Hello Judy, I have used stacks delivered via the web to various students for more than a year, and I must admit that each time I'm looking at the downloading I still feel lucky to how discovered this genial solution and think you should go for it. In previous years when I saw descriptions of it I did not understand all the things which had to be done to implement it (perhaps it was me not being a native speaker, or perhaps the descriptions were to computerese for me as a former lecturer in Italian). I shall try to explain it in simple and plain words how it is done:
A link on an ordinary web page downloads a stack (which Troy Rollins calls a "stub" and Sivakatirswami earlier has called a portal stack, I tend to call it a particular kind of net browser). This stack has to be in standalone format for each platform. When compressed their size is 1.2 and 1.6 MB. This stack is to reside permanently on the student's harddisk. In the stack there are menus (in my case in the form of buttons) which, when clicked, download and open the various educational programs. These programs are read into memory and leaves no trace on the student's harddisk (not even in the cache folder as far as I know). The various educational programs are very easy to maintain: each time I make a change on whatever platform, I just upload the stack to the server (no need to make platform specific versions before uploading). See Richard Herz' excellent explanation and examples: http://mechanics.ucsd.edu/research/herz/web_24/. I have also made a stack to show uploading/downloading, compression, proxy handling etc.: http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/developerdownloads/usercontributions.html. It is called "Stacks Down - A Stack uploader & downloader". Please feel free to ask further questions. -- 1. amanuensis Signe Marie Sanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romansk Institutt tel: +47 55 58 21 27 Oysteins gt. 1 5007 Bergen http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/default.html Norway _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution