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Deploying Delphi 1.0 database applications
I don't know how to dynamically set an alias when I install
my application on another machine. I need to do this so
that my Reportsmith report can find the table. It can find it if I manually go into BDEconfig and set the alias. I don't want a user to have to worry about that when they install though.
I would imagine that there are BDE API functions that can do this, but the online documentation on Delphi 1.0 says that
I have to order that separately from Borland.
Help!
my application on another machine. I need to do this so
that my Reportsmith report can find the table. It can find it if I manually go into BDEconfig and set the alias. I don't want a user to have to worry about that when they install though.
I would imagine that there are BDE API functions that can do this, but the online documentation on Delphi 1.0 says that
I have to order that separately from Borland.
Help!
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I do not use Report Smith
I wasted too much time on getting it to work
with aliases. I wrote my own report generator
instead.
I wasted too much time on getting it to work
with aliases. I wrote my own report generator
instead.
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RS_Runtime.
RS_Runtime would try to look for the required tables at the root
directory of the disk drive. I ended up copying the table there to get the thing to work, but this is sloppy. As far as I know,
in Delphi 1.0 the TDatabases component will allow adding an alias
local to your application, but it will not register the alias for you with the BDE (Delphi 2.0 DOES let you do this).
In Delphi 1.0, I think you have to somehow access the BDE directly by means of the BDE API. Accessing the BDE directly is well documented in Delphi 2.0, but not Delphi 1.0. Any ideas?