[DUG] Question about running an app. across a network

[Jeremy Coulter]

a mere 20 years Leigh....so your still a newbie then :-)  You are correct,
but in this case whilst its not the best solution, it will suffice for now
and will only require a function to find the correct folder location and
then do a copy and replace as apposed to a rather larger potentially
code-breaking changes. But I will definitely be changing the way it
works.Its a matter of time- as always

Jeremy

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Leigh Wanstead <leigh.wanstead at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You might be spend time to wondering what is going wrong if you deploy the
> easiest solution to your customer.
>
> From my 20 years experience, the "easiest" solution might require lots of
> more time and energy than better way.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Regards
> Leigh
>
> On 9 July 2015 at 09:09, Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I too think it might be the "better" way too Leigh, but the above ideas
>> are the easiest to implement "now" and I can spend the time later to add it
>> to the database.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Leigh Wanstead <leigh.wanstead at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jeremy,
>>>
>>> I think that your idea about dropping the INI and transferring the
>>> settings to a database with a row for each machine that connects is the
>>> correct way to do that.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Leigh
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 July 2015 at 21:58, Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All.
>>>> I have an app that I will be running from a server location. However, I
>>>> want the app. to read an ini file that is located in a folder on a client
>>>> machine.
>>>> A Shortcut to the app on the server and the ini file will live in a
>>>> folder on the client machine, but I cant work out how to get the app, when
>>>> its run via the shortcut, to read the ini file on the client machine.
>>>> Anyone know how to go about doing this?
>>>> I have thought about dropping the INI and transferring the settings to
>>>> a database with a row for each machine that connects, but before I get that
>>>> carried away, I just wanted to see if someone had any ideas to do the above
>>>> with the ini file.
>>>> The reason I want an ini for each computer is about settings. Not all
>>>> machines have the same settings etc.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Jeremy
>>>>
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