Maybe I'm missing what the original poster was asking for. But my approach would be to write a Director program that "talks" to some script(s) that live on a server (e.g., PHP scripts), and have the scripts talk to a database. All messages would then be stored in the database (or just as files on a server - simulating a database) on the server.
The Director program could make a postNetText request to a script asking for all articles (riddles) that are either new, or have had a new message added recently. The script would access the database and find all such articles and report their names back to the Director program. The Director program could then display the names of all such articles. The user might click on one, and the Director program could do another getNetText request to get the text of all articles in that thread. The script could request the text from the database and return it to the Director program. The Director program could then display it in a scrolling field. The Director program could have an area where a user could add a new message to the current thread, or start a new thread. This approach would not need to use any HTML at all.
There are many different ways to do the same thing.
Irv
PS: Thanks!
At 10:16 AM +0530 11/26/03, Pranav Negandhi wrote:
I dun get it Irv. Are you saying that an xtra that can embedd a webpage in Director will _still_ need to be programmed to send and retrieve messages from the server? What I was talking about was to embedd the HTML front ends into Director by using the xtra and letting the web pages communicate with the CGI scripts residing on the server. Dunno what you meant.
Pranav Negandhi concept-I www.cimultimedia.com
P.S. Loved LOOPE.
<and the scissor passed over their houses><sparing those marked with the blood of a lamb>The Director On Line User Group does just this in purely PHP using a browser as it's interface. http://www.director-online.com click on Forum.
However, if you want to do this with a Director program, then you have to have the Director program send messages to a server accessable somewhere on the net. The Director program would use net Lingo calls to either getNetText or postNetText to send and/or receive messages. But the target of those messages would have to be some CGI or "middleware" program that receives such messages, and makes calls to either a database, or reads and writes files on the server.
So, your list below is not a choose one of the 6, rather, some combination of them.
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