Run Time Arguments

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 06:05 AM, Jez wrote:

> Can you pass run-time arguments to a revolution executable and pick 
> them up in code? I'm sure the answer must be yes but how?
>
Others best respond concerning AppleScript.

But I'll make a little comment concerning command-line args.

On Windows XP I have launched standalones from a command window.  The 
documentation describes the command line args as being in global 
variables $1, $2 and so on.

However, I find (with an exception) that they are all in $1.  (The 
exception occurs when an attempt is made to use quotation marks to 
quote the first arg.)  I consider this a bug.

On Windows you may want to limit yourself to one arg or be prepared to 
change the code in the future.  (If you know quotes won't be used, you 
can check the number of words in $1 and $2 and based on that split out 
your args.  This might lessen the impact should this get fixed.)

(Command line args look like they work right on 2.0 on OS X.)

Dar Scott