Connecting to Valentina using revdb_connect

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Gordon Tillman <got at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I was wondering if some kind soul might enlighten me
> on a couple of 
> points...
> 
> I'm running the latest RR 2.5 build, with a Studio
> license (for both 
> Mac and Windows platforms).
> 
> 
> First Item:
> 
> If I try to connect to a Valentina database using
> the revdb_connect 
> function from my stack while running in the RR
> development environment, 
> I get the error message "revdberr, invalid database
> type".
> 
> But if I go ahead and create a stand-alone
> application, it works just 
> fine.
> 
> I tried using the revSetDatabaseDriverPath to each 
> of the following 
> values in turn (when running in the development
> environment on Mac OS 
> X) and it didn't help:
> 
> /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components
> /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global
> environment
> /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global 
> environment/database_drivers
> /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global 
> environment/database_drivers/MacOSX
> /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global 
> environment/database_drivers/MacOSX/VXCMD_macho
> 

The good news you have for us is that it does run fine
in a standalone, which would suggest that something is
amiss in the way Rev was bundled up for distribution.

Please bugzilla this so the RunRev team can
investigate and fix it.

> 
> Second Item:
> 
> It seems like you have to connect to a pre-existing
> Valentina file, one 
> that was created with the Valentina application.  Is
> there any way to 
> have the RR application create one "on the fly" if
> it doesn't exist.
> 

No, there isn't -- a design decision made by Paradigma
Software. What you _can_ do, however, is make an empty
database, read it as a binfile and put it into a
custyom property, which you can then use as a template
to create a new database file.

> Many thanks!
> 
> Gordon Tillman
> 

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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

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