Request for new fields (V4RB)

[Scott Steinman]

Hi Ruslan,

I've just returned from the world of Java to REALbasic. I'm ready to 
start a new project that could use Valentina. After refreshing my 
memory by reading the manuals, I realized that the REALbasic version of 
Valentina could use a couple of improvements:

1. Databases could contain movies. Rather than having the programmer 
need to convert a movie to a String to store it in a VBLOB (and convert 
it back upon retrieval), I'd like to have a specialized VMovie field 
type (as you have with VPicture) to V4RB that would handle the 
conversion for the programmer? To make it cross-platform, the internal 
representation could be QuickTime since it's available for both Mac and 
Windows.

2. Why should VPictures be limited to PICT file format on the Mac and 
DIB on Windows when they are both stored with JPG compression in the 
database? Why not just make VPictures cross-platform by allowing the 
input and output of JPGs?

Thank you.

Scott B. Steinman, O.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.O.
Professor, Southern College of Optometry
Co-Chair, ASCO Informatics SIG
Chair, Open Source Purely-Graphical Programming Language Initiative 
(www.ospgli.org)
Author, "Visual Programming with Prograph CPX", Manning/Prentice-Hall, 
1995 (www.manning.com/steinman).
Author, "Foundations of Binocular Vision", McGraw-Hill, 2000 
(books.mcgraw-hill.com/cgi-bin/pbg/0838526705.html)
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