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Hi,
I have just rekindled my interest in Livecode and have started watching the RevLive.09 videos. The first of the discs has video of David Asay and Jacque Gay adding Livecode code to web pages. They use tools which may have been either renamed or dropped and I am wondering how much of what they describe is still valid.

They appear to describe two methods of using Livecode code in a web page. Method 1 involves entering Livecode code in or on an HTML page between >?Rev code ?< tags which seems to be called iRev or possibly RevTalk and is written using an application named "On-Rev". Method two involves the creation of "Revletts" which seem to be created as normal stacks and require the end users browser to install a plugin.

I am more than a little confused and would welcome some assistance in understanding how the past product range maps to the present.

Thanks

Simon

Simon-

The revlets referred to are built using the "deploy to web" option of the stack standalone builder settings. Yes, they do require that the end user download a plugin in order to run them in a browser. There are a few other limitations on things that don't work because of browser security models, but otherwise you can run a stack using the browser plugin the same way as on the desktop.

The iRev scripting is done using the revserver product on the on-rev.com host or some other server computer on which it is installed. At the time of the 2009 conference revserver wasn't available as a separate product, so the examples were on the on-rev server which was up and running but proprietary. Now that revserver has been released, you can use the example coding from the session on any computer that has revserver installed. It replaces the old cgi engine for backend server tasks and makes life much easier.

Mwieder,

Thanks - that clarifies the situation. Does the On-Rev application still exist to control the uploading of code to the server?

Simon

Well, yes, but it's old and buggy. Don't tell anyone, but I don't actually use it myself. I just edit text files locally, ftp them to the server, and hope they work.