Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Monte Goulding
On 06/12/2012, at 2:15 AM, Rod McCall wrote: > We basically need to be able to support secure data connections to/from a > server. Based on discussions from a long time ago and also on looking at > the LiveCode dictionary (at least in 5.5.1) there is no support for sockets. If you are only goi

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Monte Goulding
On 06/12/2012, at 5:41 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> If you absolutely must use a custom protocol, you may want to contact >> Monte about this as he's evaluating whether to make an external for that. > > But still no Android. It's true that any external I write is going to be iOS only in the short

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Pierre Sahores
Yes, natively on both iOS and Android platforms. If needed, the mobile browser can be used to embed HTTPS bidirectional communications. Le 5 déc. 2012 à 17:52, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > But if you're taking the more common approach of using a RESTful API over > HTTP, I believe LiveCode support

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 8:52:02 AM, you wrote: > If you absolutely must use a custom protocol, you may want to contact > Monte about this as he's evaluating whether to make an external for that. But still no Android. > But if you're taking the more common approach of using a RESTf

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rod McCall wrote: We are in the process of deciding whether to use LiveCode or another platform for mobile development. I gather, well at least on looking at the dictionary that sockets are not available on IOS or Android - at least not directly. Are there any relatively simple extensions or nat

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Rod McCall
That would be good, we would need it for IOS and Android though. Kind regards, rod On 5 December 2012 17:25, Mark Talluto wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Rod McCall wrote: > > > Thanks Mark, it looks like lack of sockets may mean the same for us. > Anyway > > we will decide shortly. >

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Talluto
On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Rod McCall wrote: > Thanks Mark, it looks like lack of sockets may mean the same for us. Anyway > we will decide shortly. > > Kind regards, > > rod Monte is looking to make an external that will support sockets. He mentioned he was going to post something on thi

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Rod McCall
Thanks Mark, it looks like lack of sockets may mean the same for us. Anyway we will decide shortly. Kind regards, rod On 5 December 2012 16:52, Mark Wieder wrote: > Rod- > > Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 7:15:50 AM, you wrote: > > > directly. Are there any relatively simple extensions or nativ

Re: Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

2012-12-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Rod- Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 7:15:50 AM, you wrote: > directly. Are there any relatively simple extensions or native components > that can be used or other workarounds? No. There is no socket support, and no way to add it. We gave up on LiveCode at work and went with Flex. Ugly, but it does