Hi Chris, Don't believe everything that's written. I can imagine that some command line apps don't work well with the open process command, but quite a few work fine. I did a tutorial for the LiveCode.tv event, showing how to use open process to write to and read from telnet. Closing the process was a bit of a hassle, but telnet itself works fine as a process.
If everything fails, you can write a shell script and run that from AppleScript or tell the Finder to run the AppleScript app that starts the shell script etc... There are quite a few workarounds available in Mac OS X. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeErrors for iPhone now http://qery.us/v4 A must-have for LiveCode programmers. On 23 aug 2011, at 23:01, Nonsanity wrote: > As per the Dictionary (and my own testing): > > Note: On OS X systems, you can use the open process command to start up an > application, but not a Unix process. To work with a Unix process, use the > shell func instead. > > And it's unix processes that I need to start, not apps. :( > > ~ Chris Innanen > ~ Nonsanity _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
