on 9/23/02 8:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 9/23/02 5:32 AM, Peter McConachie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Catch1: >> In the past I was setting the externals property of the standalone each time >> it opened using its openStack handler. This appeared to work OK on 2.4.2. >> >> With 2.4.3 this definitely doesn't work. You must set the externals property >> in the source stack, save and quit before compiling the standalone. Same >> applies when running stack under MetaCard engine. >> > Yes- this appears to be a quirk of MetaCard 2.4.3. Of course this is also the > first release which *used* the externals property on MacOS. Note that this > property can contain multiple lines, in case you are working cross-platform.
So this is not problem of VXCMD... >> Place VXCMD_macho bundle in same folder as standalone.app. Setting externals >> property to "./VXCMD_macho" works as you suggested Brian. > >> Catch2: >> MetaCard 2.4.3 fileName property returns paths less the Drive designation >> ie >> 2.4.2 returns /Macintosh HD/Users/username/..../fileLastname >> 2.4.3 returns /Users/username/..../fileLastname >> >> VXCMD only works if database name is of form >> Macintosh HD:Users:username:....:dBase.vdb >> >> Anything else fails. Brians' VXCMD crashes application - Ruslans' doesn't >> and returns error. >> >> The problem is that under 2.4.3 there seems to be no way to unambiguously >> add the drive - apart from querying the drives() and trying multiple cases. >> All file existence checking now works without the drive designation. >> > Ruslan: may be we can add check in VXCMD for POSIX-style paths on MacOS? Or > relative paths? > It is a small pain- VXCMD wants colon-delimited paths with the volume name, > and MetaCard gives "/" delimited paths with no volume name (i.e. > "/Users/yennie/Desktop/MyDatabase"). Yes, I think this is important not only for VXCMD, but for any macho based product of Valentina. -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin [ I feel the need...the need for speed ] ------------------------------------------------------------- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.paradigmasoft.com To subscribe to the Valentina mail list send a letter to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard