Perhaps put it in the Resources of the Component. Makes it a bit more hidden.
The alternative is to have it saved someplace entirely. But then that makes the
auto updating of the files a bit more challenging.
Dani
> On Aug 21, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Chip Scheide <4d_o...@pghrepository.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks
>
> that is basically what i was in the process of doing.
> a method to run in 'On Shut Down', which (when the component is not
> compiled) gets the code of the method, and writes to a text file - but
> in the database folder of the component.
>
> The resource folder gets shared to clients, and there is no reason for
> a client to have this source code.
> Chip
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:38:05 -0600, Dani Beaubien wrote:
>> I have had to do this. I store a copy of the methods I need in a
>> folder in the Resources folder.
>>
>> Only downside is that the code is outside of the structure so the
>> maintenance is a bit more effort. You could add a bit of code to the
>> On Exit method on the component that updates the copy of the method
>> on disk from the method in 4D. That helps to make maintenance a bit
>> easier.
>>
>> Dani
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 21, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
>>> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have written code which injects (creates) needed methods in a host
>>> database.
>>> The code for injecting works interpretedly, I was just testing the
>>> component compiled, and ran into an error. I am getting the code of a
>>> method in the component, and then injecting it into the host.
>>> METHOD GET CODE("Methodname";$Text)
>>> METHOD SET CODE("Methodname";$Text;*)
>>>
>>> And of course, once the component is compiled, I can no longer GET the
>>> method's code (duh!).
>>>
>>> So, anyone who is doing this, how are you going about storing the code
>>> to inject?
>>> - written to a text file?
>>> - in a data file --problematic for a component
>>> - ???
>>>
>>> Thanks
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