MySQL access from loadbang.net MXJ library

Some months ago I announced a little MXJ system for creating a  
completely embedded SQL database inside Max, saving data to text  
files in Max’s search path. The forum thread is here:

http://www.cycling74.com/forums/
index.phpt=msg&goto=70245&rid=0&S=217fa547f718feeab95599d961307cd1&srch=
hsqldb#msg_70245

(except that this now seems to bork out the Cycling ’74 site – and I  
don’t know why it’s putting session information into the URL – so  
you’ll probably have to do a forum search for “HSQLDB”).

I’ve just modified the package so that it can talk to external MySQL  
databases as well as embedded HSQLDB ones, and I’ve build an example  
MXJ object which takes SQL statements directly, basically serving the  
same purpose as Bill Orcutt’s MySQL external.

Details, instructions, examples, downloads at:

http://www.loadbang.net/space/Software/net.loadbang-SQL/MySQL

This should work on OS X and Windows XP. (I’ve not tested this  
version on XP, but the previous HSQLDB version worked.) I would hope  
it would work unmodified on a forthcoming Max/MSP for Mac/Intel.

I’ve not thrashed this release very much – I add the MySQL support  
this afternoon after having problems with Bill’s MySQL external – but  
it’s now running as the backbone of a sound installation I’m  
preparing for next week, and seems to be pretty happy.

— N.

   nick rothwell — composition, systems, performance — http://
www.cassiel.com

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