Multi-standalone communication

[Jim Ault]

On 12/8/06 4:40 PM, "Jesse Sng" <jsng at wayoflife.org> wrote:
> I've only been skimming through this discussion, but IF you are only
> running on the Mac, you might want to try using AppleEvents to
> communicate between the 2 apps in a peer to peer manner.
> 
> You can design specific AE messages to mean certain things and then
> have the receiving app take appropriate action. You are able also to
> pass parameters and it need be, even have these 2 apps work across
> the network on different machines.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to attempt all this on OS X, but since
> AppleEvents have been migrated over, it should pretty much just work
> with some minor modifications.
> 
> Years back, I was able to even have this work across a LAN bridge
> that used a modem so that I could remotely control apps that were on
> a large fibre network, all from the comfort of home.

Since you brought it up, I will say that the previous message I send was
describing 4 apps I am running on a Mac Mini Duo Intel processor with a
clean system, except for Timbuktu running constantly.

In my case, Applescript would be far too slow, since my messaging can be as
many as 6-10 packets per second between the data service provider, 4 Rev
apps local, and 6 Rev apps remote (and  3 of the remote apps are running on
Windows)
Two of the apps are running on the other side of the Atlantic on a Mac Mini
Solo.

Very smooth and I believe I have a lot of capacity to handle more traffic on
all the computers. 

I am not an Applescript expert, but I cannot imagine any of my Applescripts
keeping up such a pace, day after day, without failure.

Glad you chimed in.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas