Roger, Very resourceful of you to discover, not just the typo, but the correction.
It is indeed a livecode file so: go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/TextToSpeech.livecode" Jim Hurley > > Message: 14 > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:49:24 -0500 > From: Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: Point at which speaking is stopped? and ANN: "Text to > Speech" > Message-ID: > <CAAT6EXOjqBcFw+xNMOo6GwWO=+8oKJjUXNBJSiE+G=46xsf...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > It is a .livecode file: > > go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/TextToSpeech.livecode" > > > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> I get "No such card" >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Dec 26, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: >> >>> Roger, >>> >>> It is even better for proofreading. >>> >>> I have put my Text to Speech up on the web. Run this in the message box. >>> >>> go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/TextToSpeech.rev" >>> >>> Jim Hurley >>> >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 15 > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:50:28 -0800 > From: Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: revOpenDatabase Problem > Message-ID: > <CABx6j9=crfd2bruwkm0gvd3ypy3vwckgq5fepffxh5+arjn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > All good stuff but none of it tells me if I've opened an sqlite database > :-) You may have missed the post about opening the file as a regular file > and checking the first 16 bytes - that's the solution I used, seems to work > just great. > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > >> After opening it, and inside a try/catch statement just use select TRUE as >> connected and get the query as a string. If it throws an error you know >> something is wrong. >> >> One thing I like to do in database driven apps is create handlers called >> dbopen, dbclose, dbIdle isConnected. In those handlers I put the database >> commands inside try/catch constructs, and return false when I fail. Before >> any query I will call isConnected, which attempts to do some arbitrary >> thing with the database, like select TRUE as connected, which will return 1 >> if it succeeds and throw an error if it doesn't. When I am done I call >> dbIdle which closes the connection (good practice because the server is >> going to disconnect you anyway after a certain amount of time). >> >> The Open function attempts a connection to the database with the options >> the user entered on a setup card. If successful, I set a global I can check >> in the future to make sure I successfully connected on startup. If the >> global is false, then I prevent any interaction with the app, sometimes >> quitting (if not in development). >> >> By doing this I don't have to recode error handling every place I need to >> query. isConnected, upon failing will exit to top after alerting the user >> that something is wrong. The close handler will close all cursors and >> database handlers, but this is not strictly necessary, as dbIdle. >> >> Since using sqlYoga, this is all rather moot anyway, as this kind of >> functionality is built into it. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Dec 26, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Pete wrote: >> >>> Using revOpenDatabase to open an sqlite database using a file that is not >>> an sqlite database return an integer as if the database was successfully >>> opened. Any subsequent db accesses fail of course but I wonder why >>> revOpenDatabase doesn't return an error? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pete >>> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> > > > -- > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > End of use-livecode Digest, Vol 99, Issue 50 > ******************************************** _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode