DB Access in standalones

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> I am building a standalone for OS X 10.2.6 (Rev v.
> 2.0.2, Commercial 
> Enterprise license). The app uses database calls to
> a mysql database on 
> my file server. In the development environment it
> works perfectly. I 
> built an OS X distribution, taking care to include
> the db libraries. 
> However, the standalone does not successfully
> contact the database. 
> Instead I get a revdberr, invalid database type. (I
> chose to include 
> error messages during distribution building.
> 
> One puzzling thing: The standalone gets built with
> two folders in the 
> same folder as the application package:
> database_drivers and 
> revdb.bundle. I thought this was strange, because
> I'd understood that 
> the db libraries were supposed to be put into the
> app package. So I 
> moved them into the package. Now when I launch the
> app and try to 
> connect to the database, it still fails, but I don't
> get the error 
> message.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Devin Asay
> 

Hi Devin,

You might want to check out the Transcript dictionary
entry for the 'revSetDatabaseDriverPath' command.
If that doesn't cut it, insert an 'answer' with all
your connection parameters to make sure they're up to
sniff.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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