Okay, the Applescript intermediary sounds like it might work. I'll give that a go.
~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
