[VSDK] Index path

[Eric Forget]

> on 12/3/03 9:22 AM, Eric Forget at forgete at cafederic.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
>> Would you mind to add a member function to VDK_DataBase so we can set a
>> different path for the index (.ind) file? It may looks like this:
>> 
>> FBL_EXP virtual void SetIndexPath(const char* inIndexFullPath);
>> 
>> The problem is this. I will ship my application with a built database w/o
>> the index file, to save download. However, once installed, it is not
>> guaranteed that the user of my application will have the write permission to
>> the application package. So, I see 2 solutions:
>> 
>> 1) Write a tool that I call with the authentication service just to create
>> the index. 
>> 
>> 2) I place the index somewhere I'm sure every user have the write permission
>> (i.e. Inside the Home tree).
>> 
>> I prefer 2), since I think also it is better to not alter the application
>> package once on a user machine. Also, the user may need to ask another user
>> to come an authenticate him/herself just for that.
>> 
>> For you, it should not be too difficult, since it is only at the opening of
>> the index file it makes a difference?
> 
> I will try.

Have you tried? ;-)

Eric

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