Unfortunately, I missed the Town Hall this morning - but I'm definitely interested in the answers to these questions. Will they be posted?
Thanks!! -randy At 05:21 PM 9/6/2004, Dioselin Gonzalez wrote: >Hello, I have a couple of questions about programming shared applications >I would like to discuss: > >1. GetApplicationID() in sharedApplicationClient: >This functions makes a call to its appProxy.GetId and passes an argument, >however the server returns an error because this function doesn't take an >argument. A comment in the file says: "Check GetState instead of GetId; >GetId exists on old servers but with no private id as argument". What >should developers do? > >2. sharedAppClient.GetData(): >This function reads data from the venue server and stores it in a local >cache. When reading from the cache, it doesn't check whether the data has >changed, and so it always returns the first value it ever gets. When a >client makes an update using SetData, other clients will still get the old >one. What should I use if my application has one client constantly >updating data and other clients need to read the latest value of this data? > >3. Shared applications need to maintain a lot of info about the session, >participants, application-specific data, etc. For the wish list, I would >like to have a more complex data store, something like a database server >that lets me execute queries :o) How can I approach this? > > >Thank you! > >Dioselin.- > >
