Jim,
Did you start your present project from scratch? Did you use newapp or qstart to start a project? Did you do any background investigation on the framework (use Definitive Guide to Codebook Development) before you started the project? Do you have the present app running in a development environment from your PC? If you can run your application in the development environment you should be able to compile the exe, copy the exe, with dbpaths.* and your data folder into a separate folder, run the VFP setup routine which will add the vfp runtime libraries to the app into distributable application, and move it to another machine. Codebook is not a framework that runs by itself. While some tools have been developed to 'jump start' a new application, we have always copied another running project and modified it to suit the current circumstances. There are bugs in the framework and while the framework does get updated, it is not perfect. However, the bugs are usually revealed when someone does something that isn't commonly done. A simple application runs relatively easily under the basic framework if the beginning project is built properly. If you need some documentation, go to the www.flashcreative.com site and try that. They have some documentation for starting up an app from scratch in Codebook. The other thing that you can do is consider consulting with someone directly who writes in Codebook. That's how I got started in it.
Bill Young
CySolutions
wjy (AT) cysolutions .D.OT com
<i><font color="#663300">Is there any documentation on how to distrobiute a CB 6.1 program? I've just spent over 4 hours trying to get a distribution disk created and still can't do it. The latest problem is that the paths in the DBPATHS.DBF file are invalid. I previously had to figure out that I had to distribute a SECURITY subfolder even though I am not using any security features. Then I had to figure out that I had to distribute the DBPATHS.* files. Now that doesn't work and I have no idea at this late hour how to get it to work without writing my own installation program to fix the files.
I've spent 30 to 40 hours chasing down bugs in 6.1 and am getting frustrated. I understand that this is a volunteer supported project and have been trying to contribute in that spirit, but this is a BETA release!
Now I can't even prepare a distribution disk!
My previous posts on bugs have gone unanswered.
Is anybody actually using this stuff for anything real?
I've got to demo a preliminary version of my app for a client on Monday and I am expecting to spend all day Sunday just getting a distribution disk ready. I am NOT in a good mood. This should NOT have been released as anything more than a BETA!!!!</font></i>
Bill Young
CySolutions
wjy@cysolutions.com
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