creating alias at run time error 'unknown database alias: myRuntimeAlias'

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From: jo
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:16

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Hi

Thanks for all the previous help. I do seem to be getting somewhere........

I have managed to set up installshield to allow the user to save the
database files seperatly from the exe, this path is then stored in an ini
file. When the onCreate event of my app's datamodule is executed. It gets
the data concerning the path to database files from the ini, then uses this
to create a subdir for the netfiledir. It also sets the private dir to
c:\win\temp. I then edit the registry and set the local share key for the
borland bde to 'TRUE'.   Then I use session.addstandardalias with the data
from the ini concerning the path to databases. However, this seems to have
caused a lot of different errors mostly

'unknown database alias: myRuntimeAlias'

so seemingly my ttable and sql components are not seeing this new alias I am
generating at runtime?

Can anyone shed some light on this please?

I am begining to wonder if it would be better to convert my app to using the
Tdatabase component.....


Many thanks
Jo

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