I checked the LiveCode dictionary in my hot off the press PDF version to see if there was more info on what data request AppleEvent data could give. I found a reference to
For more information about Apple events, see Apple Computer's technical documentation, Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication, located at http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/IAC/IAC-2.html. Once I saw 'Inside Macintosh' I suspected this is a dead link. I found that is already noted in bugzilla - https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20022 I did a quick search on and found this in Apple's documentation https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/appleevent. Should this be the link for that dictionary entry? Martin Koob Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 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 ~ > mark@ > ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@.runrev > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html _______________________________________________ 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
