MacIvory RPC

[peter@skywalker.ENTERPRISE.dialnet.symbolics.com (Peter Magee)]

    Date: Thu, 17 May 90 10:54 EDT
    From: Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>

	Date: Mon, 14 May 90 16:14-0000
	From: peter@skywalker.ENTERPRISE.dialnet.symbolics.com (Peter Magee)


	We have a MacIvory here and we want to talk between it and HyperCard.
	The demo system shows me how to call intiate transactions from HyperCard
	but I want to be able to initiate a transaction from Lisp.  Is there a
	simple way of doing this. I want to do as little C programming as
	possible.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

	PTMagee

    I think you would have to call the Macintosh routine "Launch" to start
    up the HyperCard application.  When you launch an application you can
    tell it what file to operate on (this is what the Finder does when you
    open a document rather than opening the application), so you should
    specify the stack that implements the communication with Lisp.  This
    assumes that your goal is to have Lisp query Hypercard for something.
    If your goal is just to put the user into an interactive Hypercard
    session then you can just launch Hypercard with no document file and it
    will go to the default home stack.

						    barmar

As Launch can only be called from Assembly language I assume the
worst - I have to get my hands dirty in some non-lisp hacking.  I assume
that the disclaimer in the Symbolics example that it was only supposed
to point the way means that I cannot hope to use it to do what I want.
Ok - Thats life in the big city.

Thanks

PTMagee