Had one more though in the same vein. I think Andre has a stack that is a basic http server. It would probably be easy to modify it so that the server itself could return your time/date info as well as any other system info you wanted to be able to get at remotely. And since it does its thing like a standard web server a simple get URL could do the job from your client app.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Gregory Lypny <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Mike and Stephen, > > I’ll give your suggestions a try. > > Gregory > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > > > The easiest way I can think of would be to have the web server running > and > > a page that returns the date and time. Alternatively you might be able > to > > turn on the ntp server for your mac and then talk to that. > > > > I'm sure there are other ways too, but these are off the top of my head > > real quick. > > And Stephen BarnCard wrote: > > > not too hard if you write a small app to live on the remote mac. Check > out > > "sockets" in the dictionary and download Chatrev to see how they're used. > > > > http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=chatrev > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Gregory Lypny > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> Is there a LiveCode handler that can be used to get the date and time > from > >> a remote Mac that has a static IP address? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Gregory > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
