[VXMCD] beginner questions

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 2/9/03 2:33 PM, Rodney Tamblyn at rodneytamblyn at paradise.net.nz wrote:

Hi Rodney,

> Just getting started with Valentina VXMCD (using Metacard)...
> 
> Some questions:
> 1) init cachesize.  If I'm intending to store and retrieve a lot of
> images (and some small movies)  from the database, I presume setting
> this to a reasonable size (1? 2? Mb)  make sense.  I will be doing some
> binary read/write operations to BLOBs which may involve up to 1/2 MB of
> data at a time.

Optimal cache size for Valentina 1.x is from 4MB to 20MB

> 2) Debugging.  The documentation mentions using DCon to capture
> Valentina debug messages. This appears to be an old OS9 debugging
> console.  What's the recommended solution when developing under OSX?
> (Or do messages get directed to the OSX console?)

The same debug messages, on X will be send to Console.app
So just open it and watch.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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