<i><font color="#663300">Jim,
Did you start your present project from scratch? Did you use newapp or qstart to start a project?
</font></i>Yes to both. <i><font color="#663300">
Did you do any background investigation on the framework (use Definitive Guide to Codebook Development) before you started the project?
</font></i>I've been using CodeBook in various versions for 4 years. But I haven't heard of the Definitive Guide to Codebook Development. Does it describe version 6.1? That was where my problem was<i><font color="#663300">
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.
</font></i>It runs fine under the development environment. As far as I can tell, there is no documentation that you have to include the Security folder even if you don't use security nor that you have to ZAP the dbpaths files before distribution.<i><font color="#663300">
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.
</font></i>Something like distributing an app? I appreciate that there are bugs. My code isn't perfect either and this is a colaborative FREE framework. It is pretty impressive, I say. I am just frustrated by the number of bugs that are still in there from 6.0, the number of undocumented new "features" that change the way I have to do things that used to work find in 6.0, and the lack of responses to bug reports. I'm sure Ed and everyone else is busy; so am I. I just think there are too many Gotchas in 6.1. I didn't expect to have so many problems with an incremental upgrade rather than a full version upgrade.<i><font color="#663300">
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 .DOT com
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The last time I visited Flash, I couldn't find anything other than CBK 3.0 and ComCodeBook.
I apologize for the tone of the original post. Since I had a working preliminary version of my App, I was expecting to have a distribution disk prepared in an hour or so and instead it took 6 hours of poking around and exploring dozens of objects on all three tiers, repeatedly putting WAIT WINDOWs in various methods and programs, recompiling, and copying the EXE to the test system to find where the problem was, then removing all the WAIT WINDOWs.
I was a bit fried and probably should have waited 24 hours before posting.
...Jim
Jim Hansen
Canyon Country Consulting
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