Rick Harrison wrote: > Ok, so the server and my open LC stack are using > different engines or are different “instances”. If they > are on the same computer it seems to me that one > might be able to get the two to talk to each other > through the computer system’s clipboard in theory. > > I haven’t had much luck with getting the contents > of a variable into the clipboard on the server side > yet. It keeps throwing weird errors at me. > Can you think of an easy way to do that?
The clipboard is a good mechanism for an end-user to exchange data between GUI programs. For programs to exchange data between themselves without a GUI, you'll want to use sockets. This tutorial is the best entry-point for learning sockets I've found yet: <http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/12924-how-to-communicate-with-other-applications-using-sockets> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the 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