Re: 4GL Forms Directory

Please do not do this: >From: "Mr. Munaf A.Razzak" <g086mnf@bomplant3.appl.ge.com> >Date: Mon, 03 Feb 97 13:53:00 PST >X-Informix-List-Id: <list.12948> > >OPEN frm_name FROM "/dir/frm_name" >This should sort out the different directory problem, but a word of caution >a lot of different directories might just not be the right thing as things >might get confusing about the wherabouts as the number of directories grow. >I follow an OBJ dir where all the objects are dumped into and have scripts >in various application source directories which dump into it. >Munaf >g086mnf@bomplant3.appl.ge.com >>I have a developer who is asking me how he runs a 4GL application in >>a different directory from his current one and access forms from that >>application which are themselves in a different directory again. He can >>start the application OK, but it fails to find the form unless it is in >>the same directory as the application 4GL. Specifying a path name in the code like that condemns the program to (near) instant obsolescence. When you change machine, or reorganize the discs, or make almost any change, all the source code has to be edited -- a maintenance nightmare. The correct fix has already been pointed out -- use DBPATH and the notation: OPEN FORM frm_name FROM "frm_name" Yours emphatically, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> PS: the proposed syntax 'OPEN frm_name FROM "/dir/frm_name"' won't compile because it is not valid syntax for opening a cursor!