Opening a Rev app from a browser?

[Andre Garzia]

On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:21 AM, Doug Lerner wrote:

>> But if the scenario you want it to client click a link to an 
>> executable
>> program, and that program to be downloaded and run on client computer,
>> then it's very big risk.
>
> No -I wouldn't do that. This would be a trusted app that a user has
> previously, and intentionally, downloaded and set up.
>

Still trying... :D

what if you put your app on startup (user should be aware of that), 
your app could be launched on startup and sit invisible on the 
background waiting for the server, that's easy for windows and macos, 
on unixes there are some user priviledges stuff, but putting it on 
.profile might work I think. Your app could launch invisible waiting 
for server, if it does not clog the CPU and use Little memory, it can 
sit idle doing nothing but wait for a connection. Since we're talking 
about trusted apps, your users will not complain about this behaviour, 
they'll understant that's easier than launching client every time. You 
can make a mainStack with two substacks, one is the little invisible 
stack that will do nothing but wait mothership call, the other is the 
app itself that will load only when needed, if you make them as 
"standalone" rev files (.rev) then your app will use even less memory 
for it will only load the Real client when needed. On the startup it 
will just launch a minimalist app that will listem to server calls and 
launch client on request. This will get the behaviour you want, for all 
plataforms and yet is plain easy to do. Couple lines in Rev.

Cheers


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