Database Encryption

[andu]

--On Saturday, January 04, 2003 20:45:14 +0200 Ruslan Zasukhin 
<sunshine at public.kherson.ua> wrote:

> on 1/4/03 3:13 PM, andu at undo at cloud9.net wrote:
>
> Hi Andu,
>
>>> But problem is that MC 2.4.2 on some incredible reason returns UNIX
>>> paths on OS X ?????????????????????????
>>
>> What is so incredible about mc returning unix path on OSX, isn't OSX
>> UNIX? Besides, this behavior is the same on all platforms and has never
>> changed.
>
> I agree when we speak about MC 2.4.3 Macho.
>
> But MC 2.4.2 Carbon -- which is claimed to use CARBON API,
> Which claim to support CARBON plugins,
> Must work with MacOS Classic paths.
>
> Otherwise plugin, (now we speak about Valentina) expect to work with
> CARBON API, which DO NOT have unix paths. So why I need deal with unix
> paths in CARBON plugin ???
>
> Can you explain me?
>
> And again, all rest products like REALbasic and Director Carbon, work
> correctly here. They return MacOS paths.
>
> Okay, I see that this will be never changed in MetaCard.
> So this is private headache of MetaCard developers.

Metacard has used unix path on mac since it was first ported (version 2.0 I 
think) and it never bothered me but keep in mind that the only time this 
conflicts with the mac path(:) is when it interacts with another app in 
such a way that it needs to pass or get a path, which is rare. The 
conversion function is only 2 lines so it was never an issue, on the 
contrary, it is more convenient for cross platform development.

>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> In Director I can simply put cursor on function, click button, and wow,
>>> I am on that function.
>>>
>>> Well, I just frustrated. Again and again, in case I get project from
>>> developer to test MetaCard, is nightmare for me.
>>
>> Sounds to me as if you use Metacard only accidentally, why do you expect
>> it to feel familiar? I felt the same as you do first (and last) time I
>> opened Director.
>
> Almost true, but Director DO HAVE that features, and with time I can find
> them and use, MetaCard do NOT have them.

Correct but metacard has an OK button for closing the script editor without 
any confirmation and you didn't have the time to figure it out;-).

>
>> And remember, people choose Metacard for the language not IDE, most
>> newbies have a hard time with the IDE until they discover the superior
>> pleasure of using the language and the power of it.
>
> But agree, that if add great IDE to great language you will be more happy?
> :-)

Too late now, I'm just as hard to satisfy as you are;-).

>
> May be Revolution solve this problem ?
> Just no time to look on it deeply...
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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Regards, Andu Novac