Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

2012-01-16 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks again, Mike! Much obliged. Gregory On Mon, Jan 16, 2012, at 6:16 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:52:33 -0700 From: Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Getting the

Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

2012-01-15 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Is there a LiveCode handler that can be used to get the date and time from a remote Mac that has a static IP address? Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

2012-01-15 Thread Mike Bonner
The easiest way I can think of would be to have the web server running and a page that returns the date and time. Alternatively you might be able to turn on the ntp server for your mac and then talk to that. I'm sure there are other ways too, but these are off the top of my head real quick. On

Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

2012-01-15 Thread stephen barncard
not too hard if you write a small app to live on the remote mac. Check out sockets in the dictionary and download Chatrev to see how they're used. http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=chatrev On 15 January 2012 09:20, Gregory Lypny gregory.ly...@videotron.ca wrote: Hello everyone, Is there

Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

2012-01-15 Thread Mike Bonner
Had one more though in the same vein. I think Andre has a stack that is a basic http server. It would probably be easy to modify it so that the server itself could return your time/date info as well as any other system info you wanted to be able to get at remotely. And since it does its thing

Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

2012-01-15 Thread Mike Bonner
Yep the revonrockets and http stack by Andre works great and already has a sample of returning the time. It works great. The time example uses a .rev stack as a cgi. (look in the stacks folder) The stack script has examples of how to use the cgi stack. Currently it has a method for getting the