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goya's avatar
goya
Visitor
14 years ago

any plans for background brightscript services

if one would want to develop an instant messageing type application one would need to have some channel, but one would also need to be able to run some background scripts that would monitor for intere...
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jbrave
Channel Surfer
14 years ago
Why not write a screensaver to poll for incoming messages and launch your channel if a message comes in? There would be at most a 5 minute gap where messages might be missed, but any reasonable messaging system would keep a que of messages in case the recipient is offline.

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