put $LOGNAME into field "Login Name"
if $0 is not myAppName then answer "Problem initializing!"
Use the $ keyword to interact with the system environment and to find out what arguments were used if the application was started up from the command line.
Comments:
The $ character marks two kinds of special variables: command-line arguments (on OS X, Unix, and Windows systems) and environment variables (on OS X and Unix systems).
If you start up the application from the command line (on OS X, Unix or Windows systems), the command name is stored in the global variable $0 and any arguments passed on the command line are stored in numbered variables starting with the $ character. For example, if you start the application by typing the following shell command:
myrevapp -h name
then the global variable $0 contains "myrevapp" (the name of the application), $1 contains "-h", and $2 contains "name".
If an argument includes spaces, it must be enclosed in quotes on the command line:
myrevapp -in "new info.txt" -out "new info.xml"
Gotcha: On Windows XP systems, individual arguments passed on the command line are placed in separate variables ($1, $2, and so on) only if they are quoted on the command line. Otherwise, all arguments are placed in the $1 variable.
On Unix and OS X systems, a variable whose name begins with the $ character is exported to the application's environment, and is inherited by processes started up by the shell function or the open process command. Use this technique to create your own environment variables.
You can access existing environment variables by prepending the $ character to the environment variable's name. For example, the following statement gets the contents of the LOGNAME environment variable:
get $LOGNAME
on appleEvent pClass, pID, pSender
if pClass is "aevt" and pID is "odoc" then
request appleEvent data
put it into theFiles ## files OS is requesting your application opens, one per line
if theFiles is not "not found" and theFiles is not empty then
## code to open theFiles
end if
else
pass appleEvent
end if
end appleEvent
(Trevor DeVore originally posted a similar solution on the use-rev list which is where I got this information. Thanks Trevor.)
