Sorry, I wanted to write directly to Peter but I made a mistake and the
message went to the list.

My Apologies.

Fulvio Senore

Fulvio Senore ha scritto:

> Hello Peter,
>
> this is a private message since it is rather OT for the list.
>
> I am interested in running Firebird embedded, so probably your problems
> are my problems too. It looks like there is not many people developing
> such a software.
>
> I have developed a program that seems to work well under OS X. Nobody
> reported problems about security2.fdb.
>
> If you are interested you can look at the OS X bundle and check if it
> causes problems:
>
> http://vvvapp.sourceforge.net/
>
> I have ended up with that structure for the bundle and it seems to work
> well. I have also modified firebird.conf.
>
> I used wxWidgets, but I don't think that using QT should require a
> different bundle layout.
>
> What library did you use to access Firebird? I used IBPP.
>
> Fulvio
>
>
> Peter Lee ha scritto:
>> I did try that initially - as per your very helpful instructions - thank
>> you! However - it didn't work with our app. We are using Qt 4.5.2, which
>> , I ended up having to have the value of
>> './Ourapp.app/Contents/MacOS/firebird', with firebird.conf in the firebird
>> folder as well.
>>
>> Everything was working fine - but two issues have come up. Firstly - it
>> would be good if our bundle had a space in it's name... with major version
>> number after - so we don't overwrite prior versions when it's deployed.
>>
>> Secondly - security2.fdb needs rw access for 'other' and mac people are
>> telling me that it's evil to have writable files within the app bundle...
>> which is fair enough. That means that ideally - the firebird stuff should
>> go into '/Library/Application Support/Rising Software/<app>/firebird'
>>
>> So - either way - i'm stuck with spaces in the path unfortunately. I'm
>> still not sure if they are allowed or not?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter Lee
>>
>>
>>> I am using "." in LSEnvironment and it works:
>>>
>>> <key>LSEnvironment</key>
>>> <dict>
>>> <key>FIREBIRD</key>
>>> <string>.</string>
>>> </dict>
>>>
>>> I put the files in the same folder as the application.
>>>
>>> Fulvio Senore
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Lee ha scritto:
>>>> I'm just wondering if it's allowed to have spaces in the path?
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to set this in OSX using the Info.plist file with our
>>>> application, for FB Classic (running as embedded...) and it's not very
>>>> happy. Have tried various versions of enclosing in quotes, using '\ '
>>>> instead etc.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Peter Lee
>>>>
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