Good point Richard. I never thought of it like that. Hmmm, I'll have to look into that. How I'm doing it now is how you've described it but I was asked if I could come up with a way to do this without adding any new files to disk on the fly and not need admin rights to facilitate this. It was written as a c program for the raw performance boost otherwise doing it all in LiveCode is a perfect option. I know we can use in memory SQLlite dB's and some other things but I imagine runrev had to do some work on the backside to make that happen. Anyhow, ill keep exploring my alternatives. Thanks for the suggestions.
Andrew On May 3, 2014 9:46 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Andrew Kluthe wrote: > > > I have the need to run a command line utility from LiveCode without > > writing it to disk. Ideally I would like to store it in a custom > > property and find a way to run it in memory without ever writing it > > to a disk. Is this at all possible using only LiveCode? > > If I understand this correctly, it's not LiveCode that'll be running the > program, but Windows; LiveCode is simply initiating the execution. > > Can Windows run programs that exist only in the memory space of another > application? > > I don't know the answer to that, but kinda I hope not, since intuitively > it seems like a potential security hole. > > Can you write the program file to temp and launch it from there? > > Or rewrite its functionality in script? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web > ____________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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