What is Macintosh equivalent of relaunch handler?

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Fri Mar 29 13:52:33 EDT 2019


Or another approach might be to open the invisible app as a process in 
the UI app.

On 3/29/19 10:50 AM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> It sounds like this is your scenario:
> You have an app with UI that is running, and you want it to 
> occasionally send/receive info to/from another invisible 'helper' app. 
> Is that correct?
>
> If so, can you use sockets in your environment? That would be a simple 
> way to get the interaction you want between the 2 apps.
>
> Or maybe I misunderstand your scenario.
>
> Best -
> Phil
>
>
> On 3/29/19 10:41 AM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode wrote:
>> Doing this on startup works perfectly but I don’t see how my app can 
>> get notification any other way while it is running.
>>
>> I’ve tried openCard, preOpenCard, openStack, preOpenStack, and 
>> resumeStack but no luck.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 29, 2019, at 12:14 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> To get the args, just know that any word is an arg, and a quoted 
>>> string counts as one word, so this:
>>>
>>> on startup
>>>    put $1 &cr& $2 &cr& $3
>>> end startup
>>>
>>> ...when call from:
>>>
>>>   ./myapp ThisIsArg1 "And this is a multi-word arg" "this,is,delimited"
>>>
>>> ...would give you:
>>>
>>>    ThisIsArg1
>>>    "And this is a multi-word arg"
>>>    "this,is,delimited"
>>>
>>>  From there you can parse to your heart's delight.
>>>
>>> That is, once we figure out how your app will get notification...
>>
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