lc shell and command line

[Mike Bonner]

set the hideconsolewindows to true
will do what you wish.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Brozycki <johnb at hvc.rr.com> wrote:

> Regarding shell commands and LiveCode....
>
> I've noticed that under OS X, invocation of a shell command is silent.
>  But under Windows, you see a CMD window quickly pop up and disappear.  I
> haven't found any options to prevent the shell command popping up under
> Windows, but wondered if anyone knew of a way to prevent it from happening.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble with the livecode shell and cd command also.
> >
> > pwd in a terminal does:
> >
> >    :~/  runrev 4.5/livecode-4.5.2$
> >
> > cd ..
> >
> >    :~/  runrev 4.5$
> >
> > pwd
> >
> >    runrev 4.5$
> >
> > If you do the exact same things using put shell("...."), this doesn't
> work.
> > In particular,
> >
> >    put shell("pwd")
> >
> > does indeed return the working directory, but
> >
> >    put shell("cd ..")
> >
> > does not work at all.   Why not? Probably an obvious reason - is it
> > something to do with escaping characters?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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