Joel : Please read the google FAQ and remove yourself from the mailing. We can't help you on how to use Internet.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:32:45 -0600, Joel Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > PLEASE STOP EMAILING ME > > On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:59 PM, janna wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> First, I am very much a newbie so please bear with me. >> >> Over the last number of weeks, I have been pleased with how far I have >> been able to get with APE, from successfully getting all of the demos >> to work all the way up to installing the latest Git versions. Much of >> it has been trial and error and I have found this group, the >> documentation and wiki on http://www.ape-project.org/ and other >> information I have been able to source on the web invaluable. It has >> allowed me to begin to successfully adapt the Chat demo for one of our >> needs, by slowly but surely gathering bits and pieces of information >> from examples rather than totally understanding all the aspects of >> javascript (which I surely don't yet). >> >> However, over the last number of days I have been absolutely stumped >> at understanding how to make use of sockets to get data from an >> external source up to the browser while also supporting commands going >> back the other way. >> >> I was able to find this post from Anthony which was great as it >> provided a detailed explanation >> as to how to implement a connection between the APE server and the >> outside world, (without any assumptions that the reader will know how >> to fill in the blanks--or even know that there are blanks in the >> explanation that might need to be filled in!). It works perfectly for >> our needs and I am just trying to build on it: >> >>>> On Feb 8, 5:59 pm, Anthony Catel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> In fact, you can do this without any PHP code, just by using linux >>>>> tools : >> >>>>> First : >> >>>>> - write a simple server-side JS script to bind APE on a special >>>>> socket : >> >>>>> Ape.addEvent("init", function() { >>>>> var socket = new Ape.sockServer(6971, "127.0.0.1"); >>>>> socket.onRead = function(client, data) { >>>>> Ape.log(data); >>>>> } >> >>>>> }); >> >>>>> - run this command line : >> >>>>> $ tail -f your_file | netcat 127.0.0.1 6971 >> >>>>> This way, every file changes on "your_file" are reported to APE via >>>>> the >>>>> socket. >> >>>>> Anthony >> >> To take this data and push it to the client's browser, I have tried to >> adapt and use proxy.js, I have read over and over again the various >> explanations on the APE website that list sockClient and sockServer >> and the callbacks and functions that relate to them and I've lost a >> lot of hair over the last while as absolutely nothing has worked for >> me. I am getting used to firebug error messages and "BAD PARAMS" and >> am not sure whether I am "this close" to getting it or whether I have >> gone down yet another one of the dozen forks in the road that end up >> being dead ends. >> >> So, would someone be so kind (please!) as to lay out the actual script >> that I would need to: >> >> 1) push data that is being received from the external source (via >> Anthony's example) to all users' browsers >> 2) send commands/data from the browser to that same socket so that it >> can then be routed out to the external source >> >> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out. I am excited as to >> the potential of APE and yet I just can't get this part working. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "APE Project" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/ape-project?hl=en >> --- >> APE Project (Ajax Push Engine) >> Official website : http://www.ape-project.org/ >> Git Hub : http://github.com/APE-Project/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APE Project" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ape-project?hl=en --- APE Project (Ajax Push Engine) Official website : http://www.ape-project.org/ Git Hub : http://github.com/APE-Project/
