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Here’s an announcement you multiplayer game coders may find interesting…

I’m writing a MMOSG (massively multiplayer online strategy game) and in the process of doing so I’ve created a few really neat tools for online games programmers. I’ve decided to release my 'online game match-making' DLL for ...

What's the easiest way to mimick the Blitz Object/Handle functions in PB? I'm thinking it will use mem pointers but I'm not sure. I really appreciate your help.

I had all that stuff in my code in various arrangements and with/without misc other commands. I'll try to determine what I was doing wrong.

This works. Thanks Va!n

Can someone post the code for the fewest lines required to load .bmp into a sprite and show it on the screen? This seems so much more difficult that it should be.

Thanks guys

Aparently the two dbase admin tools I'm trying (DBManager and IBEasy) both create database with -forced- quoted identifiers. No way to turn this off. This means you MUST put dblquotes ( " ) around every table name and every fieldname. UNLESS, apparently, you create all your table names and all your ...

I'll keep posting here so you guys can enjoy my suffering as I learn Firebird/Interbase. Perhaps someone will find this post later and have an easier time than I am...

Ok, I figured out the "autoincrement" field crap. You have to create a "generator", then you have to create a trigger that uses the ...

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I'm having such a ridiculous hard time working with these FB admin tools. I've been using MSSQL and Enterprise manager for well over four years now and nothing was ever this difficult. The simplest tasks just not understandable. I've been wrestling with just the dumbest stuff for over three ...

I've tried every variation of GUI checkbox/dropdown/etc setting in two different Firebird database admin tools (IBEasy and DBManager) and I just f'ing CAN'T create a bigint primary key field that autoincrements. Please help before I throw myself down the stairs.

What did you end up doing here? I'm trying to do this myself now.

Ok that's cool. I'm looking at DBManager right now. If I can't make that work, I'll setup the FB Server and try IBEasy again.

Thanks for the help!

IBEasy won't start. I get a Windows error alert. The quickstart help in IBEasy only talk about installing the FB Server app then installing and running IBEasy and setting up the "first user". Does IBEasy work with the embeded FB?

The list of FB database admin tools is fairly big. Which is the best?

I'm guessing to use this PB I'd have to include/install the FB ODBC driver along with my app. Or could I load the .DLL as a library in PB?

@Colboy

How many FBSQL files will I have to pack in with my application installer? Is it easy to redist?

blueb wrote:I still believe that Firebird SQL is the best "totally" free DBMS system around (It does stored procedures). You can even get the source code, if you desire.

http://www.firebirdsql.org


--Bob

Thank you Bob!!!!

FBSQL looks veeeeeerry interesting. I'm reading up now...