CLI support in LC (was [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5)

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Nov 12 14:42:06 EST 2011


Mark Wieder wrote:

> Richard-
>
> Saturday, November 12, 2011, 6:46:18 AM, you wrote:
>
>> IIRC, -f was to prevent file access, yes?
>
> I'm probably misremembering the exact details - it's been a while now.
> It may even have just been redirection
>
> revolution < scriptFile
>
>> Is there a way that using secureMode might work for what you need?
>
> No, what we need there is a way to invoke the engine with a file
> argument. Something that says "load and run the following script".
> As a trivial example, a three-line script file "lastyear"
>
> put the files into tFiles
> filter tFiles with "*2010"
> put tFiles
>
> would give me all the files in the current directory that were created
> last year. And as a worst case example it could be invoked with
>
>> LiveCode -f lastyear
>
> even better if I specified a file mapping so that .rev files were
> launched by the LC engine so that I could just say
>
>> lastyear

Wouldn't you be able to get the params you need from a standalone?

I haven't used the runtime engine by itself in a very long time, but 
have had great success (and quite a bit of fun) adding CLI support to 
standalones.

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