I have a question regarding this, if one were to copy the script as you explained, and instead of placing it in a stack could one paste it into an .irev file and use it as an include with revserver scripts?
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:03 PM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/28/10 2:08 PM, Bill Andersen wrote: > > I've used PHP to do 'shell utilities', I sure wish Rev could act >> similar. How nice would it be to just have one language/syntax for >> the bulk of your code. >> > > You can insert libURL (or any other script) into the message path so that > commands to the library will work with your CGI script. It takes a little > bit of set up. > > First, in the View menu in the IDE, choose to show "LiveCode UI Elements in > lists". Then open the Application Browser and all the IDE stacks will > appear. Scroll to the "revLibrary" stack in the left-hand list, expand it, > click on its single card, and in the right side panel find the button > "revLibURL'. Right-click to edit its script, then copy it. > > Paste the script into the stack script of a new mainstack (for this way of > doing it, it has to be the stack script.) Save the stack as "revLibURL" or > similar. Upload the stack to your CGI folder on the server and set its > permissions to 755. > > In your CGI script, put this near the beginning after the "on startup" > line: > > start using stack "revLibURL" > > That will make the libURL script available to your CGI. After that you > should be able to use libURL handlers as you do in the IDE. (In theory; > haven't actually tried it. But that's how you create pseudo-includes.) > > The libURL library is updated frequently, so you'll have to repeat this > process every time a new version of LiveCode is released if you want to stay > current. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
