Updating LiveCode desktop app from the web

Question

How would I build a LiveCode application that can update its component stacks with newer versions from a web server? I have seen this mentioned as "easy to do" but have been unable to locate specifics on how it can be down.

Answer 1

It's just a few lines of code. Open the stack from the server and save it to disk:

go stack url ("http://path/to/server/file.livecode")
set the filename of this stack to <path on disk>
save this stack

If you don't want to actually display the stack, you can just load it into a variable and save that to disk. Be sure to use binary if you do that:

put url ("http://path/to/server/file.livecode") into myVar
put myVar into url ("binfile:" & <path on disk>)

The second method could be reduced to a single line of script.

There's a LiveCode lesson that explains the concepts here: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/78702-opening-a-stack-from-the-server