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Game Engine Scripting Languages

I am trying to build out a useful 3d game engine out of the Ogre3d rendering engine for mocking up some of the ideas i have come up with and have come to a bit of a crossroads. There are a number of scripting languages that are available and i was wondering if there were one or two that were vetted and had a proper following. LUA and S...

Import from Excel to MySQL database using SQuirrel

I have an Excel spreadsheet with a few thousand entries in it. I want to import the table into a MySQL 4 database (that's what I'm given). I am using SQuirrel for GUI access to the database, which is being hosted remotely. Is there a way to load the columns from the spreadsheet (which I can name according to the column names in the dat...

Symbols not found error when linking iPhone app in Xcode

Whenever I try to compile my iPhone app which i am porting I get linking errors. The app uses a scripting language called Squirrel (to read the level files, fine by the SDK, no user input). I have linked all the libraries including libsquirrel.a. What am I doing wrong? (App is SuperTux, source code at supertux.lethargik.org for computer ...

Please recommend good reading about Squirrel

Please, share your favorite links on this language where one can learn the best of it. And also, please describe in few words the most important features of this language differing it form others languages like Lua. I just cannot understand why to reinvent another Lua/python/etc. Maybe I just missed something... But I like the idea of...

How can I store the result of a SQL query in a CSV file using Squirrel?

Version 3.0.3. It's a fairly large result-set, around 3 million rows. ...

Undefined method 'total_entries' after upgrading Rails 2.2.2 to 2.3.5

I am upgrading a Rails application from 2.2.2 to 2.3.5. The only remaining error is when I invoke total_entries for creating a jqgrid. Error: NoMethodError (undefined method `total_entries' for #<Array:0xbbe9ab0>) Code snippet: @route = Route.find( :all, :conditions => "id in (#{params[:id]})" ) { if params[:page].present? the...

Where in Squirrel SQL Client 3.1 can I create and excecute stored procedures (with Sybase)?

I am using Sybase and JDBC connection, Where in Squirrel SQL Client can I create and execute stored procedures? Do I need to install plugin for this? ...

How to react to stack unwinding when destructors are not supported by a language?

Suppose you have created an instance of a Window class. The window is shown to the user. Then, an exception is thrown, and reference to the instance is lost, but the window is still seen by the user because the instance still exists (it's just not referenced anymore). What to do in these circumstances? I'm specifically talking about th...