Subject Re: Just in case I was the last to know From Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net> Date Sun, 23 Jul 2023 05:04:10 -0700 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Attachment(s) User BDE Aliases.png On 7/22/2023 11:48 PM, Lee Grant wrote: > 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. DBASESAMPLES and various other aliases are now User BDE Aliases. See attached. > > 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. If you note there is information in the book, that these haven't been updated for a while, and I can't tell where they came from. I reference them because they are installed with dBASE, though. > 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. Hmm. Well, I am not quite sure what the FoxBase user was complaining about, or what they expected. But oh well. > 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. The alias in the Properties Dialog should be (as shown in the attachment) dBASESamples. > 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. :( I am not sure why you had to jump through all these hoops, by default the aliases that should be working automatically are User BDE Aliases, in the PLUS.INI file, and should show up with the correct names in the Properties dialog. Ken -- *Ken Mayer* Ken's dBASE Page: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase The dUFLP: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/index.htm#duflp dBASE Books: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm dBASE Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Tutorial/00_Preface.htm dBASE Web Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/WebTutorial/00_Menu.htm dBASE DOS to Windows Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/DtoWTutorial/00_Menu.htm