Dear LiveCode Gurus, Looking at the following blog post, it looks like LiveCode could be a great tool for producing more easily understandable and maintainable command-line tools:
http://livecode.com/blog/2014/03/06/livecode-server/ Prompted by that, I am trying to create a LiveCode shell script, which will be run under the commercial version of LiveCode server, 6.6.1. My script will need to respond to several commands - ie., ‘help’ - by outputting several lines of information to the Terminal. I am finding, however, that Server is choking if I create text programatically that contains a ‘return’ character. Example: — #! path/to/livecode/server put “Hello World!” & return & “Hello Galaxy!” — Seems to output *only* “Hello Galaxy!”. It’s as if the terminal is ignoring the previous line, and outputting only the last. Doing the following yields the same result: — #! path/to/livecode/server put “Hello World!” put return put “Hello Galaxy!” — I *can* get the Server to output several lines if I get it to *parse a text file* directly to the Terminal. For instance: if I put the following text in a plain-text file…: — Hello World! Hello Galaxy! — …and call this file “plaintext.lc”, and then get the server to parse it to the Terminal, by using…: — $: /path/to/livecode/server plaintext.lc — Then I *do* get both lines of text. I then tried to build a test script that just outputs the result of one of the built-in functions that return multiple lines - such as: — #! path/to/livecode/server put the folders — This seem to produce garbled output to the Terminal - it actually looks as if the lines of the result were all overwritten on top of each other. >From the blog posting above, it clearly looks as if I should be able to do >this rather simple task, but I’m stumped. I’m starting to think that maybe >6.6.1 is not the version that was used in the sample script shown in the blog >- perhaps a developer preview of 7.0, which handles unicode differently, is >being used, and this could account for the difference in behaviour. In any >case, from my end it seems to be impossible for me to write a script like the >one being shown. Is this perhaps something stupid I’m doing at my end? Or is it really a 6.6.1->7.0 issue? Any guidance would be much appreciated. Kindest regards to all, -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
