On 8/23/2017 4:25 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: > Hi folks, I'm building a notification system....and I don't want to add > another DB query to the system....so my idea is to save notifications as a > file in a folder, and the just read and process "the files" .... > > so the name of the file would contain the notification data.... i wouldn't > have to read each file, just the list of files in the folder. > > hoping to save some network traffic that way. > > am I gonna regret this?...hit some kind of OS bottleneck?..... anybody have > any ideas why this would be a bad idea? > > we build for all 3 desktop platforms. > > Thanks for any thoughts. >
Are the notifications (i.e the file names) preset? Or user entered. If user entered, realize that there are issues with converting file names across platforms. Linux, OSX, and Window have different reserved characters and file name standards, as well as different support for Unicode or high-ASCII characters. If all you messages are basic ASCII characters and under about 250 characters in length, you should be fine. _______________________________________________ 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