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- Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:11 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Best practice for caching
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2383
Best practice for caching
Greetings, I want to cache values from the DB (mainly lookup table values that are not changed); I have seen in the query bulider the checkbox: "Cache Record Set". I don't want to use the query builder. What is the best practice to create cached record sets? Should I create global variables that wil...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:11 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: How-To: Non-Blocking DB/Interrnet operation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6083
Hi, my question is: what to do in situations in which you know you need background processes that are blocking user activities, because they are taking so much time/resources; Revolution has no multi-threading capabilities. Which is pretty bad :-( I remember that i was using an example from the tuto...
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:39 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: How-To: Non-Blocking DB/Interrnet operation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6083
How-To: Non-Blocking DB/Interrnet operation
Greetings, I have some lengthy DB and Internet operations which doesn't required to be finished before the user can do something else whithin in his visual interface. What is the best practise advise to create this type of "multitasking" or multithreading"? Does anyone have a code examples or hints/...
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:56 am
- Forum: Feature Proposals
- Topic: Automatic Code generation for Database interface function
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1845
Automatic Code generation for Database interface function
Greetings, The GUI development provides a lot of features to speed up the development process, but not so on a comparable level for (or using) the Database. I have a DB with 15 main tables and about 40+ lookup-tables that should be displayed via drop-down-boxes or pop-up selection interfaces within ...
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:38 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Event: "New file in folder"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6891
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:49 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Event: "New file in folder"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6891
Event: "New file in folder"
Greeting, I am new to revolution. so, my apologies if this is a stupid question: I need to create an event as soon as a new file has been written in a specific directory (content written and file closed). Is there any other approach than having a function that is looking periodically (means every 1 ...