Re: Renaming users local files with WebDNA based solution
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2007
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 68435
interpreted = N
texte = WJ Starck wrote: > I could have someone write a desktop app by showing the developer the > algorithm, but I thought I could control licensing and unauthorized > sharing of the app better with a web based solution. Also, for most > customers this would be a one shot conversion, so selling them an > installed software solution doesn't really make sense. > > Hope that's clear, I'm curious to know if it's doable Not using WebDNA it's not. WebDNA is a server-side scripting language. You need a client-side language (since the files are on the client). Most web-resident languages (like JAVA or JavaScript/ECMAScript) don't even support accessing local files like that anyways, so either way, you would have to write a program that the user could run locally to perform the update. It would be trivial to do in Perl and package it up as a standalone binary, but if you are concerned about distribution/licensing issues, that might not be the best solution either. HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Blvd Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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WJ Starck wrote: > I could have someone write a desktop app by showing the developer the > algorithm, but I thought I could control licensing and unauthorized > sharing of the app better with a web based solution. Also, for most > customers this would be a one shot conversion, so selling them an > installed software solution doesn't really make sense. > > Hope that's clear, I'm curious to know if it's doable Not using WebDNA it's not. WebDNA is a server-side scripting language. You need a client-side language (since the files are on the client). Most web-resident languages (like JAVA or JavaScript/ECMAScript) don't even support accessing local files like that anyways, so either way, you would have to write a program that the user could run locally to perform the update. It would be trivial to do in Perl and package it up as a standalone binary, but if you are concerned about distribution/licensing issues, that might not be the best solution either. HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Blvd Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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