Running an LC app from the command line

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed Jun 4 19:35:02 EDT 2014


Just to be safe, I always set the loc of the stack offscreen.


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I would like to run an existing lc standalone from the command line,
> passing it parameters that will determine what it should do.
>
> Searched the list archives and found that I can reference $1, $2, etc to
> get the parameters and that works just fine.
>
> I would also like the app to not display its main stack when it is run with
> parameters.  I saw some posts on the list archives that mentioned the -ui
> flag to achieve this but when I tried that, I got an error "exiting on
> signal 10".  I'm guessing I can simply hide the mainstack to achieve this
> but wondered if there is any other way to do it.
>
> The above was all on a Mac but I'll need it to run on Windows as well.
>
>
> Pete
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