Multi-standalone communication
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Dec 9 12:18:33 EST 2006
Viktoras Didziulis wrote:
> Just wondering whether it would be possible/feasible to construct a feature
> (or maybe to bugzillae a feature request) of revolution engine, (or maybe a
> module or external), that would make different instances of rev engine
> running on same machine seeing each other and sharing their global variables
> Maybe such a module/feature could initially be implemented using sockets or
> environment variables or shared memory buffer for storing global values...
You can already set environment variables. Here is a quote from one of
Mark Waddingham's posts:
> You can both read and write to shell variables in Revolution. So the
> following:
> put foo into $FOO
> put shell("echo $FOO")
> Results in what you would expect in the message-box :o)
This seems like an easy way to do it.
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