Richard: This sounds very attractive. I hadn’t thought of just opening the app directly from the server and running it in memory. Thanks for the encouragement. I think it’s a good idea. Best, Bill > On Feb 8, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > > Richard: > > Whoops, I see you said the downloads were erased at the end of each > > session. > > Where do you put the executables? On the Mac, in the Applications > > folder there would have to be the admin permissions given. > > The Documents folder? The Application Support folder inside the > > user’s Library folder? Or…. > > Just as a browser is needed to download HTML, there needs to be some app on > the client machine to download the stacks. It can be in the Applications > folder, or wherever else the user wants. > > This app can be very slender script-wise, needing only enough code to > download the first stack from the server. In most cases it's very rare that > it needs to be updated. Just pick a recent LiveCode version that does what > you need, and you may go years without having to update that client app. > > So for the stacks that get downloaded, you may never need to save them > locally at all. That's up to you. If they're particularly large you might > set their filename to a path in App Support and issue a save command, but if > they're small enough to transfer quickly you can just use them in memory > during the session and let them go away when the app quits, knowing you'll > get fresh copies from the server next time you launch. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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