Re: Example database
Andrew Jensen <[email protected]>
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Tom Schindl wrote: >In my idea it would be a nice-to-have feature that it runs on all 2.x >releases but the main focus should be on the current stable release. > >Maintaining versions to be compatible with all OO-Versions is in my idea >a night mare and adding code to distinguish between these version only >makes the whole thing less understandable for a beginner. But that's >only my way of thinking maybe others have another opinion. You may >demonstrate the concept of recognizing the version in an external document. > >Tom > >Andrew Jensen schrieb: > > >>Andrew Jensen schrieb: >> >> >>>The question is , what would be a good example. Which I suppose comes >>>first to the question, as always, of 'the target audience' for Base. >>> >>> >>> >>How about a target Base release. Should it be that the example runs >>completely in the most current release, but not necessarily in older >>releases? >> >>An example - the form eventAttendees3 in the eventKeeper database looks >>different between 2.0.3 and 2.0.2. Under 2.0.2 the status line is about >>1/2 inch from the bottom of the window frame, and the top level menu is >>gone. Under 2.0.3 neither of these are true. I see three possiblilities: >> >> 1. Ignor the problem. >> 2. Don't make use of chaning the layout manager. >> 3. Add code to the library to recognize the different versions. >> >> >>What do people think? >> >>Drew >> >> > > > > This may also be a case of needing help from the likes of Frank, here on the list. It may be that there was a better way to do what I did that would be handled the same way in any 2.0.x release. My thnking is along your lines as to what to do if it isn't however, and that is - whenever possible it must run with any 2.0.x release!