What is Macintosh equivalent of relaunch handler?

[Bill Vlahos]

Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

I want my application to be able to catch parameters sent to it via the command line.

The relaunch handler does that for Windows applications and also doesn’t open another instance of the application. You are correct that Mac apps run in a single instance by default and that is the behavior I want.

I don’t want to open a document…I want to do something with the command line parameters sent to my app.

Bill

> On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:01 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill Vlahos wrote:
> 
> > I want to receive command line parameters in my application.
> >
> > The relaunch pCommandLineArguments works perfectly in Windows apps.
> >
> > What is the equivalent handler for MacOS X apps?
> 
> There's no direct equivalent because Mac apps run in a single instance by default.
> 
> If you want to open a document use this:
> 
> on appleEvent theClass,theID
>   if theClass is "aevt" and theID is "odoc" then
>      request appleEvent data
>      put it into theFiles
>      if theFiles is not "not found" and theFiles is not empty then
>         ## code to open theFiles
>      end if
>   else
>      pass appleEvent
>   end if
> end appleEvent
> 
> 
> If you want to emulate the Windows experience by having an app run in a separate process each time it's opened, there's a command line option for that (I can't recall what it is, but last time I looked it up it did take long).
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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