Done. Although it looks like this goes back to 2005 so doesn't seem like it's likley to get fixed after all this time. Pete
2012/3/8 François Chaplais <[email protected]> > please consider voting for report #2783 in quality center which calls for > typed variables (an example being for passing parameters to externals) > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 > Best regards > François > > Le 8 mars 2012 à 19:48, Paul D. DeRocco a écrit : > > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ 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
