAll	Miniaturize all Alpha's windows
terminate	Quit Alpha
unhide	Restore hidden windows to the screen
unhideAll	Unhide all applications, including Alpha

Additional information for developers: the method argument can also be the name of any Cocoa method of the NSApplication class that accepts a single nullable argument, like runPageLayout, showHelp. If the method does not exist, it is ignored, otherwise it is invoked with a nil argument.