Hi Al, Thanks. I was actually about to just say screw it, and re think it.
My idea was to just set an application wide variable called 'root' (and any other similar variable paths) and declare it that way. -Jason On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes it bothers me when I ask a technical question, and instead of > getting a technical answer, I get something like "Why are you doing it like > X? Just do Y instead!" > > Having said that, I shall now practice this very irritant myself: > > I'm not a huge fan of mappings, and have yet to encounter a situation where > they are the only possible solution to a programming dilemma. It seems the > intention is to account for different environments - with different storage > paths... > > But I have (ini) settings files and application-scope parameters to address > that, and it just seems easier for others and myself to maintain code - that > plainly states when /#somethingLikeThis#/ is a variable, as opposed to > /www/somethingLikeThis/. > > It's kinda like those darn virtual directories and sys-links to me: Using > them for anything but the last resort makes me feel dirty, and I curse the > developer before me who used them abundantly - without noting so somewhere. > Grrr. > > Thanks. I feel better. Now @Jason, if you can post a self-contained package > of code that worked on an older version - I'll try it on some of my > different systems here for you! > > Al > > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
