"Andy Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Hello All,
>
> I must be having a dumba@! attack this week but I just can't get this code
> to work. I keep getting a "Bad DBRef" error from debug roms in POSE. What
> the heck am I missing here??
>
> TIA,
>
> Andy
>
> Code as follows:
>
>
> static DmOpenRef gDataBase;
> #define kDBName "Drugs-IVRT"
> #define kDBCreator 'IVRT'
> #define kDBType 'Drgs'
>
>
> static Err AppStart(void)
> {
> Err error = 0;
>
> //open database
> gDataBase = DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator (kDBType, kDBCreator,
> dmModeReadWrite);
>
> if (!gDataBase) //if it is not created. Create it.
> {
> error = DmCreateDatabase (0, kDBName, kDBCreator, kDBType,
false);
> ErrFatalDisplayIf(error, "Could not create new database.");
>
> gDataBase = DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator (kDBType, kDBCreator,
> dmModeReadWrite);
> ErrFatalDisplayIf(error, "Could open newly created database.");
>
> if (gDataBase)
> {
> InitDrugs();
> }
> }
>
> Code clipped here...........
>
> return errNone;
> }
>
>
If InitDrugs is defined in another file then the statically scoped variable
will be invisible. Static variables/procedures are only visible in their own
files.
Peter
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