Newbie alert - Creating databases in Lingo

[David Wood]

Hi Zav

>I'm currently trying to get my brain around the process of creating 
>a database solely in Lingo and don't understand why files are needed 
>to describe the database.  Hopefully, I can figure out how to create 
>my first database completely in Lingo.

The general plan of attack is something like this...

Valentina = xtra("VDataBase").new() -- NEW INSTANCE OF THE XTRA
CreateDataBase(Valentina,"someFilePath",1) -- CREATE DATABASE FROM SCRATCH
myBaseObjectRef = MakeNewBaseObject(Valentina,"name Of Table") -- MAKE A TABLE

...then your addField stuff.
eg
thisField = AddField(Valentina, myBaseObjectRef,"Username",#kTypeString,10)

Is this any help?

There's a listServe thing that's reasonably active. The guys that 
develop Valentina actively participate. Info is here...
http://listserv.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina

Cheers

David



>
>The database structure would consist of one table and 3 string 
>fields, username, password, and hint.
>
>I'm going to go through the archives but could anyone point me in 
>the right direction to get going?  I've got the docs right in front 
>of me for reference.
>
>Thanks, this has been a major stopping point for me in my current project.
>--
>- Zav
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