[C SDK] Reading values from cursor

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 11/6/03 10:34 AM, Olaf Schmidtmann at os at brainbits.net wrote:

>> Guys, C langauge IS fast.
> 
> I know - I am not completey dumb. C is fast and the Valentina code is surely
> fast, too. And that is the reason WHY I always try to let her do as much as
> possible. The problem is that it seems that the callbacks are slowed down.
> It works like this:
> 
> Flash ("hey, gimme the ref of field 1 in table xy")
> Screenweaver ("wait, I try to tell this this strange VCSDK.DLL, I'll give
> you a call")
> ValentinaDLL ("here you go sucker: 385638568") [text in slowmotion to enable
> you to read this]
> Screenweaver ("thanks", "hey, flash callback, here is your data")
> Flash ("thanks, I will put the data here")
> Flash (some other instance "wow, we've got new data, let's get some
> more")...

:-)

Well, actually Director -> Xtra chain is just one step shorter.

 
> Besides from being childisch, that was what it takes to get just one field
> reference. Valentina might be a fast bitch but she is sitting in a slow bus
> (Screenweaver) and tries to reach Flash city.

Yes, this is true. It is very important how faster is wrapper.
For example REALbasic is faster of Director.

> I cannot access anything Valentina offers directly - everything needs to be
> passed with the Screenweaver wrapper. Watching the console I could nearly
> write the data down myself - and that's hust a little exaggerated.
> 
> 
>> You even cannot image self how much work in done in
>> background in MM director or in Valentina :-)
>> 
>> So do not think this will be slow.
> 
> Again: I really do not think that Valentina is the problem here.

I understand this.

> Also, I'd like to thank you very much for your help which was - as always -
> just great. I would not have come so far with this even if I consider it a
> failure (technically).

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