--- Gordon Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I was wondering if some kind soul might enlighten me > on a couple of > points... > > I'm running the latest RR 2.5 build, with a Studio > license (for both > Mac and Windows platforms). > > > First Item: > > If I try to connect to a Valentina database using > the revdb_connect > function from my stack while running in the RR > development environment, > I get the error message "revdberr, invalid database > type". > > But if I go ahead and create a stand-alone > application, it works just > fine. > > I tried using the revSetDatabaseDriverPath to each > of the following > values in turn (when running in the development > environment on Mac OS > X) and it didn't help: > > /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components > /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global > environment > /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global > environment/database_drivers > /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global > environment/database_drivers/MacOSX > /Applications/Revolution 2.5/components/global > environment/database_drivers/MacOSX/VXCMD_macho >
The good news you have for us is that it does run fine in a standalone, which would suggest that something is amiss in the way Rev was bundled up for distribution. Please bugzilla this so the RunRev team can investigate and fix it. > > Second Item: > > It seems like you have to connect to a pre-existing > Valentina file, one > that was created with the Valentina application. Is > there any way to > have the RR application create one "on the fly" if > it doesn't exist. > No, there isn't -- a design decision made by Paradigma Software. What you _can_ do, however, is make an empty database, read it as a binfile and put it into a custyom property, which you can then use as a template to create a new database file. > Many thanks! > > Gordon Tillman > Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
