More crash info.

[Gunnar Swan]

Valentina has an ODBC connection mechanism.
If you are dealing with Excel ... then you're in luck.

5/4/03 5:24:12 PM, Zav - Alex Zavatone <zavpublic at mac.com> wrote:

>>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.
>>
>>>>
>>>>    OpenDataBase(myDB, myDBPath,1) -- CREATE DATABASE FROM SCRATCH
>>>
>>>The above line instantly crashes Director if Valentina has
>>>(mistakenly or on purpose) not been inited.
>>>
>>
>>
>>>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.
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Best Regards,
Gunnar Swan
http://www.PracticeToPass.Com