Stand alone via www-page? (OT)

[Gary Rathbone]

I've marked this Off Topic (OT) as it appears to be a web issue rather than
a revolution problem.

Thanks for the further explantion. I think what you're trying to do is
1. Click on a link on a web page
2. This launches a local application on the users machine

The main difficulty is that you can't specify a path name on the web page
link as there's no way of knowing where the application is on the clients
machine.

However, as you state its an intranet I assume you've more control over the
configuration than an internet scenario. I guess I'd approach it as
follows...

1. Use the link to download a dummy file with a unique file extension. This
could be an empty text document with an extention such as .esa (?)
2. When clicked the client machine probably wont know what to do with the
link (as it won't recognise a .esa file - unless there's an app out there
already that uses them ?)
3. Use Explorer 'File Helpers' to open your Rev app on receipt of a file
ending in .esa, then just don't process the dummy file.

This is like when you click on a .doc link it opens word, or a .pdf and it
open Acrobat Reader. The above is simplified for explanation. Further
details on how to do this can be found at
http://www.library.wisc.edu/help/tech/launch_info.html

Hope this helps.

Regards

Gary Rathbone

----- Original Message -----
From: "Esa Kivelä" <Esa.Kivela at ncrc.fi>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Cc: <gary.rathbone at btclick.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:27 AM
Subject: VS: Stand alone via www-page?




> -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
> Lähettäjä: Gary Rathbone [mailto:gary.rathbone at btclick.com]
> Lähetetty: 2. syyskuuta 2002 19:21
> Vastaanottaja: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Aihe: Re: Stand alone via www-page?
>
>
> What is it exactly you're trying to do ?
> 1. Do you want to use a web page to pass information to a
> Revolution stack,
> which sends a reply to appear in the browser window ? or
> 2. Do you want to distribute your Revolution stack via the
> web ? That is, a
> user goes to your web page, clicks on a link and the browser begins to
> download the Revolution stack ?

We have intranet where in the main page is the box called "Quick messages".
There users can sen messages like "hey all, coffee and my birthday cake is
served at 6th floor!" or " meeting begins at 10:00 am at there and
there...".

Top is that box is a link where users press when they like to make new
messages. When tehy have pressed it -> Revolution standalone called
"Pikaviestit.exe" (= finnish = Quick messages.exe) pops up -> users type
their messages and when usres press "Save message" button then messages
appear into that box at intras main www page.

Problem is that www-browser wants to donload it or run it at local. Is there
any possibilities avoid that?

EsaK
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