Mark Stanton wrote:
I think that that would be an extremely bad idea.
Why take something that's currently still really marginal and then
marginalise it even further?
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...
Perhaps because it would not make it any worse than it is now. The
changes I propose are to do what is already done when connecting to a
database using HSQLDB 2.8: have the database files in a separate
selected folder instead of the .odb file. Forms, queries, and reports
would remain in it. Most of the necessary code already exists.
When creating a new database, a person would see very little
difference from now. Create new database would be selected as now. An
additional step having the person select the folder to keep the database
files or create the folder. Then the third step would be the same:
register the database, select the name for the .odb file, and where to
save it. The .odb will contain the location of the database files as now.
It would require another wizard to convert the embedded databases
to the new system. It would move the database folder of the .odb file to
a selected location renaming the database folder to the person's
choosing. The new location for the files would be written in the .odb
files as is done presently when connecting to an external data source.
--Dan
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