What you are mentioning sounds like the most logical course of action. You're basically implementing a 'lock' file within the application. The only issue with this approach is 'wedging' which can occur. If a user opens the application and their computer crashes, the file will be locked with no way to unlock without prompting the user to unlock. An approach to this is to add a timestamp to the lock and have the app refresh the timestamp every minute or so. Then if a timestamp is older than one minute (and change) you can be assured that the user with the lock is no longer working on the file.
Peace C On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Eric E. Dolecki <edole...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering if there is a framework for determining if an AIR > application has been opened by more than one person on a network? > > I have a data file that the AIR application opens and allows editing for. > Works great, however instances of the application all open the same data > file. The chances are slim that more than one person will be accessing that > single data file at a time, but I think I need to allow for detection and > alert a user that someone else is also accessing the data & therefore they > could stomp on each other's changes. > > I was going to use a simple XML file and when the app loads, check a value > in the XML. Each time someone opens the app, it checks the number and adds 1 > to it & writes to the XML. Each time the app (instance) is quit, it > decrements the number until 0 (no one else is accessing). Not sure if this > is a good approach or not since it's based solely on happening when one > starts the application up and I was going to avoid polling the XML to see if > it changed over time. > > So looking for an easy to implement solution to this problem. Perhaps my XML > file thing is the way to go - not sure. > > Thanks for any insight, > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
