| Subject | Just in case I was the last to know |
| From | Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net> |
| Date | Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:48:19 -0400 |
| Newsgroups | dbase.getting-started |
Hey folks, Either I'm the last to know, or I've been missing some serious notes on what to do. I just spent time going through my 'Samples' directory, changing all the references to "DBASESAMPLES" to "Samples", as the in app BDE link never made the connect and it was throwing errors all over the place. I started looking because I just got the 3rd Edition of Ken's book from Amazon of the dBASE Book Plus: Companion, and was reading about some of the things, one of which was the discovery of the Lookup tables that Ken mentioned had been slipped in, with tables for Cities, States, etc. By the way Ken, royalties coming, but Amazon is a pain to review your stuff....as some FoxBase user was crying about your books not being advanced enough and Amazon wouldn't let me make a review since I had't supposedly spent enough in the last 12 months...but I just did, so that made no sense...anyway, I digress. Anyway, I already made my own table with States, so no biggie, but still, I had to check it out...and I came across a LookupSQLtest.wfm form in the Samples directory and confusingly, ran it thinking the LookupTables would appear, when I got the error that "DBASESAMPLES" could not be found...so checking the desktop properties, User BDE Alias's dialog, I noticed that the only similar BDE Alias was SAMLES....so I started changing them, ran into the Samples.wfm file, ran that...and it started to work until I tried to run an application that still claimed it couldn't find DBASESAMPLES and I couldn't find it in the stopped file after checking the code. Then on a hunch, I check the Samples.dbf, and there they are, declaring that the proper BDE Alias was DBASESAMPLES, so I changed all those entries to reflect the proper SAMPLES database alias and got them all to work that were supposed to. I should list this as a bug report, since obviously the alias names got changed without changing the code references to it in the files, referencing it. :) Anyway, had some fun and new stuff to look at, but still...if I was a terribly new person, that would be a real scare me away from the platform moment when I couldn't run code that was supposed to show me how to write code by looking at 'working' examples. :( Lee | |