[V4MD] Intermittent setMedia

[Elias.]

Scott,

I have been trying to remember what happened with the problem we had 
(2+ years ago)...basically, very tight code writing member.media to a 
blob...we could detect the problem by comparing cast member size in 
Director with Blob data size in Valentina - if they differed by more 
than n% (don't remember how much) then we re-wrote that record...adding 
a short (10 millisecond) delay seemed to allow it to catch up (no 
issues after these 2 steps taken)

HTH


On 13/05/2004, at 12:54 AM, Scott Runkel wrote:

>>> Why not put RTF of member into field ?
>>
>> Hyperlink data is not preserved via RTF. Try it. And HTML hardly 
>> works at
> all --
>> formatting gets all off, fonts change, and hyperlinks go away.
>>
>>> If you put the member into blob, you are putting binary into blob.
>>
>> I don't grasp your point here -- yes, it's putting binary into blob. 
>> Doesn't
>> BLOB stand for Binary Large Object?
>
> I want to elaborate a bit further here. The 2nd paragraph of the V4MD 
> Reference
> states that you can use Valentina to manage "...any type of media that 
> Director
> can store in its members." Ruslan -- or anyone -- is there some better 
> way to
> store Director's #Text members, complete with all formatting, 
> hyperlinks, HTML,
> RTF, image, and other attributes that #Text members contain? Is there 
> some
> secret that I'm missing? In fact, is there *any* other way to store a 
> #Text
> member, other than BLOB, without breaking it apart into RTF, HTML, and 
> its
> hyperlinks data and then recompositing them later? I want to be doing 
> what makes
> sense, and when BLOB works for member.media, it works perfectly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott Runkel
> Director of Technology
> Hypix Media, Inc.
> 503-722-2123
>
>
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Elias.

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