Re: Synchronization puzzle - take care!

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 03:03, Alex Tweedly wrote: Sorry about the problems. I find it's one of the biggest problems with Rev's "live IDE" style - it's so hard to ensure that you are properly emulating a "cold start". Not at all - thanks for sharing it! __

Re: Synchronization puzzle - take care!

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
David Bovill wrote: Thanks for posting this Alex - word of warning and feature request for RunRev - or is as ever there a way I haven't spotted? First the warning - downloading the stack "Networked Address Book" from revOnline automatically asked me to locate x,y, z - can't remember - to

Re: Synchronization puzzle - take care!

2005-11-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi David, Just use the contextual menu as I explained it in a previous post to Jan (4 hours ago) and toplevel the answer dialogue :-) All is now accessible... If you are asked to save the dialogue when closing it, just don't save it ;-) Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 9 nov. 0

Re: Synchronization puzzle - take care!

2005-11-09 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for posting this Alex - word of warning and feature request for RunRev - or is as ever there a way I haven't spotted? First the warning - downloading the stack "Networked Address Book" from revOnline automatically asked me to locate x,y, z - can't remember - to which I naturally said

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
David Bovill wrote: I'd be interested in this for the Address Book app I'm working on. Not addressed the issue of data synchronisation in any depth yet... The stack is now on revonline (username alextweedly, category: General), called something like "Networked Address Book". The synch meth

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-09 Thread David Bovill
I'd be interested in this for the Address Book app I'm working on. Not addressed the issue of data synchronisation in any depth yet... On 8 Nov 2005, at 18:22, Dave LeYanna wrote: I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM lib or stack that may be available and not

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-08 Thread Dave LeYanna
Thanks Alex! Dave Alex Tweedly wrote: Dave LeYanna wrote: Alex; I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM lib or stack that may be available and noticed your post about syncronization issues you were looking at. Did you ever finish that addressbook app? would

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dave LeYanna wrote: Alex; I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM lib or stack that may be available and noticed your post about syncronization issues you were looking at. Did you ever finish that addressbook app? would you be interested in sharing or selling it

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-08 Thread Dave LeYanna
My bad, should have been a personal email... However, if anyone knows of some tools or stacks that I can use/buy to implement a PIM please let me know... Dave Dave LeYanna wrote: Alex; I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM lib or stack that may be available

Synchronization puzzle.

2005-11-08 Thread Dave LeYanna
Alex; I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM lib or stack that may be available and noticed your post about syncronization issues you were looking at. Did you ever finish that addressbook app? would you be interested in sharing or selling it? We need to develop

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-01-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
I wrote: [ slightly OT - this is a "design / algorithm" question rather than a Rev/xtalk one, really ] [and it's a long, rambling email - so feel free to skip it] You just can't get good staff these days :-) My typist (that's me) missed a crucial sentence or two when transferring hand-written n

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-01-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Stephen Barncard wrote: Why bother with sync at all? That looks like a nightmare! Because I need it. Are all your workstations internet-connected? No. Some of them are some of the time, but in general they're not. And it's not acceptable to be unable to make edits when they're not connected. I th

Re: Synchronization puzzle.

2005-01-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
Why bother with sync at all? That looks like a nightmare! Are all your workstations internet-connected? Why not create a MYSQL database and any number of clients made in Rev to talk to it. Most good ISPs offer it. All data will be real-time - no copies needed. Very simple. [ slightly OT - this i

Synchronization puzzle.

2005-01-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
[ slightly OT - this is a "design / algorithm" question rather than a Rev/xtalk one, really ] [and it's a long, rambling email - so feel free to skip it] I am in the process of writing my own Address Book application. That may sound like an odd thing to do : aren't there already hundreds of pro