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Re: Any PB & ADO gurus?

• Posted by don cole <doncole at ?acbell.ne?> May 24, 2008
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ken mortenson wrote:
> 
> You were so helpful for me before (thx Jason) I was hoping someone might
> get me unstuck again so I can get to the fun part of writing code.
> 
> A little background.  I bought PowerBASIC years ago because I wanted a
> good compiler.  But I find PB to be both ugly and incomplete.
> 
> While I've always liked the core C language, I find it gets dirty quickly.
> 
> Euphoria is very clean and well named.  It is euphoric writing code
> with such a flexible data type and it isn't cluttered with a lot of junk.
> 
> Anyway, to my issue; Here's the PB (double ugly IMHO) code...
> 
> FUNCTION dbOpen ALIAS "dbOpen" (sPath AS ASCIIZ) EXPORT AS LONG
>     DIM v1 AS VARIANT
>     ON ERROR GOTO ErrorTrap
> 
>     LET m_db = NEW DISPATCH IN "ADODB.Connection.2.7"
>     LET m_rs = NEW DISPATCH IN "ADODB.Recordset.2.7"
> 
>     MSGBOX "CommandTimeout start"  'debug code
>     v1 = 120
>     OBJECT LET m_db.CommandTimeout = v1
>     MSGBOX "CommandTimeout done"    'debug code
> 
>     v1 = 3  '%ado_Use_Client
>     OBJECT LET m_db.CursorLocation = v1
>     v1 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; " _
>           & "Data Source=" & sPath & "; " _
>           & "User ID=ADMIN; " _
>           & "Password=;"
>     OBJECT LET m_db.ConnectionString = v1
>     OBJECT CALL m_db.Open
>     dbOpen = 1  'success
>     EXIT FUNCTION
> 
> ErrorTrap:
>     dbOpen = 0  'failure
>     LET m_db = NOTHING
> END FUNCTION
> -----------------------------------------------------
> When I originally wrote this the param sPath was AS STRING, but Euphoria's
> allocate_string produces the PB type ASCIIZ so I changed that.
> 
> This code works fine called from PB, but when called from Euphoria it
> fails on the line...     OBJECT LET m_db.CommandTimeout = v1
> 
> I added the two messageboxes to bracket the problem.  Called from 
> Euphoria it never gets to the second messagebox.
> 
> I'm baffled since disregarding the ugly syntax the line is pretty
> straight forward.  Any ideas?
> 
> Alternately, does anyone have another way of using ADO recordset
> from Euphoria?  It would be nice if I could access any SQL db with
> just a new connection string as I can with this code.
> 
> Why not use an EDB (anticipating your question) db?  A number of reasons,
> basically because I know how to do safe multiuser calls to a SQL db,
> but don't see how that would work with an EDB.  I'd be interested in
> that question as well.  Hey, I'm interested in lots of things...  

Hello Ken,

I am not familiar with PB but did kinow Liberty Basic.

I found the best way was to forget all about Liberty Basic and start all over
with Euphoria. It's was much easier and faster that way.

This is just my 2 cents worth.


Don Cole