Rev and Flamethrower

[Kevin Miller]

On 2/4/02 12:00 pm, Richard D. Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:

> I suppose I've worked with Rev enough now to say I prefer it over Supercard
> (even though Supercard is a very good product). Now if there was just some
> way to combine Rev with Flamethrower, that would produce an incredible web
> CGI development environment.
> 
> I know Rev has CGI commands, but they seem far more complex (and weaker)
> than the commands available through Flame. It's still not clear to me if Rev
> can be configured to receive messages back from a clients browser, anywhere,
> anytime...without having first initiated the call. Feedback on this would be
> helpful. I'd be working on a Mac through WebStar.
> 
> Is there any way to use the XCMD's from Flame in Rev? Any plans from the Rev
> people to expand Rev to become more like Flame?

If you have any specific feature requests, please feel free to send them in.
However I'm not aware off-hand of anything that Flame can do that Revolution
can't, and Revolution can do it both using the AppleEvents methods of the
Mac and facelessly on a UNIX server.  What is still lacking in this area is
some documentation...

Kevin

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