getting started using Valentina

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/2/08 1:27 AM, "Garth Catterall-Heart" <garth at productivity-software.com>
wrote:

Hi Garth,

> I'm having trouble getting started using Valentina v2 with Revolution
> v2.8.1 on Mac OS10.4.10. I have tried several installations, so I now
> have various files scattered all over my drive. I followed the
> following advice:
> 
>> 1.  put folder dbvalentina2 into Database Drivers folder
>> which is located in my externals folder.
>> 
>> 2. added the line Valentina2,dbvalentina2 to the text file
>> Database Drivers.txt which is in my Database Drivers folder.
>> 
>> 3. put folder v4rev.bundle into my Externals folder which is
>> located in my Revolution 2.9.0 folder.
>> 
>> 4. added the line Valentina2,v4rev.bundle to the text file
>> Externals.txt which is in my Externals folder.

1) I do not catch why you do these steps manually?
    We have isntaller.Rev stack which do this job automatically.

2) Did you see this WIKI pages about installation?

http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paradigma:public:en:documen
tation:v4rev:howto:databases_from_zero:installing_valentina

And 

http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paradigma:public:en:documen
tation:v4rev:manual:installation

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Links from here:
http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=paradigma:public:en:documen
tation:v4rev:v4rev

 
> When I relaunched Revolution, I created a new stack, added a field,
> and used Database Query Builder to establish a connection, which
> seemed to be successful.

Aha, so V4REV plugin was found and registered successful?

The best way to check this to open V4REV Examples.rev project, and try to
run it. If it works fine, then we know Revolution see and can use Valentina.

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> When I tried to switch to Record Set though,
> Revolution crashed.
> 
> I'm not quite sure I have a good installation or what to try next.

First of all check our examples and tutorial.

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> TestProject reports all but one test passes (it does not seem to
> report which one failed).

Ok, although TestProject is mainly for our team to test API of V4REV.
Although it can be used by developers to see what and how we have use.
 

> I wish I had some better documentation to work with. I need to know
> what files I need in the development environment and what files I
> need for distribution with my application. Also, I have yet to figure
> out if I need to purchase extra copies to distribute or if there is
> no charge for including Valentina with my programs.

Valentina is royalty free if we talk about LOCAL db apps.
 
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> In the online documentation in the section on Setting up External
> References it says to set the externals of this stack to  "V4REV_2
> \V4REV_win.dll" &cr& "V4REV_2/V4REV_Macho" but I do not find either
> of these files on my computer. Is this for a newer version? Is there
> some other documentation I should be working with?

This is deprecated from REV 2.6
  And I remember this online docs underline it.  DEPRECATED.


Well, it seems to me, problem only qith Query Builder.

My advice is -- in fact most developers DO NOT use it.
    If you want some GUI for quick tests of SQL, just use our
    Valentina Studio. It is much more powerful of Rev db tools.

And in your REV application you need just use
    a) native Valentina API
    b) OR RBDB API
    c) OR MIX both 
    d) OR use third party db wrapper -- DB Library from Trevor Devore



-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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