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Exploring Revolution: Internet Enabled Applications
Does your application need to download or upload information? Do you want to process and display data from the Internet or Intranet? Perhaps you want to download application components from a web server? Or update your application automatically? Whatever your needs, accessing information online is a snap with Revolution.
The Internet - just one line of code away
Basic Internet operations in Revolution are similar to entering a URL into your web browser. A single line of code will initiate a download or upload. That simplicity even extends to downloading and running Revolution application components stored online with that one line.
Support for Standards
All the main Internet standards are built in. Support for http, ftp, post are all single line commands. Online database access for a variety of popular SQL databases is built in (we’ll be covering that in detail the fourth in this series). The built in sockets support allows you to add support for your own protocols. Its easy to access SOAP or XML-rpc web services. SSL secure data transfer is built into high end editions. A free add on allows you to render HTML, PDF data, Flash or AJAX applications within your Revolution application. Another free 3rd party library allows you to send email. Whatever you need to do online, Revolution makes it easy.
Interactive Workshop: Learn How, Now
Highlights
Download
Download the HTML source code from any web page and display it on screen...
put URL "http://www.runrev.com/" into field "sample text"
Load and run a Revolution program stored online…go stack URL “http://www.runrev.com/
ws/internet.rev”
Send Email
Send an email using your email client…
revMail "null@bitbucket.com",
"me@trial.org","A test message","The message body." |
Try out the Internet in Revolution right now. To make it easy, we've prepared a tutorial workshop - Exploring Revolution: Internet Enabled Applications. In it we show you how to complete several common tasks. As your understanding grows, you can change the examples and see the effects right within the workshop, or just drop the example code into a new project and create something completely new.
Get it now from within Revolution by opening the Message Box from the toolbar then pasting in the following and pressing return:
go stack URL "http://www.runrev.com/ws/internet.rev"
Or you can get it by downloading it from:
http://www.runrev.com/ws/internet.zip
We hope you find this tutorial useful. Don't miss the next installment in the series, which will explore working with databases.
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