Running an app without human intervention (no buttons)

[horacapp]

Hi
How can i run an app without human intervention (no buttons)?
After compilation, when I double click the app, the app start, run and finish without pressing any button.
Thank you

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Make a new stack. Save it. In the card script:

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on opencard
   repeat with y = 1 to 10
      revSpeak y
      wait 60
   end repeat
end opencard

Now close the stack and reopen it.

Craig Newman

[Mikey]

Also, you can set the loc of the stack to be somewhere off-screen. There are some other tricks, as well, but start with these two.

[dunbarx]

Mike.

I see what you are getting at, but I think the OP wanted an automatically initialized and running stack that required no user action, not a stack that simply was never seen.

But we might need to hear back to really know...

Craig

[Mikey]

Yes, I get that. I was just trying to answer the next question, before it might be asked. The one after that, I expect, would be how to have the app run completely facelessly, but I figured I would leave that for someone else to jump for. Besides, I didn't want to start the debate over why you didn't suggest on startup or on openStack or on preopenstack etc., or worse, why you used on instead of command.

(ducks)

[dunbarx]

Fires low to catch ducking LC'er.

I am old-fashioned, and use "on" everywhere. Just a habit. I suppose for readability and communal commonality I ought to change.

But know that system messages (like the three you mentioned) all generally should use "on", and only custom ones use "command". I did suggest "openCard", after all.

The ones you mentioned would work as well, and if you wanted to both hide and set the loc offscreen, "preOpenStack" would have been better. But remember, I was not hiding anything.

Craig

[FourthWorld]

FWIW LC apps can be launched from the command line by adding a -ui flag.

[richmond62]

Why does "Running an app without human intervention" make me
start thinking about computer viruses?

[Mikey]

no idea, but I have several daemons that I run on various machines that are written in LC, and given that on at least two of those machines, I have to fight with Norton with each new version, I would say that the malware checkers are on to us...