Commands You Wish QB had...

[Dr_Davenstein]

You could just revers the RGB macro... unless you mean some other RGB... I only know the RGB for color though... I've yet to attempt a network game. :lol:

[Moneo]

Thanks Mystik,

It's nice to know that someone else is tuned-in to this kind of risk.

Last year I performed an audit on a large financial corporation's intranet applications written in ASP. Not only did they not have anything like Transaction Processing, but they didn't even know what it was. When I explained, they said that it could not be done in ASP. I don't know, I don't do ASP, but the fact remains that they have a high risk in their system. No wonder people say, "Ignorance is bliss."
*****

[MystikShadows]

lol yeah...what a saying indeed.

To the best of my knowledge there's two ways to do it in ASP.

The ADO object used to connect to the database should have a beginTrans method as well as a CommitTrans and RollBackTrans (or something similar). Although it works just as good as the other method, this one cause more internet traffic as you can imagine when a commit is summoned from the client's machine. This method basically means (more internet traffic load, but less server workload).

The other depends on the database they use. If i's SQL Server or MySQL or any SQL database capable of transaction processing, you can have the server perform the transaction by issueing a SQL BEGIN Transaction <TransactionName> and ROLLBACK <TransactionName> if there's an error or COMMIT <TransactionName> if all went well. This one, as you can imagine is less internet traffic as everything is executed on the server but a bigger server workload for each transaction.


If you talk to these people again ;-)

[Rattrapmax6]

3DSLOAD "filename.3ds", OGLListName

:lol:

[Moneo]

Thanks again, Mystik. I knew there had to be some solution.

Sad to say, they're not interested. I still talk to IT management there once in a while, so I'll mention your solution. Actually, they don't care. That's why they outsource all the programming. They figure that way they don't have to bother thinking about such things. "Out of sight, out of mind." They mostly operate in the mode of, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."

That reminds me. Years ago, a manager at IBM said that torpedoes line to me. I responded with, "A stitch in time, saves nine." LOL
*****

[Dr_Davenstein]

3DSLOAD "filename.3ds", OGLListName

I'm working on something, but it's only for .lwo(Lightwave).

[Rattrapmax6]

3DSLOAD "filename.3ds", OGLListName

I'm working on something, but it's only for .lwo(Lightwave).

I'm working on something, but it's only for .an8(anim8or). :wink:

[Dr_Davenstein]

Cool! Then we'll have three format loaders translated to FB.

[MystikShadows]

Thanks again, Mystik. I knew there had to be some solution.

Sad to say, they're not interested. I still talk to IT management there once in a while, so I'll mention your solution. Actually, they don't care. That's why they outsource all the programming. They figure that way they don't have to bother thinking about such things. "Out of sight, out of mind." They mostly operate in the mode of, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."

That reminds me. Years ago, a manager at IBM said that torpedoes line to me. I responded with, "A stitch in time, saves nine." LOL
*****

LOL life's famous quotes huh? Back when it was popular, I told a few enterprises that their code was like a box of chocolates, I never knew what I was gonna get!" lol...they knew exactly what I was talking about ;-).

[Rattrapmax6]

LOL life's famous quotes huh? Back when it was popular, I told a few enterprises that their code was like a box of chocolates, I never knew what I was gonna get!" lol...they knew exactly what I was talking about ;-).

I like:
"Beter off to jack it up and run a new one under it."

:lol: But, I've only ever heard my dad use it....

@Dr_D: I was attempting a quote war, but yeah, I have the broken beginings of a parser for it somewhere.... :lol: :wink: