Getting Started Digest #137 - Sunday, December 21, 2003
making a screen saver (was Re: Getting Started Digest)
by "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
openbase
by "W.Davis" <wdavis3 at cinci dot rr dot com>
Re: openbase
by "Will Leshner" <leshner at ljug dot com>
Re: Do you have to save a database?
by <GAmoore at aol dot com>
Re: Getting Started Digest
by <GAmoore at aol dot com>
Re: Getting Started Digest
by "Mars Saxman" <mars at realsoftware dot com>
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Subject: making a screen saver (was Re: Getting Started Digest)
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:43:47 -0600
At 9:20 PM +0000 12/19/03, Paul Garfield wrote:
I have been looking without much luck for a simple solution to write
a screen saver for a Mac under OSX 10.3.
That's because there is no simple solution for that (if you mean
something that works with the built-in OS X screen saver system).
You'll have to write in objective-C, as far as I know.
Best,
- Joe
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Subject: openbase
From: "W.Davis" <wdavis3 at cinci dot rr dot com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:23:44 -0500
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Group,
I have been using the visual links for datacontrol and databasequery
to =
fill fields on my form. I use winxp to develop on. Everything works
fine =
while using a Realdatabase, but when I switch to an identical openbase
=
database, my add and insert buttons don't update openbase. What I am =
wondering is if I have to use the manual commands i.e. select, insert,
=
etc. on databases other than RB databases, instead of using the visual
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links.
TIA,
Wade
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Subject: Re: openbase
From: "Will Leshner" <leshner at ljug dot com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:31:11 -0800
On Dec 20, 2003, at 11:23 AM, W.Davis wrote:
I have been using the visual links for datacontrol and databasequery
to fill fields on my form. I use winxp to develop on. Everything works
fine while using a Realdatabase, but when I switch to an identical
openbase database, my add and insert buttons don't update openbase.
What I am wondering is if I have to use the manual commands i.e.
select, insert, etc. on databases other than RB databases, instead of
using the visual links.
It depends on how the DB API has been implemented by a particular
database engine/plugin. Perhaps there is a problem with the OpenBase
implementation of REAL's DB API.
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Subject: Re: Do you have to save a database?
From: <GAmoore at aol dot com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:40:42 EST
Why not just make an array? It would be much faster to access or use,
and no
file creations commands. Otherwise make a file, then automatically
delete it
at the end when your app quits.
I am making an app that queries a large list of items for certain
things. The list of things to be queried is created on startup and
does not need to be saved. All my research on databases say that you
need to save a database on the hard drive in order to use it. Is
there
any way to create a temporary database that only exists in memory? Or
should I use a different control?
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Subject: Re: Getting Started Digest
From: <GAmoore at aol dot com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:46:26 EST
I have no idea if you compile a RB program and then make it run as a
screen
saver. However, I would guess not. But you can go to apple's site,
then go to
the developer area. I was just there last night, and I got the complete
description for an AIFF file in great detail by doing a search there.
I wonder if there is a way of writing a VST plugin using RB. I have
seen some
things in the past that you can write them using C++.
I have been looking without much luck for a simple solution to write a
screen saver for a Mac under OSX 10.3.
Can you make any suggestions where to start.
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Subject: Re: Getting Started Digest
From: "Mars Saxman" <mars at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:25:43 -0800
GAmoore at aol dot com wrote:
I wonder if there is a way of writing a VST plugin using RB. I have
seen some
things in the past that you can write them using C++.
No, I'm afraid there's no way to write a VST in RB. It'd be nice if you
could, though.
Mars Saxman
REAL Software
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