Hi n.p.
you wrote:
>Now that you've got my wheels spinning, would it be possible to develop a
>real-time chat application in REBOL?
I just sent an email to the Ally list in the thread module that includes a
rudimentary chat-type server. With a few modifications, it should do
something like this.
To collect single characters from the console you can use something like
Cal Dixon's code for his rem editor (which I recommend, btw. A
well-designed and very useful and surprisingly stable beta version):
port: open/binary [ scheme: 'console ]
get-key: does [ wait port to-string copy/part port 1 ]
All you need to do is open an additional tcp port add code that inserts the
value returned by get-key into the tcp port. On the client side you open a
tcp port and use prin to output the character that was received on the tcp
input port.
Hope this helps,
;- Elan [ : - ) ]
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