by notification I don't mean anything fancy or OS or network based...just a notification system that shows to the user "so and so has invited you to a file"... defined entirely by me.
the code in the filename is pre-defined, they would all be lower case and under x amount of characters. my question is whether there is some kind of bottle neck that I am not aware of that could prevent a LAN to send "the files" list to multiple clients quickly...or more quickly than a DB query for records that match a certain query. Thanks guys.... On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 8/23/2017 4:25 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: > > Hi folks, I'm building a notification system....and I don't want to add > > another DB query to the system....so my idea is to save notifications as > a > > file in a folder, and the just read and process "the files" .... > > > > so the name of the file would contain the notification data.... i > wouldn't > > have to read each file, just the list of files in the folder. > > > > hoping to save some network traffic that way. > > > > am I gonna regret this?...hit some kind of OS bottleneck?..... anybody > have > > any ideas why this would be a bad idea? > > > > we build for all 3 desktop platforms. > > > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > > > Are the notifications (i.e the file names) preset? Or user entered. If > user entered, realize that there are issues with converting file names > across platforms. Linux, OSX, and Window have different reserved > characters and file name standards, as well as different support for > Unicode or high-ASCII characters. If all you messages are basic ASCII > characters and under about 250 characters in length, you should be fine. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://post.spmailt.com/f/a/2Ef3vPmOFzFQneoXbnxVqA~~/AAGp3AA~/RgRbf1esP0EIACzK-jOk0UVXA3NwY1gEAAAAAFkGc2hhcmVkYQdoZWxsb18xYAw1Mi4zOS4yNi4xNDRCCgAALCSeWXgladNSHXVzZS1saXZlY29kZUBsaXN0cy5ydW5yZXYuY29tCVEEAAAAAEQ1aHR0cDovL2xpc3RzLnJ1bnJldi5jb20vbWFpbG1hbi9saXN0aW5mby91c2UtbGl2ZWNvZGVHAnt9 > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode