Bill, This is a shot in the dark but if you're doing that on Mac OS X then I think you may be able to use AppleEvents. I don't know if they are still supported.
Cheers andre On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Bill Vlahos <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: > Mike, > > I’m not sure. I want to have a running application and then periodically a > different application on the computer might send my app a text string. > > Scenario > A different application sends the command pathtomyapp 555-555-5555. > > My application would have some way of receiving the command and then call > a handler in my app to do a search.. > > I don’t see what my handler would look like in my app. > > Thanks, > Bill Vlahos > > On Sep 10, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Michael Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Look up $ in the dictionary. You can get access to all of the > environment variables for command line apps. Is that what you are looking > for? > > > > -= Mike > > > > > > On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: > > > >> I want to have a different program pass a parameter (in this case a > callerID phone number) to my LC application via a shell command to do a > search in and bring up a person’s record. > >> > >> How can I receive it and handle it? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Bill Vlahos > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. _______________________________________________ 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
