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[Bill Vlahos]

I would like to make a application using the new capabilities in Rev 4 that I am having trouble figuring out. It is for checking out resources so people can see who has the resources checked out.

For example:
Room A   * In  O Out  Fred Smith (these would be radio buttons followed by the name of the person who checked it out)
Room B   O In  * Out  Available
etc.

I'd like the clients to be able to see the status in a web browser. The checking in and out would be set in a server application which people log into. The client web browser would need to be able refresh itself. A screen refresh would work except it is ugly (whole screen clears and redraws) and it wouldn't by dynamic. I'd like to be able to push the updates to it in real time.

It seems like this is a good candidate for the plugin to make the updates smooth but it could also be done using Rev like a PHP server.

I can see how to save an application in Rev 4 for the plugin but I don't see how it would read the changes and update the client. This could also probably be done in Rev like PHP so it is just updating HTML but I'm not sure how to get started there.

Any ideas on how to start this?

Thanks,
Bill Vlahos
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