Close all open databases -- VDataBase_Open()

[William Humphrey]

I told you. Doesn't it remind you of early days installing php and MySQL on Apache?

Brevity and errors in this email probably the result of being sent by a mobile device. 

> On Oct 14, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi William,
> 
> That's interesting. I will play with it tomorrow. I need to check if your examples will allow me to write a script that closes all databases. For debugging, it is really useful to be able to close all databases and close a connection before opening a new one.
> 
> It strikes me how utterly complicated all this is, very much contradicting the spirit of LiveCode.
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>> On 10/14/2013 20:33, william humphrey wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:26 PM, william humphrey
>> <bill at bluewatermaritime.com <mailto:bill at bluewatermaritime.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    get Valentina_Database( inIntIndex )
>> 
>> 
>> OK - I just solved it.
>> 
>> Use *put Valentina_DatabaseCount()*
>> *( Remember no Valentina functions work in the message box you have to
>> make a button that cals it from a script)*
>> *
>> *
>> Then after you do the database count you will have a number, say 2
>> 
>> Then use
>> 
>> *put* Valentina_Database(1) into dbRefFirstDatabase
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> *put* Valentina_Database(2) dbRefFirstDatabase
>> 
>> 
>> You will have the dbRef you need to close those databases. If you want
>> to know the name of the database from the dbRef you must use yet another
>> function (in case you don't want to close all the databases).
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
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