Yes!
My example was mostly built on a 'lab experiment' model.
Phil
On 11/7/11 7:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Phil Davis wrote:
On Mac OS X, you can do it from the command line.
1) create a standalone app (named "Untitled1" in this example) that has this
stack script:
on startup
dispatch $1 to me
quit
end startup
As an example of how to use environment variables that's an excellent one, but
for production work it may pay to be a little paranoid, taking the view that
an API like a command line is a potential point of security exposure.
Rather than execute anything that comes in on the command line, we could
instead parse it to ensure it meets a list of acceptable commands:
on startup
switch word 1 of $1
case "ExampleCommand1"
case "ExampleCommand2"
case "ExampleCommand3"
dispatch $1 to me
default
put "Invalid command: "& word 1 of $1
end switch
quit
end startup
For the relatively low cost of double-checking the command in the string $1 we
can limit the range of things that the app can be used for.
It's a little more work, but prevents using the full range of LiveCode to
manipulate the app in unintended ways.
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