Valentina DB locks under Mac

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/29/03 8:30 PM, X Y at xyzabc1010 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am trying have N machines access a single Valentina
> DB to perform select/insert functions. Within each
> function, I use openDatabase and closeDatabase once
> each operation is performed.
> 
> I checked that for every open there is a close so that
> the db does not get locked. I ran the program under
> several machines to see how Valentina would perform
> under a multi-user environment. Everything was great.
> When running 2 machines under Windows, everything goes
> as plan. However, when I run the program under a Mac
> and a Window simultaneously, after several iterations
> the Mac version locks the db. I then need to exit out
> of Director to be able to gain access to the db on a
> different machine.

You run directly from Director ?
May be try run RELEASE version from Projector.

> I then tried to run the program on the Mac alone, w/o
> running it simultaneously on another window machine).
> I stopped the program and the db did not lock. Hence,
> I was able to run the program on a Windows machine. I
> concluded that I was closing the db correctly and
> exiting the program correctly and setting all the
> necessary objects to void.
> 
> It seems as though simultaneously running the program
> on the Mac and Windows is causing the problem.

This can be problems with settings of your network.

Keith is our guru on this TIP. I don't know if he have try run mix MAC and
windows, he use REALbasic.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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