After going all round the houses on this one, using files is exactly how the Scripter's Scrapbook IAC API works, with the benefit of being a cross platform solution as well. /H
Dave wrote: > I have an application that periodically creates or updates an SQLite > database (actually there are lots of databases (separate SQLite > files), but only one is worked on at a time) and then sends the > results to the server. This process can take upwards of 15 minutes to > complete. In the meantime I want to be able to still use the > application to do other things (such as create playlists in iTunes). Richard Gaskin wrote: I'd use sockets, or polling for a file. While polling a file's content can eat some cycles, polling for the existence of a file is pretty darn fast. Given the scenario you describe, where you're not really expecting a result for several minutes, you could probably get away with polling for a file every few seconds. Cheap, simple, reasonably efficient. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
