Mark, That is unfortunate. The 3rd party middleware tool I’m using to send command line parameters doesn’t support AppleEvents. It only supports sending command line parameters.
Please consider adding a feature that will let me catch the command line parameters for Mac apps like relaunch does for Windows. I noticed the following command line reference in the 9.0.4 rc 1 release notes. Isn’t this the kind of thing I’m asking for? If so, how does it work? > It is also possible to deactivate LiveCode with: > <livecode> deactivate > LiveCode 9.0.4-rc-1 Release Notes 3/28/19 > Since LiveCode is actually a GUI application, it needs to be run slightly > differently from other command-line programs. > On Windows, the command is: > start /wait <livecode> activate -file LICENSE -passphrase SECRET start /wait > <livecode> deactivate > On Mac OS X, you need to do: > <livecode>/Contents/MacOS/LiveCode activate -file LICENSE -passphrase SECRET > <livecode>/Contents/MacOS/LiveCode deactivate Thank you, Bill Vlahos > On Mar 28, 2019, at 8:34 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > >> I want my application to be able to catch parameters sent to it via >> the command line. >> The relaunch handler does that for Windows applications and also >> doesn’t open another instance of the application. You are correct that >> Mac apps run in a single instance by default and that is the behavior >> I want. >> I don’t want to open a document…I want to do something with the >> command line parameters sent to my app. > > The simple answer is that there isn't an equivalent. > > The relaunch mechanism on Windows was added to make it easy to add > single-instance like behavior on Windows (just as macOS has). > > However remember that macOS has the AppleEvent system for making it easy to > do inter-process communication, so on Mac you could use that. > > i.e. Make the command-line tool use AppleScript (either by do ... as > applescript) or the 'send to program' syntax to send apple events to instruct > the main app. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com <mailto:m...@livecode.com> ~ > http://www.livecode.com/ <http://www.livecode.com/> > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
