/* Copyright (C) 2015-2016 LiveCode Ltd. This file is part of LiveCode. LiveCode is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. LiveCode is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with LiveCode. If not see . */ /** This library provides low-level system functionality for modular LiveCode programs. */ module com.livecode.system use com.livecode.foreign ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Platform identification ---------------------------------------------------------------- public foreign handler MCSystemExecGetOperatingSystem(out Platform as String) returns nothing binds to "" /** Summary: The operating system Example: if the operating system is "linux" then - Platform specific-code end if Description: Returns a string describing the operating system that LiveCode is running on. The possible values are: * "windows" - 32-bit and 64-bit Windows * "mac" - Desktop OS X * "ios" - iOS (iPhone and iPad) * "android" - Android Linux devices * "linux" - All other Linux platforms Tags: System */ syntax OperatingSystem is expression "the" "operating" "system" begin MCSystemExecGetOperatingSystem(output) end syntax public foreign handler MCSystemExecGetArchitecture(out Architecture as String) returns nothing binds to "" /** Summary: The architecture Example: if the architecture is "x86_64" then -- Do something x86_64 specific end if Description: Returns a string describing the instruction set architecture that is being used by the machine LiveCode is running on. The possible values are: * "x86" - 32-bit x86 builds * "x86_64" - 64-bit x86 builds * "arm" - 32-bit arm builds * "arm64" - 64-bit arm builds * "js" - Emscripten Tags: System */ syntax Architecture is expression "the" "architecture" begin MCSystemExecGetArchitecture(output) end syntax ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Exit / Quit ---------------------------------------------------------------- foreign handler __Exit(in ExitStatus as CInt) returns nothing binds to "exit" public handler MCSystemExecQuit() returns nothing unsafe __Exit(0) end unsafe end handler public handler MCSystemExecQuitWithStatus(in Status as Number) unsafe __Exit(Status) end unsafe end handler /** Summary: Quit the application Example: -- Quit, indicating that the application ran successfully (code 0) quit -- Quit, with a specific error code quit with status 42 Description: Exit the program immediately and unconditionally, returning a status number to the operating system. If no status is provided, the default value of 0 is used. Tags: System */ syntax QuitWithStatus is statement "quit" [ "with" "status" ] begin MCSystemExecQuit() MCSystemExecQuitWithStatus(Status) end syntax ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Command-line information ---------------------------------------------------------------- public foreign handler MCSystemExecGetCommandName (out CommandName as String) returns nothing binds to "" public foreign handler MCSystemExecGetCommandArguments (out CommandArguments as List) returns nothing binds to "" /** Summary: The command name Example: -- Program that only succeeds if it's run as the "true" -- command. variable tCommand as String put the command name into tCommand if tCommand ends with "true" then quit with status 0 else quit with status 1 end if Description: Evaluates to the name that was used to execute the program, possibly including path information. */ syntax CommandName is expression "the" "command" "name" begin MCSystemExecGetCommandName(output) end syntax /** Summary: The command arguments Example: -- Program that only succeeds if it's run as the "true" -- command. variable tCommand as String put the command name into tCommand if tCommand ends with "true" then quit with status 0 else quit with status 1 end if Description: Evaluates to a list of command-line arguments passed to the program. Some arguments may not be passed in if they are "used up" by the LiveCode run-time environment (for example, the LiveCode IDE will detect and "use" the `-mmap` argument). > **Note:** No filename conversion is performed on command line > arguments, so some processing may be required before using a command > line argument with any of the file handling syntax provided by the > `com.livecode.file` module. */ syntax CommandArguments is expression "the" "command" "arguments" begin MCSystemExecGetCommandArguments(output) end syntax ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- System error information ---------------------------------------------------------------- public foreign handler MCSErrorReset() returns nothing binds to "" public foreign handler MCSystemEvalErrorCode(out Code as UInt32) returns nothing binds to "" public foreign handler MCSystemEvalErrorDescription(out Description as String) returns nothing binds to "" /** Summary: Clear the system error code. Description: Reset the system error code to its platform-dependent default ("no error") value. Tags: System */ syntax ResetSystemError is statement "reset" "system" "error" begin MCSErrorReset() end syntax /** Summary: The system error code. Description: Evaluates to the current platform-dependent system error code. - On Windows, returns the result of `GetLastError()`. - On other platforms, returns the current value of `errno`. > **Note:** The system error code may be modified or cleared by any > syntax that interacts with the operating system (e.g. by performing > input or output). You should check the system error code as soon as > possible after any platform operation that might fail. Related: SystemErrorDescription Tags: System */ syntax SystemErrorCode is expression "the" "system" "error" "code" begin MCSystemEvalErrorCode(output) end syntax /** Summary: The system error description. Description: Evaluates to a string describing the current platform-dependent system error code. > **Note:** The system error code may be modified or cleared by any > syntax that interacts with the operating system (e.g. by performing > input or output). You should check the system error code as soon as > possible after any platform operation that might fail. Related: SystemErrorCode Tags: System */ syntax SystemErrorDescription is expression "the" "system" "error" "message" begin MCSystemEvalErrorDescription(output) end syntax -- end module