problem opening remote database

[Charles Yeomans]

Even after replacing the corrupt files, I was still encountering the 
same problem -- I could open the database, but it had 0 tables.  This 
problem I can reproduce, and it's interesting.

Here is my code:

   dim newDB as new VDatabase(serverAddress, userName, password)
   dim dbFile as new FolderItem("timedatabase")
   newDB.Open dbFIle

This looks like it should work, but it didn't.  The problem turns out 
to lie with dbFile.  When you create a new FolderItem in REALbasic like 
this, it assumes that the FolderItem is in the same directory as the 
application.  In that directory, I had a folder called "TimeDatabase".  
So the result, dbFile, was a FolderItem pointing to that directory.  I 
suspect that V4Rb looks at the FolderItem passed to Open, sees that it 
is a directory, and does something with that information.  But of 
course "timedatabase" is not a directory on the server machine.  
Renaming that directory on my machine cured the problem, and I was able 
to get a working VDatabase object.

It seems to me that the best solution is that VDatabase.Open should be 
overloaded to accept a String parameter for remote databases.  Given 
that VDatabase already has different constructors for local v. remote, 
I don't think that overloading Open and Create would take us too far 
away from the goal of a single codebase for working with local and 
remote databases.

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Charles Yeomans