Agreed, I was just thinking the same thing. Is that your App Engine app? (Will it remain up as a reliable service?)
Thanks for sharing the code! On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, eyalzh <[email protected]> wrote: > The way I see it, to overcome the differences between local clocks you must > use a robot or a web service that will tell you the time. > The gadget will make a request to that service whenever it is rendered by a > client. Thereafter it will just tick using javascript. > > Here is an example of such a service: > http://everybodywave.appspot.com/whatisthetime.py > > Javascript code that can sample it within a gadget: > > var sharedTime = null; > > var timeServerUrl = > 'http://everybodywave.appspot.com/whatisthetime.py?ts='+new > Date().getTime(); > var params = {}; > params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = > gadgets.io.ContentType.TEXT; > gadgets.io.makeRequest(timeServerUrl, onTimeServerAnswer, params); > > function onTimeServerAnswer(answer) { > sharedTime = parseInt(answer.text); > startToTick(); > } > > The use of the parameter "ts" in the query string of the request is needed > in order to disable the cache of makeRequest(). You can use a random number > just the same. > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:38 AM, qMax <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [sorry for fingeroughness] >> >> i'ts quite reasonable to make installer gadget instance to alarm >> robot, >> in hope that installer/moderator will not close the wave or >> disconnected beforehand. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Wave API" 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/google-wave-api?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" 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/google-wave-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" 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/google-wave-api?hl=en.
