Was looking for something more like this... https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd
I'll give it a try. Thank you all! On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 3:13:08 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 9:46:33 AM UTC-7, LoveWeb2py wrote: >> >> I run a script that prints to stdout, but I'd like to have a modal popup >> and have all the information displayed to the user while the script is >> running. >> >> Anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this within web2py? >> >> > There are 2 mechanism in HTML5, I believe, but I'm only going to point you > at one for the moment: Web Workers. > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/javascript/working-with-web-workers-in-html5-powered-web-pages.html > > > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/HTML5/client/introduction-to-html5-web-workers-the-javascript-multi-threading-approach.html > > > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/other/html5-tech-shared-web-workers-help-spread-the-news.html > > > > With this mechanism, you'd spawn a web worker to do jquery/ajax to check > when it was time to replace the content. A couple of the examples > calculate Pi, and paste the results into the main page. > > There is also web sockets in HTML5. > <URL: > http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/tutorials/making-html5-websockets-work.html > > > Gluon/contrib has websocket_messaging.py. > > I thought I remembered an HTML5 server push mechanisms for notifications, > but if it's there I'm not looking in the right place. > > > If you need Apple-ish answers, there's this post: > > <URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/W1OkIACwtJA/X4qs4-mY9e4J> > > /dps > > /dps > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
