Re: communication with Amaya

Hi,
> 
> I'm currently developping a small application (webwader) for checking
> web sites : it sends the url of the pages to verify to a browser
> which takes care of the display.
> For this feature to work the browser must be able to receive information
> from other applications. For instance, on Unix, Netscape has
> the option "-remote openURL()"; under Win32 , DDE can be used to implement
> communication.
> 
> As far as Amaya is concerned nothing was available, so I've added a
> server functionnality to the Motif-Unix version. It is a very
> simplistic implementation based on XtAppAddInput(), the new input
> being a socket. When a string (the url to show) arrives through
> the socket CallbackDialogue is called and the page is displayed.
> It is a very, very limited implementation but it works : a list
> of html pages can be rapidly and automatically visualized by Amaya.
> (http://jeanpaul.lefevre.free.fr/java/webwader/index.html)

We're interested by this development. Could you send us your patch?

> A more sophiticated implementation could be interesting. I'm thinking about
> Xml-Rpc or SOAP. Is it realistic to expect such a development from
> the Amaya team ?

We don't plan to work on this for the moment.

-- 
     Irene.