Socket Tutorial Guidelines [was: thank you notes]

[Richard Gaskin]

Bill Vlahos wrote:

> I think you are correct to use socket communication for your
> application because you are writing both the client and server.
> 
> Apple Events offers benefits only supported on Macintosh computers to
> take advantage of AppleScript dictionaries. There is nothing like
> AppleScript for any other platform. AppleScript is terrific but it is
> not cross-platform.

AppleScript is also useful, of course, for communicating with other
(non-Rev-based) apps.

But as for dictionaries, we could easily include custom properties to serve
the same need, with a function callable over sockets to access it.

If there's a need for interoperability between Rev-based apps from different
authors, we could define a standard for the function name, something like
SocketDictionary().

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