Thank you so much. I will try this and let you know how it works out... Bill
On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:03 PM, J. Landman Gay 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
