please consider voting for report #2783 in quality center which calls for typed variables (an example being for passing parameters to externals) http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 Best regards François
Le 8 mars 2012 à 19:48, Paul D. DeRocco a écrit : >> From: Pete >> >> I guess the first thing I'm trying to ascertain is if it will >> be possible to call the C API's directly from LC or if there >> will have to be some intermediate external glue that sits >> between LC and the SQLite C API. > > I haven't written an external since Rev 3.5, but I don't think anything > fundamental has changed. Yes, you have to write a wrapper layer, because > everything called from LiveCode has to accept arguments and return results > as null-terminated ASCII strings. So you spend a lot of time converting > between decimal ASCII and binary, and so forth. (If current LC has advanced > beyond that, I'd be interested to hear.) But like I said, it's just > busywork, and on modern machines it's not so slow as to be a problem. > > -- > > Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco > Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode