Re: More on recursion...

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Kann
Sjoerd, thank you for the examples. Mike --- Sjoerd Op 't Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Kann wrote/ schreef: snip Recursion is one of those items like the ASCII chart that for some reason must be in all programming books. For what most of us are doing here it really is

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread David Bovill
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 23:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course now I just need a way to maintain some persistent memory (i.e. database cache). Any ideas? I can write globals to disk if needed, but I can't afford to re-create the database cache on every run of the script. Sounds like maybe

Sockets and Servers with Linux 2.4.3

2002-08-30 Thread David Bovill
Haven't tracked this down yet... but in moving a simple http server stack over to run under the Linux 2.4.3 engine - I get no connection. The same stack serves up files fine with the 2.4.2 MacOs PPC version. I note there have been some changes to the way datagram sockets work in 2.4.3: The

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Yennie
Can this be done by having MC running in the background *prior* to the cgi being called by the server - not sure how the os associated the script with the engine or whether it creates another process would like to though:) Unfortunately, no- the server will spawn a new cgi process for

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Yennie
With 2) is the idea to have the cgi script switch on each call to another process? Yup. I figure if I spawn many cgi scripts but they all have to talk to the same long-running process, then I've lost all of the benefits of multiple processes anyway. So yeah- I'm trying to get multiple processes

hide/show menu buttons

2002-08-30 Thread Shari
Nobody posted last time around, and I really want a solution for this, so let me sweeten the pot a little... The first person who comes up with a solution for this one that allows me to do what I want to do, a cross-platform solution (in other words, no XCMD's etc.), will get a free

Dreamboat Challenge

2002-08-30 Thread Shari
PS -- I meant to call my last post the Dreamboat Challenge... Who wants to by my next dreamboat? :-) -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
Hi Guys, Am I right that in 4.3 version we have -- MetaCard PPC (Classic app) -- MetaCard.app (for X, mach-0) I.e we do not have CARBON version of MC to be used on 9 ? -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Yennie
Correct. 2.4.2 is the last version with a CFM-based Carbon version. FWIW, there is also a Darwin engine on X. Brian Am I right that in 4.3 version we have -- MetaCard PPC (Classic app) -- MetaCard.app (for X, mach-0) I.e we do not have CARBON version of MC to be used on 9 ?

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
on 8/31/02 0:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. 2.4.2 is the last version with a CFM-based Carbon version. Okay, I ask because for MC Classic we have use XFCN MC Carbon have use CODE resource MC Mach-o use bundle So does this means that externals based on

Re: VarBinary Errors

2002-08-30 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
on 8/28/02 2:25, Peter McConachie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter I know you ar busy on the Server and for this reason I've not been chasing you about errors as I find them. Currently I've had non-critical problems with the following: 1. Cannot add Method field to existing table

Re: hide/show menu buttons

2002-08-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/30/02 3:12 PM, Shari wrote: I want to hide/show menu buttons when entering a card. Is this just so that you can change the menus on the fly? I haven't tested either one, but I can think of a couple of things to try. First you could try just re-naming the button rather than hiding it,

Re: hide/show menu buttons

2002-08-30 Thread Shari
Is this just so that you can change the menus on the fly? I haven't tested either one, but I can think of a couple of things to try. First you could try just re-naming the button rather than hiding it, and resetting its contents to what the new menuitems should be. You'd need case statements

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Phil Davis
- Original Message - From: David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: Re: More CGI Stuff On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 16:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, no- the server will spawn a new cgi process for each request.

Re: More CGI Stuff

2002-08-30 Thread Ken Ray
FWIW, I believe Pierre Sahores explained a way to use PHP to manage sockets and enable backend use of MC as a long-running process. I think it's related to this thread. (Wherever that explanation is in the archives, maybe Ken Ray would consider adding it to his already excellent Developer