Re: Send to program

2012-09-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 10.09.2012 at 12:31 Uhr -0400 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote: Am I to understand that LiveCode, the great and powerful, cannot do this at all? Am I the first one that ever wanted to send a message to another machine? A new project I am working on therefore must be authored in

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread dunbarx
-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 9:44 pm Subject: Re: Send to program I think if you ignore send to program and use applescript directly you can get things accomplished. If you decide to look in that direction, check out the (old) info here. http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/10/12 10:54 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: So is it really true that I cannot send a message to another machine running liveCode: I cannot: send beep 3 to program myRemotemachine Say it ain't so. I want my Jacque. LOL. I'm flattered, but I had to look it up. I hate to be the bearer of

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread dunbarx
-Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 12:12 pm Subject: Re: Send to program On 9/10/12 10:54 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: So is it really true that I cannot send a message to another machine

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread Colin Holgate
Why have a few more replies to this topic appeared? Wasn't the link I sent a good answer? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/10/12 11:31 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Am I to understand that LiveCode, the great and powerful, cannot do this at all? It sounds like the limitation is in OS X. But I just looked at the link Colin posted and it looks like you could make that work. Or there's Ken Ray to the rescue

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not so fast. There is a Remote Apple Events thingummy in the Sharing preferences of Snow Leopard, and I think also still in Lion. If an app is written to respond to Apple Events, then it *should* work. Not sure how you would do it though. Bob On Sep 10, 2012, at 9:10 AM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread dunbarx
Bob, I checked remote Apple events in the target machine early on. No dice. (error -1701) Craig -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 1:37 pm Subject: Re: Send to program Not so fast

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread dunbarx
it get the associated data? end tell Craig -Original Message- From: Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 12:38 pm Subject: Re: Send to program Why have a few more replies to this topic appeared? Wasn't the link

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread dunbarx
, 2012 3:42 pm Subject: Re: Send to program Colin. I may be misreading the link, and possibly resisting having to deal with writing applescript scripts, but the article shows methods of doing such things as would be considered remote machine control: opening apps, going to sleep, changing

Re: Send to program

2012-09-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
I got pretty good at it, way back when developers who really believed in it made their documentation fairly usable. The trouble with Applescript is that you are entirely dependent on the really sparse, often wholly inadequate or incomplete app dictionaries (if there even is one), and on public

Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread dunbarx
, but want to do so now. But I am getting an error -1701 when I try something as simple as: send myMessage to program *:myOtherMac:LiveCode The message is just a test, and tells an open LC stack to put a random number into a field. myMessage is the name of a handler in the stack script. Something

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Colin Holgate
See if this article helps: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remotely-control-mac-simple-applescripts/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Something to do with the pathname? Such a message has no issue in HC (running OS9, of course) My guess is yes, that is an OS 9/HC pathname. LC uses / not : in it's pathnames. HTH ___

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Bonner
not correct. (this is with remote events and remote management turned on) Makes me wonder if some underlying service needs to be turned on for it to work, and if so the same thing would most likely apply to send to program. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
there. When I try to run my apps I get a message telling me that I need to install Rosetta (this is on SnoLeo) for the apps to work. AppleTalk was removed as of 10.6, maybe this is another reason you are having trouble. This might mean that 'send to program' might not be possible for you

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Bonner
I think if you ignore send to program and use applescript directly you can get things accomplished. If you decide to look in that direction, check out the (old) info here. http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/ascr006.htm Not sure it will solve the remote issues, but still worth

send to program problem

2011-04-28 Thread dunbarx
I still have a dozen OS9 macs running HC, working together all day with send to program chitChat. 20 years... From any HC machine, if I say: send beep 3 to program *:hcServer:hypercard, that machine beeps three times. If I try this from LC, (OSX 10.4) I get error -1701, likely some failed

Re: send to program problem

2011-04-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 28 apr 2011, at 23:42, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I still have a dozen OS9 macs running HC, working together all day with send to program chitChat. 20