[VSDK] Index path

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/22/04 3:09 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? ;-)

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