Hey David, If you have a local DNS you could setup a subdomain for the production IP and edit your windows hosts file to override it to point locally...
Tracy mentioned FlashVars, that's a real easy way. You've help me enough in the world of 4D so I'll ping something over if you need it... Cheers, Nick On 22 February 2010 02:00, David Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been writing some small programs that use HTTPService calls to > fetch data from a back-end. During testing, I'm using 127.0.0.1 or an > IP address on my subnet. When I deploy, I update the IP address in > service definitions to the right external address and build the app. > Or at least I mean to. It's all too easy to accidentally change the > addresses for internal testing and then forget to switch them back > before building. > > Is there a best practice or simple strategy for putting the IP address > somewhere outside of the source code that it can easily be edited > without a rebuild? > > Thanks for any advice. > >
