Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2017-12-18 20:01, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> In principle, the same code should work equally great under OSX, but it
> does not. And yes, if (and when) I have time, i will track down the 
> bugs
> and report them, but at the moment I was hoping for a quick fix where
> someone else already on the list may have identified the OSX
> idiosyncrasies and had sample code that worked around them :-)

Hmmm - I have quite a long memory but it doesn't quite stretch as far 
back as 4.6.4 these days so I can' say what might have changed on the 
process related commands in versions since then.

I do know that there *were* significant bugs in process communication on 
OS X for quite some time after I started working at LiveCode (well, 
RunRev back then) - which gradually got fixed. I'm pretty sure that the 
most recent versions (certainly since 6.x) should be working correctly 
(- but I can't really say much about versions before then.

So I suspect the issues might be to do with the 4.6.4 side - rather than 
the version on the other side (presumably 6.7.11?).

In terms of the changes to field indicies - 6.x still uses the same 
unicode flag for style runs in the field that 4.6.4 uses - the data 
inside the engine is the same, but the char indicies are not.

I'm pretty sure it would be possible to write a handler which takes the 
styledText array of a field in 6.7.11 and a list of old indicies, 
returning a list of new char indicies... Would that help?

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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