Running a stack from the On-Rev server.

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Francis,

You can set a password for a directory and prevent downloading the MP3  
files without password. For a demo, you could use small 20 seconds  
fragments of the same MP3 files and put those into a different,  
unprotected directory. You can download the files using a put URL  
command. Put the MP3 files into the application data folder on Windows  
and the application support folder on Mac.

If you are able to build standalones, you can make a zip file of the  
standalone and upload it. Just point to the zip file in e-mails and  
html files to allow people to download the standalone.

It would help potential customers very much if you provided an (.exe)  
installer for Windows, which installs the standalone automatically.  
For Mac users, just put all files inside the application package of  
the standalone and tell them to copy the entire thing into their  
application folder.

Btw, if you have more than 1 server, you can write a simple irev  
script to randomly write out HTML files with links to different  
mirrors. That might spread your bandwidth.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com

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On 22 sep 2009, at 12:42, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:

> Hi from Paris,
>
> I have a Revolution demonstration program that I want to show to  
> potential buyers. The demo stack is called by a Mac or PC  
> SplashStack, so I effectively have two stacks.
> I could send it by CD, but this takes time, but it would be so nice  
> to allow them to download it from my On-Rev server. The program  
> displays lots of text and graphics (all internal), so no problem  
> there, However, the user can play any of a large number of MP3 song  
> files, which are in an external (to the Rev program) folder, also on  
> the server.
>
> Can I play an MP3 file in the user computer from a folder on the On- 
> Rev server, or download it (about 5 megs) first, and then play it ?
>
> Because this would make all of our song files available (not very  
> intelligent), I would like to modify my splashstack to ask for a  
> password, and only download the music to accepted users.
>
> And finally, how does the user download my program (Mac or PC  
> version) from the On-Rev server ? It might seem easy to some of you,  
> but I've never done this before !!
>
> This represents rather a lot of questions, but if I get answers  
> here, I promise to go away and not bother you guys for a long time :>)
>
> May I add that these are the sort of answers which I would love to  
> find in a Rev cook-book.
>
> OSX Leopard, Rev 3.0, build 750, On-Rev access.
>
> -Francis
>
> "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"
>