multi-user

Multiple mouse pointers?

Is there a way to accept input from more than one mouse separately? I'm interested in making a multi-user application and I thought it would be great if I could have 2 or more users holding wireless mice each interacting with the app individually with a separate mouse arrow. Is this something I should try to farm out to some other appli...

Single Multi-User Checkout in Subversion - Possible?

Hi, In our organization, we have the following problem. We want to have our web tree revision-controlled, but many of us want to be able to alter (and check in) any file of that tree. We would also like there to be only a single check-out for all this because the tree is rather huge. For parts of that tree, we are currently using RCS, w...

Pessimistic versus Optimistic Concurrency (Locking versus Feedback)

I'm building an application with the following criteria: work items: items that need to be manually worked via the web by users (short one page form) Multiple users working 'work items' Each user has a queue of 'work items' There is a search that allows users to view 'work items' and assign 'work items' to their queues Users can take '...

multi-user application record locking - best method?

I'm developing a php / mysql application that handles multiple simultaneous users. I'm thinking of the best approach to take when it comes to locking / warning against records that are currently being viewed / edited. The scenario to avoid is two users viewing the record, one making a change, then the other doing likewise - with the po...

How to set up a development environment in MS Access

I have created an MS Access 2003 application, set up as a split front-end/back-end configuration, with a user group of about five people. The front end .mdb sits on a network file server, and it contains all the queries, forms, reports, and VBA code, plus links to all the tables in the back end .mdb and some links to ODBC data sources li...

Setting up an MS-Access DB for multi-user access

We're thinking of "growing" a little MS-Access DB with a few tables, forms and queries for multiple users. (Using a different back-end is another, but more long-term option that is unfortunately currently not acceptable.) Most users will be read-only, but there will be a few (currently one or two) users that have to be able to do changes...

Determining user intent in a multi-user, multi-touch application

I am developing a surface application (though the platform isn't really relevant) that needs to track usage statistics and produce data that can analyzed to answer several usage related questions. Specifically, I have a screen in my application that will display multiple pieces of content at once (ScatterView for the surface people). On...

multiple users, multiple applications, one server

I have an idea for a web application that involves a multiple users, two different applications (which will be run from a user's local machine), and a remote database server. Databases stored on remote server: 1) Username database - contains user information 2) application database - contains two rows, one for each application. Stores a...

How to don incremental multi user updates with NHibernate

Hello, I use nhibernate as my orm and i am trying to implement something that looks straightforward but has become unneccessarily difficult. It concerns how to implement concurrent updates to an entity where it is expected that the entity will be updated simultaneously by more than one user in a multiuser scenario. The entity is an acc...