networking tutorial ?

[Phil Davis]

Hi Marty,

Maybe it's understood as a given, but no one has mentioned studying what 
the docs say about sockets. Sockets are basic to communication between 
Rev stacks/apps running on different machines. Please pardon if this is 
all old news... but for the sake of newbies who may not be aware, I 
continue. You can learn about Rev's networking support by reading what 
the docs say about:

COMMANDS:
   open socket (note the 'with message' option on all of these)
   read from socket
   write to socket
   close socket

MESSAGES:
   socketClosed
   socketTimeout
   socketError

FUNCTIONS:
   openSockets

PROPERTIES:
   socketTimeoutInterval

I think the docs are always a good place to start.

Thanks -
Phil Davis


Marty Billingsley wrote:
> Hi all --
> 
> Sorry about a repeat query -- I'm sure this has come up before, but you
> know how it is: you skim over messages on the list that don't pertain to
> what you're currently working on.
> 
> Anyway, is there a tutorial on networking using RunRev?  I want to make
> two Macs talk to each other (using Bonjour, or whatever else will work)
> and share a stack.  Is this reasonably easy to do?  I'm exploring two
> ideas: simple multi-user games for my students, and creating an
> application where several users can draw on a card at the same time --
> like SubEthaEdit, except with painting.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers (including subject headers of previous threads)
> you can provide.
> 
> cheers,
>   - marty
> 
> --
> Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
> The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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