set the hideconsolewindows to true will do what you wish. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Brozycki <jo...@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
> Regarding shell commands and LiveCode.... > > I've noticed that under OS X, invocation of a shell command is silent. > But under Windows, you see a CMD window quickly pop up and disappear. I > haven't found any options to prevent the shell command popping up under > Windows, but wondered if anyone knew of a way to prevent it from happening. > > Thanks, > John > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > > > I'm having trouble with the livecode shell and cd command also. > > > > pwd in a terminal does: > > > > :~/ runrev 4.5/livecode-4.5.2$ > > > > cd .. > > > > :~/ runrev 4.5$ > > > > pwd > > > > runrev 4.5$ > > > > If you do the exact same things using put shell("...."), this doesn't > work. > > In particular, > > > > put shell("pwd") > > > > does indeed return the working directory, but > > > > put shell("cd ..") > > > > does not work at all. Why not? Probably an obvious reason - is it > > something to do with escaping characters? > > > > Peter > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/lc-shell-and-command-line-tp4036681p4038742.html > > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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