DBISAM 3.14

rbuser

D5, RB6.03, DBISAM3.14, Win2K

I finally found all the pieces needed to make this work, kind of.

I have the data dictionary BuilderSettings setup for the DBISAMSession and
have generated the tables and fields using the Data Dictionary Builder. The
TDBISAMDatabase object has the DatabaseName = Name. I am using a
TDBISAMSession object (not the default).

All looks okay in the development environment, but when I test the end user
report tool, the query wizard does not see the tables. This is a BDE
working application that I am testing with DBISAM. All of the BDE
conversion issues have been addressed, with the exception of the reporting
tool. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

Bill McCoy

digitalmetaphors

Make sure that the DatabaseName and Name properties are the same for hte
DBISAM database component on the form. This is the only way that the DADE
plugin can find the database on the form. Make sure you have the
DataSettings property configured on the Designer. We're running 3.14 here
and it works great.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim:

Thanks for the quick response. The properties are set correctly on the
database objects as well as the report designer (using SQLType of sqSQL2).

Can you think of a reason why the Data Dictionary Builder would see the
tables in the design environment, but the end user runtime would not?

Bill McCoy

rbuser

I compared my project to the demo and discovered that I had to set
TppDesigner.DataSetttings.UseDataDictionary to False. Odd? The help file
has nothing on this and the pdf documentation states:

"Determines whether the data dictionary object assigned to the
DataDictionary property will be used."

I don't understand why setting this to False works, but it did.

Bill McCoy

digitalmetaphors

Yes, if the data dictionary is empty, then you won't see any tables or
fields in the query tools. You say that you generated the data dictionary
entries, and so UseDataDictionary should be true. Make sure that the design
time database is the same as the database that you are connecting to at
runtime for the data dictionary tables.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors