Send Data/Text From iOS to Desktop App on LAN?

[JOHN PATTEN]

Monte & Mike…

I like the idea of the teacher not having to share their IP by using the mergeBonjour external.  Lame question, but the mergeExternal would work on a Windows desktop app too?  …I'm guessing the desktop app has to announce that it is available via bonjour and this is done with the external? And then, the clients can report out all available Bonjour connections, i.e.  John Patten's  MacBook, Other Teacher's MacBook, etc. Student then just picks the correct teacher which then gives the client the path to send data to the teacher's App (IP)…?

Also Mike, can you elaborate on how I could use http between two LiveCode stacks?  Is this because HTTP is built into everything you essentially don't need the http server part and http can be used (post & get) if you know the address of the app you are trying to post or get from?

For example, two stacks on the same LAN..

Sender stack would do something like a... 

post fld "student response" to URL "127.0.0.1/user/johnpatten/Documents/TeacherServerApp.rev" cd fld "student data"

or if I was using mergeBonjour would it be something like…

after sending call for apps broadcasting Bonjour, select and store the target app (IP) in tTargetTeacher

post fld "student response" to URL tTargetTeacher/user/johnpatten/Documents/TeacherServerAPP.rev " cd vld "student data"


I also have questions about the blocking aspect, but will wait until I get a handle on the http point :)

Thanks for your patience!

Much appreciated!

John Patten
SUSD


On Dec 19, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> John,
> If you were to use http, the teacher would not have to set something up.
> You would build the code right into the teacher's app and the students'
> clients.  The only problem I see is that I believe that the http code in LC
> is blocking, so if you had something flakey happen with the connection you
> could lock up the apps.
> 
> In this case forget the file transfer ideas as the response time will not
> be fast enough for what you want.
> 
> No matter what solution you choose, you would have to have a way to
> discriminate against students that have the app that are on the network but
> are not in the classroom.  That is not a network problem, though.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 20/12/2012, at 6:42 AM, JOHN PATTEN <johnpatten at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 2. At the start of the lesson, click a button on their app which reports
>> their IP to them witch they then share that with the students who record it
>> in their iOS client.
>> 
>> If you want to share IP like this then you don't need bonjour. Bonjour
>> avoids this step and in the student app they just click on John Patten's
>> MacBook. Much simpler in complex ed department networks.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> --
>> Monte Goulding
>> 
>> M E R Goulding - software development services
>> mergExt - There's an external for that!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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