Re: REALdb Problem

[Charles Yeomans <yeomans at desuetude dot com>]

You're not doing anything wrong.  This is a problem with the 
REALDatabase class, I think.  I've REALbugged it, and I suggest that you 
do the same.
Charles Yeomans

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 08:23  AM, Andrew Schox wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've decided to try using a REALdatabase for a small project I'm 
> working on.
> I'm having problems opening a REALdatabase file (which I previously 
> created
> with another RB project). I can however open this file by dragging it 
> into
> an RB project and I can see the data structure as well as the data.
>
> My code is as follows (excuse the line wraps):
>
>   dim dbFile as folderItem
>   dim db as realdatabase
>
>   db = new realdatabase //after this line, the error property is true 
> and
> the error code is -1 (which means?). There is no error message
>   dbFile = GetFolderItem("myDB") //after this, dbFile points to a valid
> realdb file
>   db.DatabaseFile = dbFile //after this, db points to the dbFile in its
> DatabaseFile property. Error code is still -1
>   If db.error then
>     MsgBox (str(db.errorcode) + db.errormessage) // Error -1 displayed
>   else
>     // I'd like to have done some stuff here
>     db.close
>   end if
>
> Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Needless to say, the online docs 
> don't
> appear to be up to date. I have successfully used Valentina as well as a
> load of other server databases in the past without any problems.
>
> I'm using 4.5.1 fc3 (4.5 crashed everytime I tried to view the 
> databasefile
> property of the database in the debugger).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew.
>
>
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