Re: inter-app communication to LiveCode?

2019-09-20 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Thank you Scott and Trevor! Trevor, I think what you wrote certainly puts me in the right direction. Peter > On Sep 19, 2019, at 9:12 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 5:25 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >

Re: inter-app communication to LiveCode?

2019-09-19 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 5:25 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > A user asked about “linking” to my desktop LC app from a PDF. Is there > anything in the PDF spec that does this? His idea was that it the link > would do more than just opening up my app,

Re: inter-app communication to LiveCode?

2019-09-19 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
Peter, I’m not sure about “linking” but I have an app that creates PDFs and then appears to “edit” them later. The hack I use is to include all the information (In this case it is a relatively small amount) needed to recreate the PDF as meta-data when I originally create the PDF. If you were

inter-app communication to LiveCode?

2019-09-19 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Hi, A user asked about “linking” to my desktop LC app from a PDF. Is there anything in the PDF spec that does this? His idea was that it the link would do more than just opening up my app, but contain data that indicates a specified “page” in my app. My application is Mac/Windows. Peter