On 20/12/2012, at 8:00 AM, JOHN PATTEN <johnpat...@me.com> wrote: > Monte & Mike… > > I like the idea of the teacher not having to share their IP by using the > mergeBonjour external. Lame question, but the mergeExternal would work on a > Windows desktop app too?
The external doesn't. I will probably do a desktop version one day but not yet. You can use the dns-sd command line app via shell or open process to register the service. > …I'm guessing the desktop app has to announce that it is available via > bonjour and this is done with the external? And then, the clients can report > out all available Bonjour connections, i.e. John Patten's MacBook, Other > Teacher's MacBook, etc. Student then just picks the correct teacher which > then gives the client the path to send data to the teacher's App (IP)…? Yes, that's how it works. > > Also Mike, can you elaborate on how I could use http between two LiveCode > stacks? Is this because HTTP is built into everything you essentially don't > need the http server part and http can be used (post & get) if you know the > address of the app you are trying to post or get from? > > For example, two stacks on the same LAN.. > > Sender stack would do something like a... > > post fld "student response" to URL > "127.0.0.1/user/johnpatten/Documents/TeacherServerApp.rev" cd fld "student > data" > > or if I was using mergeBonjour would it be something like… > > after sending call for apps broadcasting Bonjour, select and store the target > app (IP) in tTargetTeacher > > post fld "student response" to URL > tTargetTeacher/user/johnpatten/Documents/TeacherServerAPP.rev " cd vld > "student data" You would need a HTTP server library. There's a few around although I think it would be overkill for this use case unless you want to define an api that might be flexible between posting to the teacher's app and a server.... -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
