What is Macintosh equivalent of relaunch handler?

[Bill Vlahos]

Richard,

GetOpt looks exactly like what I want.

The docs specify on startup is only sent when the application is opened. This won’t work for me as I want to catch command line parameters ongoing while my application stays open.

What would the syntax be if I want to catch 3 items some of which could contain multiple words with a space between them?

Thank you,
Bill



> On Mar 28, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill Vlahos wrote:
> 
> > I want my application to be able to catch parameters sent to it via
> > the command line.
> 
> Ah, much simpler problem.
> 
> macOS is a certified Unix.  It works just like Linux.
> 
> On startup, you can check $# for the number of args passed in the command line, or $1, $2, etc. to get the value of any one of them.
> 
> If you need really sophisticated command-line argument handling, check out the getOpt function Peter Brett added for that:
> 
> https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/Getopt <https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/Getopt>
> 
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