How to open a db with read only?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/9/08 8:33 PM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" <toolbook at kestner.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> probably a very simple question:
> 
> I have a Valentina (V4Rev2) db which I need for read only. But with every
> close of my App the db file is updated with a new "timestamp" (I don't write
> anything to the db from my app). The issue is, that Windows Vista now
> virtualises the db, because it is located in the program files structure and
> Vista thinks I want to write to the program files dir, what it doesn't like.
> What I am doing to open is just (beside some other statements):
> 
>     get VDatabase_Open( gDBRef, tDbPath )
> 
> when closing:
> 
>     get VDatabase_Close( gDBRef )
> 
>     get VDatabase_Destructor( gDBRef )
> 
>     get Valentina_ShutDown()
> 
> I didn't find any "open readonly". How can I prevent Valentina to update the
> db when closing and so preventing Vista to virtualize it?

Hi Tiemo,

Can you set in the Windows Property of File the read only flag?

Then Valentina will respect it


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Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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