like for example inv-fileidhash.not would mean "invitation to file with that ID" .... but having been placed in a particular user's notification folder, it would know the notification is for that user and no other.
make sense? On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Tom Glod <t...@makeshyft.com> wrote: > 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/CNsqhxGrCvUzEJP1nHMNew~~/AAGp3AA~/RgRbf1hTP0EIACzNimS-87hXA3NwY1gEAAAAAFkGc2hhcmVkYQdoZWxsb18xYA01Mi4zOS4xODIuMjQ4QgoAANMknln1JeHJUh11c2UtbGl2ZWNvZGVAbGlzdHMucnVucmV2LmNvbQlRBAAAAABENWh0dHA6Ly9saXN0cy5ydW5yZXYuY29tL21haWxtYW4vbGlzdGluZm8vdXNlLWxpdmVjb2RlRwJ7fQ~~ >> > > _______________________________________________ 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
