Hi,
thanks for this interesting feedback on APE!
I tried to write a sample demo that explains more the basics of
exchanging data between client and server and how to write a simple
server module. You can find it here :
http://www.ape-project.org/wiki/index.php/Tutorial:Color_changer
English is not my mother tongue so sorry for any english mistake ;)
Let me know if this helped you, and how we can improve it.
Regards.
On 09/05/2010 23:40, Jaimz wrote:
Hi guys.
I've been looking at APE alot the past few days because it's a perfect
fit for a project I'm about to start (tomorrow)
The process I'm going to be using APE for is basically a clock that
will push out the updated time (sometimes a little bit of other data)
every second.
I'm a little confused as to how to do this. Maybe I'm dumb, but the
docs doesn't seem to have an actual tutorial on how to do anything as
far as actually writing a program with APE. There is the hello world
tutorial which kind of explains the process of making a client. Then
there's also the "How to write a server module" but it really doesn't
tell you HOW to do it, rather it seams to just list off all the
commands available to the server side modules, with a completely
uncommented example (which is quite intimidating)
I'm kind of fuzzy still about how the whole think works in the first
place.
How do I actually send data to a client? How do I actually send data
to the server? Is there something i'm missing?
for instance something nice to have would be:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- here's how you do 'something'
-- server module (/var/ape/<something>/<file.js>)
function someFunc(arg1,arg2,agr3) {
return [{'data':'this function just did something with '+arg1+'
and '+arg2+' and '+agr3+'!'}];
}
-- client (<webroot>/ape-jsf/<file.js>)
var client = new APE.Client();
client.load();
client.addEvent('load',function(){
console.log('now loaded');
data.cmd = 'someFunc';
data.arg1 = '1';
data.arg2 = '2';
data.arg3 = '3';
client.core.send(data);
});
client.onRaw(function(response){
console.log(data);
});
-- output (in firebug you'll see:)
now loaded
this function just did something with 1 and 2 and 3!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Furthermore, how do I even access the server module once i've created
it? add the JS file to the main.ape.js?
I can't even really find a spot in the docs that explain / lists what
functions are available when and where from.
I'm used to the way PHP, Prototype.js and Adobe Flex's docs work. the
APE docs seem to be extremely foreign to me for whatever reason.
Can anyone help me out by explaining a little more clearly, or
pointing me to a good catch all tutorial like this?
Thanks a bunch
-James
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