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- FrontBase Plugin for REALbasic® 3.0
- 1.0 beta 1
- Brad Hutchings
- FrontBase, Inc.
-
- Release Notes
- 30-Jan-2001
-
- Direct feedback to: rb_feedback@FrontBase.com
-
- Overview
- --------
-
- Enclosed is a REALbasic plugin that allows REALbasic to talk to FrontBase.
- This release includes a plugin for MacOS Classic (8/9) running on PPC. Plugins
- for Carbon and Windows will follow shortly.
-
- ** Special thanks to Joe Strout at REAL Software, Inc. for helping me get
- the plugin to work. **
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- The FrontBase Plugin is "client side" software. In order for it to talk with
- FrontBase, you'll need to install a FrontBase server on a computer available
- on your network. The FrontBase server does not run on MacOS Classic, so you
- cannot run both FrontBase Plugin and server on the same machine (yet). Included
- in this distribution are FrontBase servers for MacOS X Public Beta and Windows
- NT. Servers for Linux, FreeBSD, and other platforms are available in the
- downloads section of http://www.frontbase.com.
-
- 1. Please refer to the respective installation documents for instructions.
-
- 2. Please visit http://www.frontbase.com to get a free license string once
- you have your server installed.
-
- 3. On the server, create a database named "TestDB" and start it up as
- described in the server installation documents.
-
- To install the FrontBase Plugin for REALbasic:
-
- 1. Drag the file "FrontBase Plugin.PPC" to REALbasic's "Plugins" folder.
-
- 2. Restart REALbasic.
-
- 3. Check that "FrontBase..." now apppears in the "File" --> "Add Data Source"
- submenu.
-
- Adding a Data Source
- --------------------
-
- The FrontBase plugin works as a data source in REALbasic:
-
- 1. Choose the "File" --> "Add Data Source" --> "FrontBase..." menu item.
-
- 2. For "Server", enter a fully qualified name or address of the server
- (e.g. "server.domain.com" or "192.168.1.100")
-
- 3. For "Database", enter the name of the database you created and started
- (e.g. "TestDB")
-
- 4. If the database has a password, enter it, otherwise leave the "Database
- Password" blank.
-
- 5. For "User", enter the user name to use to log into the server. You
- can use "_SYSTEM" for testing purposes if you don't want to create a
- user on the server. For production, however, you'll definitely want
- to set up users, grant table privileges, etc.
-
- 6. If the use has a password, enter it, otherwise leave the "Password" blank.
-
- Now you have a data source and can proceed with Chapter 10 of the REALbasic
- Developer's Guide — Creating Databases with REALbasic.
-
- Known Issues
- ------------
-
- • When sending SQL statements to a FrontBase data source, please be aware that
- FrontBase _strictly_ follows the SQL 92 Standard. An excellent reference to
- the SQL standard has been written by C.J. Date and Hugh Darwen:
-
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201964260
-
- • The FrontBase plugin is "beta quality" software. While it has been exercised
- extensively internally, it has not seen the "real world" until now. Please
- provide feedback if you try it!!
-
- Got questions? Want to be an official tester?
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- Send e-mail to "rb_feedback@FrontBase.com". This is a forwarding alias which goes
- directly to Larry Barcot (FrontBase VP Sales) and me. Please include a phone number
- so we can follow up that way if needed.
-
- Brad Hutchings
- brad@FrontBase.com
- Office: 1.949.455.2913 (California time, 9 AM - 5 PM)
-
-