Thanks Richard. The code I'm using came from a note in the dictionary with a note that it came from Trevor Devore originally but it's dated 2009 so maybe Apple events have changed since then. I tried the double click with the application not running and with it running but did not seem to hot the on appleEvent handler
On Tue Feb 24 2015 at 10:56:47 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > There's a user note in the dictionary that says $1 does not contain > > the path to the double clicked file on OSX. Is that true? > > I believe so. OS X may be a certified Unix, but the Finder is off in a > world of its own. :) > > On Linux and Windows that still works, and on both you can quer $# to > obtain the number of params to see if more than one file was opened with > the app launch. > > On Mac Apple's method has been Apple events since the early '90s. > Anyone else here able to reproduce the issue Peter's seeing with aevt/oapp? > > Could this issue be that you're responding to the odoc event rather than > oapp? > > It's been so long since I wrote any code for that I can't recall, but > with oapp sent on launch, perhaps odoc only sent when a doc is > double-clicked any time after launch. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
