RevNet installation

[Wilhelm Sanke]

Alena Raymond <araymond at arcplanning.com> wrote:

> (snip)
> I need to make Standalone Application already developed available to
> special clients.
>
> Now this special Standalone Application Is been Developed for the last
> two years so there is quite some work developed in it.  I am hoping
> that it is possible to make it Client available with just a few minor
> changes.
> (snip)


and "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> (snip)
> Actually, I think this is something you could do. You would need to
> store your standalone stack on the server as the orginal stack, not as a
> standalone. Then you need to build a standalone like RevNet which you
> can distribute to your clients. When your clients click a button on
> their standalone, it downloads the stack from your server.
>
> To open a stack over the internet, you only need this command:
>
>   go stack url "http://www.domain.com/mystack.rev"
>
> You can't run a standalone over the internet, but you can run stacks,
> which is what RevNet does.
> (snip)



Actually, you can indeed run a standalone over the internet if

- you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and WindowsXP  (I haven't tried 
on a Mac) and
- you have stored your standalone on an anonymous FTP-Server where you 
can display the contents of the folder in question and then click on the 
exe-file you intend to open. Internet Explorer will give you the choice 
to directly open the standalone or to download it. This possibility does 
not exist in Netscape AFAIK (7.1).---

Of course, there is not much of a difference (in terms of time needed) 
whether you first download and then start the standalone or start the 
standalone directly.--

Apart from Richard Gaskin's RevNet stack there are other "clients" which 
allow you to directly open MC and Rev stack from the net and which show 
the download progress with a progress bar.

There is stack "hakey.mc" on site
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/

There is Scott Rossi's stack "tmpanel.mc" (and ".rev") at  
"http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/"

Scott Rossi wrote on Jul 5:
   

> Also updated are our demo stacks, and our stack viewer which is now
> (hopefully) more Rev friendly and provides separate access to Rev and MC
> stacks.  While carefully *avoiding* use of your Web browser, type 
> either of
> the following into your Rev or MC message box:
>
>   go stack url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/tmpanel.rev"
>
>   go stack url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/tmpanel.mc"


Another good example is the Metacard IDE (get it from 
"ftp.metacard.com") from which you can directly open stacks via the 
Menubar, last item of menubutton "Tools" and first item of menubutton 
"Help".

For the benefit of our students at our institution we use a similar "net 
client" for directly openening mc and rev-files from our ftp-server. The 
client is a standalone with the added functionality of a simple MC- and 
Rev-Player application. I have described this net-client on my site 
http://www.sanke.org (English section, "page samples"), but before 
putting it on the site for downloading I still need to make some 
adjustments.-

It is useful to have a look at the scripts of the download-and-open 
clients; they are not password-protected.

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke