Re: Opening forms in 4GL

Posted in 1994

Kerry Sainsbury — Thu, 15 Sep 1994 22:09:59 +1200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <35866u$2lf@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, jvemo@connected.com (Jon Vemo) wrote: > > I am looking for a way to access forms (i.e. "open form [file name]") > in 4GL, when the compiled form is not in your current working > directory. I know I can specify the full path, but I want to avoid > this, since the path may, and most likely will change. > > Any ideas?? 4GL also looks for forms in your DBPATH too, so at our site we have /home1/data/mydatabase.dbs and /home1/data/forms We stick all our forms the "forms" directory (ie: open form "forms/myform"). If that doesn't give you the flexibilty you need I guess you could just create symbolic links all over the place... --------------------------------------------------- Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz R&D Dude, Quanta Systems, Auckland, New Zealand ph. +64 9 377-4473 (work). +64 9 276-5546 (home) ---------------------------------------------------- The Informix FAQ lives at kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/*