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From: milikich@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Mike Milikich, Allen-Bradley Company)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Passing params from HyperCard
Message-ID: <1153.2701d4dd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 15:30:51 GMT
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I have a question about passing parameters to C programs on the Mac. What I
would like to do is mimic the standard main (int argc, char *argv[]) interface,
or write some mechanism which allows parameters to be passed to a standalone
application from HyperCard.
The situation is this : in a HyperCard stack interface to a database, a bunch
of parameters get accumulated which are meant for a query application. Right
now, even though HyperCard knows all of the parameters the report generator
application needs, there isn't a way to pass the data to it. So the program
runs through a series of dialogs, asking the user for information that has
either already been entered (in HyperCard) or is known internally to HyperCard
and really shouldn't need to be re-entered. The application is > 32K (I think),
so converting it to an XCMD/XFCN is out (or is it?). The idea of temporary
files of any sort seems kludgy to me. Any suggestions?

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