I really wish the copy to clipboard thing would have worked because it would have been a very simple solution for a personal application I wanted to work on for myself.
I will endeavor to learn about sockets etc. even though that is more of a learning curve here. I would rather have found something simple, but unfortunately the things one thinks should be simple usually turn out to be harder than imagined. Thank you Richard and Mike for pointing out the resources that I need to conquer! Rick > On Jan 22, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Rick Harrison wrote: > >> Ok, so the server and my open LC stack are using >> different engines or are different “instances”. If they >> are on the same computer it seems to me that one >> might be able to get the two to talk to each other >> through the computer system’s clipboard in theory. >> >> I haven’t had much luck with getting the contents >> of a variable into the clipboard on the server side >> yet. It keeps throwing weird errors at me. >> Can you think of an easy way to do that? > > The clipboard is a good mechanism for an end-user to exchange data > between GUI programs. > > For programs to exchange data between themselves without a GUI, you'll > want to use sockets. > > This tutorial is the best entry-point for learning sockets I've found yet: > > <http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/12924-how-to-communicate-with-other-applications-using-sockets> > > -- > 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
