More crash info.

[Zav - Alex Zavatone]

>You'll have to swallow this pill to continue with Valentina.
>Zav. I am preparing a movie that will demonstrate abstration of 
>Valentina to overcome this.
>If you make a mistake between the steps I previously sent, you will crash.
>Valentina is not the only database to crash on a failure to open correctly.
>There are LOTS.
>
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>>>    OpenDataBase(myDB, myDBPath,1) -- CREATE DATABASE FROM SCRATCH
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>>The above line instantly crashes Director if Valentina has
>>(mistakenly or on purpose) not been inited.
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>>Valentina should exit GRACEFULLY from such a condition.
>
>Agreed. But again, the key is to watch for the situation that might 
>be an issue.
>Never call Valentina without an init.
>Using parent scripts ... and abstracting ... solves the problem.

The deal is that if you correctly shut down the database AS 
RECOMMENDED, and you mistakenly enter a valentina command from the 
message window, Director will die.

This is not good.  There should be a trap for this.  4 weeks man.  4 
freakin weekends spent trying to get a BASIC database running.  If I 
didn't have to deal with thousands of records (8 meg excel file), I 
would have written my own with property lists and lingo and my own 
populate/select API.

Maybe that's not a bad idea.  I really don't want to have to do that.

-- 
- Zav
Lost in the translation.