No problem. I think it's a good idea to have, so that you can have a text
file outside of source control, that maintains different settings between
your test and production servers. Right now, I'm doing a very hackish
condition on the current machine name.

Doug

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Aparajita Fishman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The error message is exactly correct; a4d.utils.parseConfig doesn't exist!
> In fact, I can't find any trace of it in the source code. I have no idea
> what happened to it, or why I so thoroughly documented something that
> doesn't exist. My apologies!
>
> > On Jun 26, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Doug Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I thought I had already posted this email, but apparently it didn't go
> > through. :-/
> >
> > I'm trying to read a config file, as shown in the documentation, within
> > Active4D's "On Application Start" method:
> >
> > $path := join paths(default directory(*); "mail.ini")
> > if(file exists($path))
> >   $config := a4d.utils.parseConfig($path)
> >   globals{"mail.host"}:=$config{"host"}
> >   log message("email host: "+$config{"host"})
> >   // a4d.utils.setSMTPHost($config{"host"})
> >   // log message('SMTP host set to $config{"host"}')
> >   globals{"mail.to"} := $config{"to"}
> >   log message("Mail.ini full path: "+$path)
> > else
> >   log message('The email config file: $path does not exist.';true)
> > end if
> >
> > This didn't work. It errors out saying:
> >
> > Active4D: [error] The specified method does not exist:
> > /Users/dhall/Documents/AIDTdb/Active4D/Active4D.a4l, method "Active4D.On
> > Application Start", line 43
> >
> > Even if I refactor the above part into a Library method
> > (main.read_email_config) and call that from within On Application Start,
> it
> > gives a similar error:
> >
> > Active4D: [error] The specified method does not exist:
> > /Users/dhall/Documents/AIDTdb/weblib/main.a4l, method
> > "main.read_email_config", line 438
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated,
> > Doug Hall
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