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Third-Party VCL won't allow an application to be run from CD

Posted on 2002-04-29

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I have a third-party dabase VCL that is a simple replacement for the BDE, from Unley Software. But I can't get it to run from a CD or floppy. If I develope the program from a folder on the harddrive, thats where the program expects to find the database. If I later transfer the program to my rewritable CD drive(drive E:), It won't run from there. I know where the problem lies. I connect my program to the database via the object inspector, using a property editor. I suppose i could connect the database at runtime using <minitable.table := 'd:\table.mtd'> but what if my user's drive uses a different drive letter? I can't always know which drive they use. Also what if they want to transfer the program to different media later on?
Can anyone help me solve this?
Thanx...
Paul

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by:kretzschmar

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ID: 69768512002-04-29

if your databasefile resides with your application in the same location/directory, then you could easy use at appstart (preferable on the formcreate-evenet of your mainform) something like this

minitable.table := extractfilepath(application.exename)+'table.mtd'; //maybe +'\table.mtd';

and after this open your table

meikl ;-)

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by:kretzschmar

ID: 69797172002-04-30

any results?

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by:annas

ID: 69806172002-04-30

Well actually I havn't tried it yet, recovering from the stress of a car accident in which I totaled my car! I also got a response from unley software. They sent me a long involved solution. It's kind of dissapointing, really. I had hoped for a short, simple solution. What I have ended up doing was just to connect the minitable and the controls at runtime and give the path as it would be on the CD ie the D: drive. Most people's CD drive will be the D: drive, but that's not gaurentteed. I wonder if i could put the minitable in a resource file? Would that work?

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