Pete, Most programmes were not written for socket communication. Instead, they write to stdout, which can be read from using the read from process command. Writing to stdout is much easier than writing to a socket. However, if you are writing the app you want to communicate with yourself, then you might as well use sockets. IIRC writing to stdout doesn't work correctly in LiveCode, which leaves sockets as a good alternative.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Become our partner in sales http://qery.us/16r Start selling Color Converter today. 20% commission! On 9 nov 2011, at 08:38, Pete wrote: > Very useful lesson. I guess I'm still interested in the > differences/pros/cons of using sockets versus open process/read from > process/write to process LC commands (assuming both processes are LC). Do > those commands use sockets under the covers? > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > _______________________________________________ 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
