Thanks Malte - that seems like a good solution. My issues have mainly been with the server itself rather than with MySQL.
Terry... On 30/09/2010, at 7:12 AM, "Malte Pfaff-Brill" <revolut...@derbrill.de> wrote: > Hi Terry, > > had the same problem. I settled to ping the IP first before trying to connect > to the DB: > > switch > case "mac" is in the platform > get shell("ping -q -o -c3 -t3"&&tIP) > if the result is not empty then > put the result into tError > end if > break > case "win" is in the platform > set the hideConsoleWindows to true > local tShell > put ("ping -n 1 -w 100 "&tIP) into tShell > get shell(tShell) > if the result is not empty then > put the result into tError > end if > break > end switch > > if tError is not empty then > -- can not connect to server > end if > > Even though you can not be sure, that mySQL is really up and running, you > will at least know if the server is there. Hope that helps a little. > > Cheers, > > Malte_______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution