On 10/24/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:14 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote: > > > It says that string is meant to be human-readable, but it ignores > > the > > > current locale, and it makes assumptions about the numeric > > formatting > > > wanted. So it's no use for actually showing to a human. I suggest > > that > > > it be marked as "useful only for debugging, and not for showing > > values > > > in your user interface." > > > > > > > It is also very usefull when you want to save a value in an (XML for > > example) file and you need to be able to read it back even if the > > locale has changed. > > OK. I think we can call that "serialization", in a canonical > locale-independent human-readable format. > > Both uses should be mentioned in the documentation. And the > documentation should clearly state that it's not for showing in your > application's UI.
I'll make that clear in the doc. > > > If you want to take into account the locale, then you should use the > > GdaDataHandler which both takes into account the locale and any syntax > > specific to a DBMS. GdaDataHandler objects are created and managed by > > each provider and you can use them just after having obtained a > > pointer to one using gda_server_provider_get_data_handler_gtype() or > > gda_server_provider_get_data_handler_dbms(). > > Is there documentation, or an example, of this somewhere? > There is only the gtk-doc generated documentation, section "Data conversions"; the GdaDataHandler object is fairly easy to use. Cheers, Vivien _______________________________________________ gnome-db-list mailing list gnome-db-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list
