DB Access in standalones

Ron rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp
Tue Aug 19 20:34:01 EDT 2003


Hi guys

I've been following this thread with interest since I use val with RR. I
call vxcmd directly, not through the RR db libraries. However, like Jacque,
I have also experienced difficulties with setting the external at startup.
It may very well be my lack of coding ability, but it works in the ide and
doesn't work in a standalone, so I think it may be something else. I've
tried to get it to happen consistently so that I can report it.

I guess I can't add anything constructive here except that there may be
loading issues with vxcmd as well as with the supplied libraries.

Ron

> 
>> When I connect directly to the Valentina XCMD using Valentina calls,
>> everything works fine for me; I recommend that until this situation on
>> DB access in standalones is fixed/resolved by RunRev that those who need
>> to work with Valentina just call the XCMD directly.
> 
> That's been my experience too, using Valentina in MetaCard.
> Unfortunately those stacks that start out in Revolution have no access
> to the same external. Rev ships with an unusual combination of drivers
> in one folder and the externals in a separate .bundle (on OS X). I
> couldn't find any way to use them that way (I tried to use MC to build a
> standalone with them, but I couldn't get it to work.) I believe that the
> downloadable external at Valentina's site has the drivers built into the
> same file, while Rev splits them out separately.
> 
> Actually some of the main info I want to know from the Rev team is what
> that .bundle does, what the drivers do, what are their required relative
> locations on disk, and what relationship one has with the other.




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