Re: command line examples

2011-05-10 Thread Todd Geist
Thanks for everyones help on this. I am getting closer. But I am still not able to get all the way there. My end goal is a server application that can run without a user logged in to the machine. The server application should be able to handle requests ether over HTTP or just plain sockets. I h

Re: command line examples

2011-05-08 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hello Todd On 6 May 2011, at 22:52, Todd Geist wrote: > Hello, > > I had nice long chat with Richard Gaskin yesterday. Amongst the myriad of > topics we discussed was how to build simple apps that could be started from > the command line and run silently in the back ground. I have been trying t

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Terry Judd
Just add this key and string to the pList file... LSUIElement 1 I'm not sure if it matters where in the pList file you put this but I always put it immediately before the LSGetAppDiedEvents key. If you want more info then head over to Ken's website... http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/live

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/6/11 10:44 PM, David C. wrote: Best I can tell, Todd just wants to be able to launch a LC executable on the Mac, but with it running as a hidden or background process, without an icon showing up in the Dock. Is that correct Todd? On Windows, this really simple sample code seems to do the jo

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 03:28:14 PM Todd Geist wrote: > But it does appear in my Dock, as I > expected, but don't want. I believe this can be avoided by setting a key value in the .plist file inside the app bundle. I think you'll find this info with a google search. Good luck! Warren __

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread David C.
Best I can tell, Todd just wants to be able to launch a LC executable on the Mac, but with it running as a hidden or background process, without an icon showing up in the Dock. Is that correct Todd? On Windows, this really simple sample code seems to do the job: on preOpenStack set the hideCon

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Jim Ault
On May 6, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Todd Geist wrote: The current user guide does have the following section on page 146 *Command-line argument variables* If you start up the application from a command line, the command name is stored in the variable $0 and any arguments passed on the command line

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread mwieder
On Fri, 6 May 2011 13:28:14 -0700, Todd Geist wrote: thanks Mark I was able to get the terminal commands to work although you need to reference the engine inside the OSX package. So I had to type the following at the terminal /Applications/LiveCode\ 4.6.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveCode -h ...ah

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Todd Geist
thanks Mark I was able to get the terminal commands to work although you need to reference the engine inside the OSX package. So I had to type the following at the terminal /Applications/LiveCode\ 4.6.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveCode -h The same also works for standalones. You have to reference the e

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread mwieder
On Fri, 6 May 2011 08:10:52 -0700, Todd Geist wrote: Is this just left over cruft? Well, the -h argument is used by the engine, so that's just wrong. However... Not only is this *not* just leftover cruft, but I have applications that *rely* on passing and parsing commandline arguments. Ty

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread John Craig
I used an old engine to run a Linux server process a while ago. It required Xvfb (virtual frame buffer) to be running so the engine had a display to write to. I think that's as close as faceless as you can get with LC - I'll try and dig out the version I was using and get you some more info

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Bernard Devlin
The old engine used to be able to execute scripts. That is, you could invoke the engine using something like this: #!/path/to/engine on startup put "hello" end startup IIRC this functionality was removed at the time that the "on-rev" product was launched. Perhaps the functionality was rem

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Todd Geist
Does anybody know if the old engine allowed you to build a standalone that could be started with no UI and stay running in the background? Todd On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Matthias Rebbe http://www.geistinteractive.com> 805-419-9382 ___ use-livecode

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 10:10:52 AM Todd Geist wrote: > Command-line argument variables Hi Todd, It looks as if you have to program your app to respond according to what values any such variable(s) contain, such as 'if $1 is "true" then doSomeThing' It looks af it will take some craft in ord

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Ah, now i understand. You are right, command line mode was possible up to version 3.5. If you need command line mode and if you have an active maintenance, why not asking supp...@runrev.com for a key for v 3.5? I am pretty sure they will help. Regards, Matthias Am 06.05.2011 um 17:20 schrieb

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Todd Geist
Thanks very much for your response, but I don't think that is actually doing anything other than starting the application using the OS. It is just as if you double clicked it. I don't think that is what I am looking for. I think I am looking for command line mode Todd On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Todd Geist
The current user guide does have the following section on page 146 *Command-line argument variables* If you start up the application from a command line, the command name is stored in the variable $0 and any arguments passed on the command line are stored in numbered variables starting with the *

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Todd, you have to use open on Mac os x E.g. open 'served.app'would open the application served.app. If your are not in the folder, where the application resides you can use also paths open /whateverfolder/served.app HTH Matthias Am 06.05.2011 um 16:56 schrieb Todd Geist: > I just

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Todd Geist
I just stumbled on something that would make me sad. It seems that maybe command line mode has been removed in anything after version 4. Id this is true then I think it is very sad. Can anyone confirm this? Todd On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Todd Geist wrote: > Hello, > > I had nice long ch