>From the command line if you do yourApp http://www.google.com
$1 will contain the url. Works the same from a bash script. #!/bin/bash path/to/yourApp $1 -- will call your app using parameter 1 as parameter 1 inside the app. -- Access it the same way within the app itself using $1 $1 is actually the 2nd parameter, $0 will contain the name of the app (or shell script depending) On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:54 AM, David Bovill <[email protected]>wrote: > Actually maybe it is not so hard :) I want to create a way to launch > LiveCode using shell, but also to pass to it a url in the first param of > the > shell command. As I don't think you can do this directly anymore using > shell > scritps written in LiveCode - I think I need to write a bash script and set > an environmental variable which I can then access using $ in Livecode? > > This is what I need to do: > > A shell command used to launch your preferred web browser when given a > URL as an argument. > > > > Defaults to "start" on windows, "open" on Mac, and "firefox" on Unix. > > > > Any thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > 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
