[V4MD] Long Long

[Edwin Rose]

Hi,

If you have only a few dates that need really big numbers, you could save
the fields as two numbers, the original number and a "multiplier" which is
usually one but could be another long.  Then write a few wrapper routines to
load/save/format as strings and voila -- a kludge.

--Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruslan Zasukhin [mailto:sunshine at public.kherson.ua]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:16 AM
To: valentina at lists.macserve.net
Subject: Re: [V4MD] Long Long


on 5/14/03 10:56 AM, Giacomo Antonelli at giacomo at nativedreams.com wrote:

> I'm working on a historical CD-Rom, i have to write in my DB some events
> with their date, some of them ha as date -4.600.000.000 year ago, but if i
> use a Long field Valentina cut it to -460.000.000. I want to know what
kind
> of field i have to use to record -4.600.000.000.

Okay, for such big values you really need Long Long 8 bytes.

And if you will use C++ or Java then no problems.
But REALbasic and Director are not able handle such big integers.

Or you want to say that in Director MX you can store

    v = -4.600.000.000

And director can show you this value in e.g. Debugger ?
Anybody can confirm this ?

IS this new feature of Director MX ?

As I know there was no new XDK for Xtra developers.
So I afraid I will not be able add this into Xtra for now.


Giacomo, I remember that REALbasic developers are able work with Long Long
field of Valentina using strings!

You need use SetString / GetString


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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