"Bug" in the documentation, or the implementation?
Any workaround to determine if launched facelessly? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv Björnke von Gierke wrote:
bug On 13 Jun 2011, at 14:41, Richard Gaskin wrote:As Todd Geist quoted here earlier, in the Dictionary entry for "$" it says: If you start up the application from the command line (on OS X, Unix or Windows systems), the command name is stored in the global variable $0 and any arguments passed on the command line are stored in numbered variables starting with the $ character. For example, if you start the application by typing the following shell command: myrevapp -h name then the global variable $0 contains "myrevapp" (the name of the application), $1 contains "-h", and $2 contains "name". In my tests here, it seems this is only partially correct: $0 contains the app name from the command line ("myrevapp" in their example), but $1 contains the "name" portion after the "-h" option flag, and the flag itself does not appear in any $ variable. I have an app in which I'd like to have two different behaviors, depending on whether it's being run from the command-line or as a GUI. This would be easy if the engine worked as described in the Dictionary so I could easily detect if the user launched it with "-ui", but it seems the option flags are not being passed to the application, though everything that doesn't begin with "-" is. So my question is two-fold: 1. I've tested this on Windows and Linux and get identical behavior, in which the "-" flags aren't present in the "$" vars. Can anyone here confirm this on Linux, Win, or OS X? 2. If this is indeed a documentation bug and what I see in my tests is what happens for everyone, how can I determine whether the app was launched with "-ui" or not? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv
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