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Jan, thank you so very, very much for your help. It would have certainly taken me many, many days of frustrating testing and research to try and overcome these problems on my own. Your guidance has been absolutely invaluable.

I have posted a bug/feature request on the Quality Control Centre, in ...

Jan, thank you very much for the fantastic advice, which will save me many hours of hair-pulling! :)

A couple of questions, if I may:

1) On which message handlers do you recommend these should be placed? Would it be:
* in a 'startup' handler - to catch the case where the user is double-clicking a ...

Hi all,

I am trying to put together a standalone app that will be able to save 2 (or more) different types of documents - neither of which will be in native rev stack format.

I have different scripts setup to open each type of document, and they work fine when the application is launched, and the ...

PHP, Javascript, (+ the compulsory XHTML and CSS), and Ruby (with Ruby being my favourite by far). Occasionally have to dabble into C and Objective-C. And now, learning Revolution.

A little follow-up on my own question.

After a bit of searching, it seems that there is no built-in way - as yet - to do this in Revolution's Database Library. Ideally, the database should have a function like:
revLastInsertID(dbConnection[,tablename, idcolumnname])
This would return an integer ...

@trailboss: perhaps a relational database backend would be better suited for storing, searching and retrieving this data for you. There are free, open source alternatives which you can use with Revolution, and if your dataset is reasonably large, and your searches reasonably complex, then this may ...

Hi, all!

Right now I am trying to develop a database front-end to a simple accounts system. Ultimately, there will be 2 versions of the system: a single user, and a multiple-user version. For various reasons, SQLite will be used as the database backend for the single-user version, and PostgreSQL ...