Connecting to Valentina using revdb_connect

Gordon Tillman got at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 28 15:01:14 EDT 2004


Thanks for the feedback Jan!

I have added bug 2243 to the bugzilla database.

--gordon

On Sep 28, 2004, at 13:40, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> --- 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.



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