That all sounds right. Another method is to do everything in the startup handler then quit at the end. Startup happens before the window is created.
Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Feb 2016, at 7:23 AM, Matt Maier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please correct me if any of the following is wrong. > > So in general we can run a standalone executable from the command line. It > will fire up in whatever way it knows how. Normally that means the GUI will > appear and the program will read/write visually. But if the code knows to > listen on STDIN and respond on STDOUT (or more accurately redirect them?), > then all visible elements can be hidden* and just the command line can be > used to interact with the standalone. > > * One way is to pass -ui as confirmed by a couple discussions on using > Livecode from the command line, but I can't find -ui in google searches. > Another way is to set the visible of the stack to false. Another way is to > set the location of the stack to somewhere off screen. > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Mark Wieder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 02/04/2016 10:28 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> >> The way to get rid of the GUI is use the -ui command line option. >> >> Alternately, what I do is hide the stack in the startup handler. Or just >> move it to an offscreen location. That way you don't have to deal with any >> special command line options. >> >> -- >> Mark Wieder >> [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
