Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 12.02.2015 19:09, schrieb Bruce Cunningham: I'm looking for some advice and maybe some code examples for a project I'm starting. I'm building an embedded device with an ARM based System-On-Module (similar to an Rpi, but in an sodimm form factor). Thanks to some great help from members

Re: [Gambas-user] Rpi 2

2015-02-13 Thread Alexie
Hi Mike, Compiling Gambas3 on a Pi / Pi2 is a long task, so for the DomotiGa project we created pre-compiled packages of Gambas 3.6.2 (and when new version are released, we will update ofcourse). You can download/install as follows: $ wget -O - https://domotiga.nl/apt/public.gpg.key | sudo

[Gambas-user] Rpi2

2015-02-13 Thread Mike Crean
I have these errors when I install gambas3 Any one help please. make  install-data-hookmake[5]: Entering directory '/home/pi/gambas3-3.6.2/gb.gtk/src'Installing the gb.gtk control icons if needed...Creating the information files for gb.gtk component... make[5]: Leaving directory

[Gambas-user] Rpi2

2015-02-13 Thread Mike Crean
I have these errors when I install gambas3 Any one help please. make  install-data-hookmake[5]: Entering directory '/home/pi/gambas3-3.6.2/gb.gtk/src'Installing the gb.gtk control icons if needed...Creating the information files for gb.gtk component... make[5]: Leaving directory

[Gambas-user] Creating a trasparent DrawingArea...

2015-02-13 Thread Ru Vuott
Hello, I'ld like to superimpose two DrawingArea: the **upper** DrawingArea has to have a transparent background, so I can see the drawings of both DrawingAreas. How can I do it ? Regards Vuott -- Dive into the World

Re: [Gambas-user] Creating a trasparent DrawingArea...

2015-02-13 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
Can you just create two transparent pictures and put them on the drawing area? Or is there some specific reason for two drawing areas? It just doesn't sound very clean solution. Jussi On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Ru Vuott vu...@yahoo.it wrote: Hello, I'ld like to superimpose two

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Caveat
If you're going to use a database to communicate between 2 separate programs, be sure to set the transaction isolation to READ-COMITTED (good for MySQL, ymmv), otherwise you won't see updates made by another process which can lead to some frustrating and confusing mismatches between what you

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Lewis Balentine
Forgive me for poking my nose in where my profound ignorance indicates I should not but Would not a direct solution be: 1) Have the resident program ALLOC a section of ram 2) Save the address as part of a unique file name (i.e. ADRxx.ADR where x is the address) 3) Pass the required

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread T Lee Davidson
Bruce, Named pipes do indeed require a node on the file system. You might need to look into shared memory; or maybe DBUS might suit your needs. Lee __ Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. On 02/13/2015 03:35 PM, Bruce Cunningham wrote: I was considering

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Bruce Cunningham
Caveat, Thanks for the info. I'm a little concerned about using a disk based database because the disk is flash, which has a limited number of write cycles. Even with wear-leveling, I would eventually kill parts of the flash. I don't want these things dropping dead in the field after a

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Tobias Boege
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Lewis Balentine wrote: On 02/13/2015 02:35 PM, Bruce Cunningham wrote: Caveat, Thanks for the info. I'm a little concerned about using a disk based database because the disk is flash, which has a limited number of write cycles. Even with wear-leveling, I

[Gambas-user] Official name change notification!

2015-02-13 Thread adamn...@gmail.com
Seeing as there are now two many Bruce's here, which has been known to confuse me, I am officially changing my name to bruce. cheers bruce -- B Bruen adamn...@gnail.com (sort of) -- Dive into the World of Parallel

Re: [Gambas-user] Rpi 2

2015-02-13 Thread Willy Raets
On vr, 2015-02-13 at 09:09 +0100, Alexie wrote: Hi Mike, Compiling Gambas3 on a Pi / Pi2 is a long task, so for the DomotiGa project we created pre-compiled packages of Gambas 3.6.2 (and when new version are released, we will update ofcourse). You can download/install as follows: $

Re: [Gambas-user] Official name change notification!

2015-02-13 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 02/13/2015 09:05 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote: Le 14/02/2015 02:38, adamn...@gmail.com a écrit : Seeing as there are now two many Bruce's here, which has been known to confuse me, I am officially changing my name to bruce. cheers bruce :-) Not sure that it will work for me... Maybe this

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Dimitris Anogiatis
Hey Bruce, In addition to all the good suggestions everyone is throwing in the problem, you could use a CouchDB database on a different server and just connect to it with a normal http connection if you're worried about file hits on the sd card. Gambas supports JSON and the httpclient component

Re: [Gambas-user] Official name change notification!

2015-02-13 Thread adamn...@gmail.com
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:02:49 -0500 Kevin Fishburne kevinfishbu...@eightvirtues.com wrote: On 02/13/2015 09:05 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote: Le 14/02/2015 02:38, adamn...@gmail.com a écrit : Seeing as there are now two many Bruce's here, which has been known to confuse me, I am officially

Re: [Gambas-user] Official name change notification!

2015-02-13 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 14/02/2015 02:38, adamn...@gmail.com a écrit : Seeing as there are now two many Bruce's here, which has been known to confuse me, I am officially changing my name to bruce. cheers bruce :-) Not sure that it will work for me... Maybe this is the reason why we invented the full name

Re: [Gambas-user] A couple of questions about building web / cgi applications

2015-02-13 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 13/02/2015 21:35, Bruce Cunningham a écrit : Caveat, Thanks for the info. I'm a little concerned about using a disk based database because the disk is flash, which has a limited number of write cycles. Even with wear-leveling, I would eventually kill parts of the flash. I don't want