Re: Repeat Process To Check Contents of File on HTTP Server?

2009-05-11 Thread Phil Davis
Hi John, I'm assuming the following things are true: * everyone is using Windows, or at least all the kids * all the computers have access to the same shared hard disk, whether it's a file server or one person's computer. * there's a 'GoodLinks' folder on the shared disk where

Re: Repeat Process To Check Contents of File on HTTP Server?

2009-05-08 Thread John Patten
Thanks Phil and Bjoernke! That's what I needed...send command. Seems so obvious when you see someone else explain it :-) Now, that I understand send, here's my dilemma. What I'm trying to create is a little app that allows a teacher in the classroom to push out a web site they have

Re: Repeat Process To Check Contents of File on HTTP Server?

2009-05-07 Thread Phil Davis
John Patten wrote: Hi All! I'm making a little web browser client that needs to check the contents of a file on a web server. It needs to be able to do this every 5 seconds or so in the background, and then if the contents changes in the last line of the file it is checking, it starts

Re: Repeat Process To Check Contents of File on HTTP Server?

2009-05-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I suggest to use the put command with the url keyword, using a send in time structure: on mouseUp checkWebsite end mouseUp on checkWebsite thePrev put line -1 of url http://yoursite.com/yourfile; into theCurrent if thePrev theCurrent then --do your stuff here, it changed! end if

Repeat Process To Check Contents of File on HTTP Server?

2009-05-06 Thread John Patten
Hi All! I'm making a little web browser client that needs to check the contents of a file on a web server. It needs to be able to do this every 5 seconds or so in the background, and then if the contents changes in the last line of the file it is checking, it starts another process in