Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-16 Thread David Bovill
What is required to create a cli for an executable? AFAIK it's not something you could achieve with an external? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pref

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
does the relaunch message not work on command line apps in windows? On 14 Jan 2011, at 21:31, David Bovill wrote: > Hmmm... I wander if simply polling for an environmental variable change will > work. In the current case I know that LiveCode is open - I just want the > external command line progr

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Hmmm... I wander if simply polling for an environmental variable change will work. In the current case I know that LiveCode is open - I just want the external command line program to redirect the browser call back to Livecode and not open up another browser. On 14 January 2011 16:11, Mike Bonner

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Ah. Maybe a plugin thats set to start with LC that listens to a socket? Or checks an env variable ever so often, or a file for changes, or a combination of these such as hit a listening port in your plugin and check a file/var whatever. As for the multiple instances problem, if you go with the pl

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Since i've realized I'm not sure what you mean, i'll cover more bases. In windows a batch file like the following: start /D"C:\Program Files (x86)\RunRev\LiveCode 4.5.3" livecode.exe %1 start %1 Will on the first line, launch livecode (first define the directory, then the executable itself, then

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Mike - can't I get paid more than that? What about $2 :) Now I wonder what happens if Livecode is already open hmmm that's not going to work - it just opens another instance... is usppose the only way is to have LiveCode Run a server? On 14 January 2011 15:29, Andre Garzia wrote: > Da

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Andre Garzia
David, I don't understand. Do you want to launch livecode or a web browser? Andre On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:54 AM, David Bovill wrote: > Actually maybe it is not so hard :) I want to  create a way to launch > LiveCode using shell, but also to pass to it a url in the first param of the > shell

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Nvm, its early and I just re-iterated what you aleady know you need to do. *goes back to bed* On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > From the command line if you do yourApp http://www.google.com > > $1 will contain the url. Works the same from a bash script. > > #!/bin/bash > pat

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Bonner
>From the command line if you do yourApp http://www.google.com $1 will contain the url. Works the same from a bash script. #!/bin/bash path/to/yourApp $1 -- will call your app using parameter 1 as parameter 1 inside the app. -- Access it the same way within the app itself using $1 $1 is actuall

Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Actually maybe it is not so hard :) I want to create a way to launch LiveCode using shell, but also to pass to it a url in the first param of the shell command. As I don't think you can do this directly anymore using shell scritps written in LiveCode - I think I need to write a bash script and set