Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features? // SET PROPERTY

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 7:39 PM, Robert Brenstein at rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

>>> -- be able to query ANY parameters/options that are settable by us or
>>>  by kernel, including things like file mode, file block size, mac file
>>>  type/create, file extensions.
>> 
>> You mean by SQL?
>> No promise. WE have start add SQL command SET PROPERTY, GET PROPERTY,
>> But on the hold now.
> 
> Direct API will do. Actually non-SQL way is better for now. Those
> things are needed only under special circumstances.
> 
>>> -- be able to store single global/persistent values easily (using
>>>  system tables instead of having to maintain my own bo)
>> 
>> Close to SET PROPERTY.
> 
> Property of what? I must have missed this topic somehow. But if they
> allow me to maintain single global values, I am game. But make them
> available in direct API as well.

I have think about 

    GLOBAL PROPERTIES
    INI FILE properties
    database scope
    Table scope
    Field scope

And again note, from one side I'd prefer not extend direct API.
It is very hard synchronies it for many languages.

On the other hand on this way a lots of power.


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