Things may have changed with the upcoming 4.0, but my experience
with 3.0 was that the define function only allows literals in
constant assignments.
This has definitely changed. In v4 you can use any valid expression
in a constant definition.
What would be nice is to have some kind of library specific
conditional where I could test if I was running on development or
production
#IF (Some condition)
define (BCRHOST;"bcr.mysite.com")
define (ECRHOST;"ecr..mysite.com")
define (TTSHOST;"tts.mysite.com")
define (ERRHOST;"www.mysite.com")
#ELSE
define (BCRHOST;"bcr.dev.mysite.com")
define (ECRHOST;"ecr.dev.mysite.com")
define (TTSHOST;"tts.dev.mysite.com")
define (ERRHOST;"www.dev.mysite.com")
#END IF
Because define won't make an assignment based on an expression I
can't do this:
define (BCRHOST;choose
(sometest;"bcr.dev.mysite.com";"bcr.mysite.com"))
Has anyone else had to deal with this situation and if so how did
you solve it?
The way I deal with this is I create separate libraries for
development and production with defines that set the correct values
for each. Then in On Application Start I include the appropriate
library. You should be able to tell if you are running on production
or development based on the IP or something like that.
In v4 I deferred the running of On Application Startup so that the
shell is completely initialized and you can examine <>A4D_HostAddr
and <>A4D_HostPort to determine if you are running on a development
or production machine.
Regards,
Aparajita
Victory-Heart Productions
www.aparajitaworld.com
"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoylibrary.com
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