Sorry there was a typo in the second link. It should be: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/appleevent
It picked up a period at the end. Martin Koob Martin Koob via use-livecode wrote > 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@.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
