> From: Pete > > I guess the first thing I'm trying to ascertain is if it will > be possible to call the C API's directly from LC or if there > will have to be some intermediate external glue that sits > between LC and the SQLite C API.
I haven't written an external since Rev 3.5, but I don't think anything fundamental has changed. Yes, you have to write a wrapper layer, because everything called from LiveCode has to accept arguments and return results as null-terminated ASCII strings. So you spend a lot of time converting between decimal ASCII and binary, and so forth. (If current LC has advanced beyond that, I'd be interested to hear.) But like I said, it's just busywork, and on modern machines it's not so slow as to be a problem. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
