Josh, be aware that ping outputs differently for each OS.... Mac OS X is different than Windows Ping and so on... you might need some clever string handling there.
andre On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Josh Mellicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: >> >> To feel safe, I'd want to do the network check in a separate process, and >> have a fail-safe mechanism within the real app (i.e. it detects failure >> rather than waiting for it). So I'd use a backgrounded shell command which >> creates a temp file, and have the real app check for that file being >> created/updated. Could be a ping shell command, or a small standalone which >> loads a url, or anything similar - as long as it's a separate process. >> > -- Alex. > > > > We are finally testing this. > > Could I ask a favor? > > Would someone who is behind a proxy server or corporate firewall test this > code: > > on mouseUp > put "ping -c 1 google.com" into tCmd > open process tCmd FOR update > wait 1 second with messages > read from process tCmd until empty > put it > close process tCmd > end mouseUp > > ? > > > The question is: > > Will this code return a valid IP (in "it") even when normal Revolution ftp > commands will not work? > > I am hoping the answer is "NO". > > If this works, it may mean, for the first time I'm aware of, we all have a > way for checking if connected that will NEVER hang Revolution! Yipeee! > > > Thanks! > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ 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
