Stacks delivered via the web?

[Troy Rollins]

On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 09:10  PM, Judy Perry wrote:

> Could someone describe to me, on or off-list depending how much you
> anticipate everyone's gonna groan, just how the below works?  I am not
> certain I am understanding it well enough to present it as a potential
> solution to the department...

I believe what is being described is a "stub" program. Essentially a 
distributed version of the Rev engine which makes a call to a server to 
receive the actual stack files to be run. In turn, that actual stack 
file could be a menu which allows the selection of other stacks which 
reside on the server. To update the "menu", one simply has to update the 
menu stack which resides on the server. It basically acts as a program 
which the creator does not have to decide what they want the program to 
do when they distribute it. All that needs to be decided is where the 
program will get its future instruction from (the server location and 
file path.)

This is exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned that forcing a 
browser based solution was rather short sighted - after all, Director 
requires the ShockWave plugin... isn't that about the same as a "stub" 
program?

Cheers.


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Troy
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