Re: saving relationship diagram across sessions

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:15:22 +0100,
"Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Seb,
>> I'm using Base to work with a PostgreSQL database, via the postgresql
>> driver.  Is there some way to make the relationship diagram in "Tools
>> -> Relationships" persist across sessions?  Currently, any work I do
>> on the visual arrangement of the tables, size, position, etc. is lost
>> after I close that window.  Any help would be appreciated.

> Uhm, those things *should* be persistent already. In fact for me they
> are (assuming that you do a File/Save in both the relation designer
> and the database document).

> Sadly, I have no idea how this could be broken.

> Technically, the data source has a property LayoutInformation, which
> carries the layout of the relation designer. You could try writing a
> macro which examines this property, to see if the relation designer
> properly stores its layout.  Then, this data source property's value
> is stored in the settings.xml file in the .odb package - that's the
> next thing you could check to see if the layout is stored properly.

Thanks Frank.  Indeed I did save the changes in the relation designer
and the database document, but the relation designer starts with
everything anew next time I open the file.  Can you please suggest how I
can write the macro you describe.  I'm not sure what the data source and
the *.odb package are.  Thanks.


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Seb