Re: But what's the question? (was: RB clear winner in speed

2004-04-21 Thread Norman Winn
Monte Goulding wrote: We can't change the fact that RB has a faster substring searcher than Rev I am glad this comment has appeared. Not that I want to judge the tool I use on a single test but because I felt doubts of being part of something where those deeply involved didn't come up out with c

Re: REV, RB, SC speed test, Latest results

2004-04-20 Thread Norman Winn
e such a lot of optimisation to produce the best results? Are not the 'out of the box' solutions i.e. those that will be produced by the average user, a fairer comparison? 3) On a more positive note, the possibilities of optimisation have revealed to me a rich programming environment underly

Interface ground to a halt

2004-04-12 Thread Norman Winn
Hi, I am actually getting somewhere. I managed to create a large bunch of buttons and get them cycling through the random colours. Fortified with my success I decided to script the creation of an array of rectangles, 62x25 of them. This took rather a long time. I have not yet worked out how t

Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-11 Thread Norman Winn
WANs. I believe I get live backups with the right DB. I have better version control and more fluid update procedure ... Norman Winn ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 7, Issue 55

2004-04-11 Thread Norman Winn
Reason numero uno: A rational number *is* a real number -- the former is a subset of the latter Is 1/3 the same as 0.333. (0.333 recurring)? Squaring 1/3 = 1/9. What does squaring 0.. give? It is a long while since I did my mathematical studies, so I could be wrong. However, my memory is t

Variables

2004-04-11 Thread Norman Winn
Hi, I am having trouble with stuff If I say: put button ID 1004 into gVar it appears to be accepted. So why can't I use the variable in the same way I use the button? Why do I want to do this? I am hoping to have a two-dimensional array of buttons so that, instead of referring to each button

A beginner's journey

2004-04-09 Thread Norman Winn
Hello again, I have received such good response, both on and off list, from my initial 'renegade from Filemaker' post that I am encouraged to continue my journey into RR even though I have not yet made much progress. If it is acceptable to the list I'd like to provide feedback of my learning e

Re: Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-08 Thread Norman Winn
Hi, Thanks for all the replies. The URLs given mean I have quite a lot of studying to do before being able to add much to the debate. A couple of replies off-list have suggested I make my needs more clear. 1) Current solution has about 15 users accessing stuff from FM server. 2) Solution is not

Hello from a Filemaker renegade

2004-04-06 Thread Norman Winn
s, plug-ins, tool-sets to handle complex relationships, entity diagrams, data validation? 4. Icing on the cake? Has anyone already handled converting and documented it? Thank you for attention and for a lively, open forum, Norman Winn ___ use-revolu