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Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Connection problem
Author: johnf
Posted: 2007/02/28 20:02:17
 
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On Wednesday 28 February 2007 16:58, Bill Bedford wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:48:09 +0000, Bill Bedford wrote:
> > I'm trying to follow 'How To Create a Form With a Grid and Populate it
> > with Data' on the wiki. The wizard creates a new connection file an OKs
> > the connection, but when I come to run the app I get these warnings in
> > the terminal
> >
> > Dabo Info Log: Wed Feb 28 19:37:56 2007: Could not establish connection
> > 'BBM'
>
> OK, I think I know where the problem is.
>
> First of all I can only open a connection if I put a absolute path into
> the CxnFile field in the .cdxml file. The problem comes if save to the
> .cdxml from the Class Designer. If this happens the CxnFile field is
> overwritten with either the relative path to the .cnxml file
> (path://xxxx.cnxml) or the relative path to a none existent file in the
> daboide folder (../../daboide/xxxx.cnxml).
>
> I have my home directory on its own partition which is, I guess, why I
> have to use the absolute path to the .cnxml file.

This sounds like an old issue. I had it all the time. Your solution is
exactly what I did to fix it. But the current SVN trunk has a fix. So you
might want to consider using the SVN trunk.

We need a wiki page about SVN????
--
John Fabiani


 
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