Re: [Blocks-development] Alternative to ActiveX: TCP/IP! ^_^

[Blat F. <pet...@ho...>]

>From: lu...@et...
>To: "Spencer Jr., Michael" <sp...@ac...>,        
>blo...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Blocks-development] Alternative to ActiveX:  TCP/IP!  ^_^
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:53:56 -0400
>
>* Spencer Jr., Michael wrote:
> > This is for WAY down the road...but when we are ready to start making a
> > 'pretty' GUI client...
> >
> > Make it client/server!
>
>I was thinking about this as well and like it a lot.  I was having a
>non-trivial time compiling fltk so couldn't get the blockgui up on my
>Solaris box.  I got blockd up, though, but couldn't really communicate
>with it easily.  I would have loved to been able to fire the gui up on
>my NT box and connect it to the Solaris server.

I can punt you a Solaris binary at somepoint if you want. Unfortunately the 
code is in the middle of being mangled for
V0.15... and its quite a big change, so it doesnt work right now :)
Still looking good for early next week.

>
>Having the gui be able to talk to any server would be quite nifty.

Ah... the things that could have been if blockgui wasnt just
hacked together :)

But, it was intended to be a prototype after all.

ttfn
PG.

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