Re: Multi-user stack question

2007-02-09 Thread Jim Schaubeck
Thanks everyone for helping with this! I didn't know the first thing about databases but with your help, some reading and many hours of keyboard time, I ended up using mysql on a mac-mini. I must say...this program does rock! Did you ever just get darn proud of getting something

Re: Multi-user stack question

2006-12-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On 12/10/06, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I would say altSQLite would be a great choice for this app, Are you sure about this.? I was under the impression that altSQLite ( I guess soon to be revSQLite) is an embedded 'single instance' database. How would you propose to

Re: Multi-user stack question

2006-12-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 9, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: contact Trevor Devore for further details about his lib. Trevor had the lib up online but they changed domain names and the old link doesn't work anymore. The link to the developer section where I keep Revolution related stuff will be

Re: Multi-user stack question

2006-12-09 Thread Jim Schaubeck
Mark, Thanks for responding! How do I get RunRev to be multi-user? (w/o using a DB) I started using mysql with Navicat to test and I found myself putting hours into figuring it out. If I could right a 100% RunRev app for everyone on my team that would be great. But, if I have to use a

Re: Multi-user stack question

2006-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hey, Jim, I've had many false starts with client/server databases in Xtalks since the early 90's. All of them had to talk through ODBC which was horrible. We bought an SQL database called Butler that almost worked, but crashed all the time. Eventually we (like everyone else) ended up with

Re: Multi-user stack question

2006-12-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Saturday, December 9, 2006, 8:48:30 AM, you wrote: How do I get RunRev to be multi-user? (w/o using a DB) Not easy. RunRev launches a new instance of a stack for each user, and everything's in memory until you quit. You'd need a real client-server configuration to do this. Rob Cozens has

Multi-user stack question

2006-12-08 Thread Jim Schaubeck
Folks, I'm writing a stack to build a database of customers for our Sales and System Engineering team. Will be much less than a couple thousand cards with about 100 or so various unique fields and pulldown buttons per card. I can do it easily with RunRev but I want the database or stack to

Re: Multi-user stack question

2006-12-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Friday, December 8, 2006, 8:42:08 PM, you wrote: Do I need to use a database (mysql,filemaker, etc) for this? You don't need to use a database for this, but for something that size I think you'll be happier with the result if you do. I have a smaller app that I just converted from being a