gmane.comp.lang.active4d.devel

Re: My 'for each' is broken. Or at least myunderstanding is.

Thomas DeMeo — 2008-08-20T19:46:29

Hi, Sorry about my last post. I just checked and for each does support arrays too. I've just never used it that way. Tom On Aug 20, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Michael Check wrote:

Re: My 'for each' is broken. Or at least myunderstanding is.

Thomas DeMeo — 2008-08-20T19:35:59

Hi, For each is for iterating through collections, not arrays. Tom On Aug 20, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Michael Check wrote:

My 'for each' is broken. Or at least myunderstanding is.

Michael Check — 2008-08-20T19:25:29

Using A4D 4.5r1 with 4D 2004.5 I've been staring at this way too long. Can anyone see an obvious reason why the for each below does not work the way the for loop does? CODE writebr(concat(" "; 'Records found:'; string(size of array(account_AT)))) if(size of array(account_AT)>0) c_longint($idx) c_text($value) for each (account_AT; $value; $idx) writebr('Account: %1%' % $value) writebr('Password: %1%' % password_AT{$idx}) end for each writebr for ($idx; 1; size of array(account_AT)) writebr('Account: %1%' % account_AT{$idx}) writebr('Password: %1%' % password_AT{$idx}) end for end if RESULTS Records found: 3 Account: 11111 Password: password Account: 11111 Password: password Account: 22222 Password: password Account: 33333 Password: password Thanks, Michael Check

Re: A4D 4.5 Demo Firefox img

Steve Alex — 2008-08-18T20:23:29

Forget all below! Stupid mistake - somehow turned off automatic load of images when I was tweaking popup blocker for Oracle. Steve On Aug 18, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Steve Alex wrote:

A4D 4.5 Demo Firefox img

Steve Alex — 2008-08-18T20:01:44

I can't seem to get images to load from the web-static directory in Firefox (2.0.0.16). Works fine in Safari, IE. CSS loads fine, just images. I've been converting a site to 4.5 and used much of the structure of the demo. All was working fine in Safari. Went to IE and of course I had to tweak the CSS, but when I went to Firefox, images flat won't load. This is in either is CSS or with an img tag. Can anyone else confirm this? I can do xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/images/ myimage.jpg and it works fine. Think I even got it to cache it for one screen load. Steve Alex

Starting ODBC project with A4D

Michael Check — 2008-08-18T19:22:59

We have a database that we've created to be exclusively accessed via A4D; there is no other user interface. Part of the data that we need to collect is read-only in a SQL Svr on the LAN. So we need to, for instance, authenticate users via a MS SQL db table, but they will be mostly using the data in 4D. So we have ODBC access to the MS SQL Svr, which we can query from 4D, but my question is the best way to access the queries and data via A4D. Should we write a bunch of 4D wrapper methods that we can call from our qry_selectMany.a4d files (we're using fusebox)? One real bummer about that is using rowsets, which we want to do. I'm not sure I can see how to get the data into a rowset unless I first pull it via ODBC, populate arrays, then push into rowsets. That's a lot of work, ugh. And so then, should the wrappers be written in A4D, mimicing the 4D ODBC commands, and calling the 'Execute 4D Command' from with the A4D method? Or write the wrappers in 4D, calling them as methoids from A4D. I know I coul

Custom error page and processing

Peter Schumacher — 2008-08-17T16:25:36

Hi, I've setup a custom error page (for syntax errors and so) and in case of an error it displays. Fine. But as soon as I want to do something like <% write("Hello World")%> I get the good old error display (native) of A4D showing my test error. A4D 4.0.3b39 4D 2004.7 build 3 hotfix 2 MacOSX 10.5.4 The test error is generated so: <% write($Test) %> $Test is not defined. My custom error page shows up. OK, but any A4D code I put in there displays "write($Test)" as error and not my custom page. Frankly, I have no idea where to lock for something. :) Mit freundlichen Grüßen [4D-Consulting.com]eK, Wiesbaden Peter Schumacher -------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.4D-Consulting.com/ FreeCall: 0800-434 636 7 Tel.: 0611-9406.850 - Fax: 0611-9406.744 4D-Consulting.com eK - Scharnhorststr. 36 - 65195 Wiesbaden HR Wiesbaden: HRA 4867

v4.5 key files

Aparajita Fishman — 2008-08-15T22:55:00

Greetings, The bug with key files has been resolved. The key files were fine, it was the routine that retrieved license info that had a bug. So I will have to release v4.5r2 to ensure 'get license info' works correctly. Regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

Re: [ANN] Active4D v4.5r1

Aparajita Fishman — 2008-08-14T19:19:44

Have you seen http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/licensing.php? That spells it out. Yes, that is the idea. 0.0.x (bugfix) releases are still free. Even with Premium Support, there may still be an upgrade fee for 0.x releases. Each client would require a new key and would be required to pay any upgrade fee in the future. For v4.5 the licenses are entitled to an upgrade if they are up to date. Regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

Re: [ANN] Active4D v4.5r1

Michael Kaye — 2008-08-14T18:52:58

Aparajita, I'm sorry but I'm still confused about the new products/options. Here is my setup: 1) 4D Developer with 1 in house client, and multiple external clients 2) I no longer buy or have registered to me any Active4D Deployment Licenses. It is up to each client to renew the license Questions: 1) What do I get with premium support? 2) Assuming I buy premium Support for myself as a devloper, can I use its "benefits" to support ALL my clients 3) Are .x release still free? 4) What constitutes a chargeable release? is the charge to me the developer or to the client i.e. would each client be required to order a new deployment key to use this version? Let me know. Thanks, Michael. On 7 Aug 2008, at 19:28, Aparajita Fishman wrote:

Sorry for the delay...

Aparajita Fishman — 2008-08-14T15:27:36

Hi, If you ordered new deployments or Premium Support in the past few days, thank you! I just discovered there is a critical bug in my key file generator, any v4.5 key file you have won't give you unlimited time. I'm working on a fix and will send you a new one as soon as it's ready. If you have not yet received a key file, please be patient while I fix this problem. Regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

Re: A4D as a general-purpose scripting engine

Oliver Brodwolf — 2008-08-13T22:22:55

Hello I do a lot of things with Active4D, which will not creating "normal" html-Pages. For this I have one 4D-Process, and a Table [Task]. In the Task-Records there I say for example: Call with a period of 600 Second A4D Execute with a file-path, and a pseudo-request-String. 600, /service/parseWeatherdata.a4d, maxData=12&lang=de For debugging, I call this Scripts via web-browser. Also I have a view Apple-Script request, which are making normal http- Request , ore check if the Webserver is still working ok, to the 4d- Webserver periodic. Applescript with http-Request property checkInterval : 600 -- Sekunden property checkURL : "service.myserver.ch/admin/ saveRecordToTextFile.a4d?reqMode=applescript" property waitonStartup : 1 -- Sekunden property waitonQuit : 15 -- Sekunden property waitonRequest : 300 -- Sekunden

A4D & SproutCore??

Todd Freese — 2008-08-13T21:31:40

Has anyone played with or are using the SproutCore AJAX frameworks? Apple gave it a huge endorsement at WWDC and said it is heavy used in the new Mobile Me. (Problems aside!) Todd Freese The Filmworkers Club

A4D as a general-purpose scripting engine

Steve Alex — 2008-08-13T15:28:46

There is a line in the Active4D reference manual that I'm not sure what is the correct method of implementation. Uses for Direct Execution Direct execution is useful in cases where you are not responding to an HTTP request. In fact, you could easily use Active4D as a general-purpose scripting engine by executing ﬁles or blocks of text that are nothing but Active4D code. You need only enclose the scripts in the <% %> tags. We've tried this over the years with mixed results. Now that we're upgrading I need to ask a couple questions. We are currently and probably will continue to run Active4D on a client. There are some things I created in Active4D that it sure would be nice if we could call them from the 4D (GUI or process). While this worked on our development server (probably because I had an expired license on it) it did not work on the real server since Active4D is not running on the server. For instance, we created a cron process on the 4D server and tried to execute some Acti

Re: Active4d 4.5 and AJAX

Michael Check — 2008-08-12T23:01:08

Hmm, yes, if only I had access... :) On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Aparajita Fishman public.gmane.org> wrote:

Re: Active4d 4.5 and AJAX

Aparajita Fishman — 2008-08-12T22:20:21

Sounds like a good topic for the Premium Support forum... Regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

Re: Active4d 4.5 and AJAX

Michael Check — 2008-08-12T21:34:51

Don't beat yourself up over it. Maybe you could teach me. :) I still don't really know how to use it effectively (or at all, really) We use Firefox with Firebug and HttpFox. But I would like to know how to use the console if it would help figure out some of a4d's magical internals. Thanks, Michael Check

Active4D v4.5 demo

Aparajita Fishman — 2008-08-12T17:36:28

Greetings, It has come to my attention that a file was missing from the Active4D v4.5 demo. This has been fixed. If you downloaded the demo before 1:30pm New York time (EDT), please download it again. https://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/download.php Thank you! Regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

Re: Active4d 4.5 and AJAX

Steve Alex — 2008-08-12T17:09:26

Just a followup on my excursion in Active4D 4.5 and ajax On Aug 10, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Steve Alex wrote: It turns out that all was not fine. One of my ajax calls called a function "addCI". I started to get an error: Fusebox core: The Fusebox framework could not find the circuit you requested: addCI. Took a little while to figure out what broke. All of my ajax calls usa a URL xxx.aidt.edu/ajax.a4d? action=what&stuff=things. Where in the above call action=addCI. The keyword there is the _query variable action. I also stored the variable in a hidden field named "action" for some reason. In fusebox.conf.a4i in the demo define(fuseaction; "action") I changed all my uses of the variable named "action" to "ajaxAction" and it solved the problem. Guess I was colliding with the action being set in "on request" One good thing out of this is (hate to admit this after about 4 years) I learned how to use "write to console" to help debugging. Steve

Active4d 4.5 and AJAX

Steve Alex — 2008-08-10T23:28:44

First off, I really like some of what I've seen. Played with the demo and like the pretty URLs and the Controllers/Models/Views approach. Thought it was so neat I tried to convert an existing application using the demo structure. With just a little moving stuff around, I found that ALMOST everything worked - that is until I got to my few ajax calls. Just to save some other people time, thought I'd relay my experience. First of when I said convert, I mean more than just Active4D 4.5. I decided to get rid of a bunch of crappy CSS I inherited and some other crap. I started with the pure Demo and just moved some stuff around getting it to work. Moved a couple circuits to the Controllers/Models/ Views approach, but then started trying to clean up the CSS. When I got to my first ajax call, it failed with an error of an unknown fusebox circuit. Took me a long time to figure out that in my old Active4d.ini it executed all *.a4d files. The demo is set just to index.a4d and image.a4d. Afte

Re: Active4D v4.5r1

Aparajita Fishman — 2008-08-10T20:58:29

Yes, I forgot to change the version number. Regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org