Re: lingo-l testing for Internet connection

2003-03-19 Thread Howdy-Tzi
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 12:18 America/Chicago, Slava Paperno wrote: Is there a way to use Lingo to see if the PC/Mac is connected to the Internet? Not reliably, in my experience. You can try polling the environment.internetConnected but you'll probably find it's not accurate. As I

lingo-l testing for Internet connection

2003-03-19 Thread Slava Paperno
Is there a way to use Lingo to see if the PC/Mac is connected to the Internet? I use baOpenURL to start the default browser and load a page, but I'd like to test for connection first. There's a great TechNote on using getNetText for this at at