VXCMD 1.x and Revolution 2.1

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/9/05 12:48 AM, "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:

Hi Trevor,

> On May 8, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>> 
>> I have start develop Valentina for Revolution 2.0
>> But still cannot even make it work.
>> 
>> So I have decide try to run latest VXCMD.
>> Revolution 2.1 already contains inside VXCMD_Macho.
>> So I have just open our example,
>> Correct external to point that VXCMD_Macho.
>> Run and it not works.
>> 
>> What I do not correctly ?
>> 
>> As I understand many VXCMD developers use Revolution 2.1.
>> 
>> Please advice, I do not see what is going on and where is problem.
> 
> Ruslan,
> 
> Revolution has two ways of using Valentina.  The VXCMD_Macho that you
> see included with Revolution is for use with revDB (db abstraction
> layer in Revolution).  Looking at the package contents it appears
> that they use the C or C++ API rather than the VXCMD in order to work
> with revDB.  This means you can't use the Valentina VXCMD call.

Actually VXCMD which we produce also should work as RevDB,
We have together develop API with Revolution guys.

And VXCMD which Revolution have on default also should support standard
VXCMD 1.x functions.

Strange...

> To test the using the VXMD just put the VXCMD in your Revolution folder
> and set the externals property of your stack:
> 
> set the externals of stack "MyStack" to "VXCMD_Macho_MC"
> 
> Quit Revolution and restart so the externals are properly loaded
> (there are others ways to do this, this is the simplest).
> 
> Now if you type:
> 
> put the externalPackages of stack "MyStack"
> 
> in the message box you should see "Valentina XCMD" or something like
> that.  You can now use the Valentina VXCMD calls in your stack with
> the latest version.

Ok thank you, I will try.

 
>> -------------
>> 3) Tuviah,
>> 
>> One more question. I do not see how external do get unicode strings.
>> I see that comes Mcstring, it is of char*.
>> And I assume this is not UTF8
>> 
>> So how Revolution talk to externals with unicode ?
> 
> As Tuviah mentioned, you will have to talk to the support guys at
> Revolution about this.  The revDB database layer does support unicode
> but as for externals I'm not sure.  I haven't had to use Unicode in
> programming externals.

Ok,


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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