Bad Thing?

[Peter De Berdt]

On 20 Oct 2004, at 23:29, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> Is it a 'bad thing' to rename the fields in a VBaseObject inside of an 
> RB app?
>
> Example:
>
> Originally the fields were titled "this_fld", "that_fld", 
> "another_fld".
>
> I populated the database.
>
> Then I thought better of my naming convention and changed the fields 
> to be "fld_this", "fld_that", and "fld_another".
>
> Now I can't access the database anymore.
>
> Or was it something else I may have done?
>

Yep, you should have opened your database as a generic VDatabase first, 
then alter the table structure (i.e. rename the fields), then open it 
using your REALbasic VDatabase subclass.


Best regards

Peter De Berdt