Show us the actual event where the macro value is being substituted.

Jason Wharton

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> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of firebird@...
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] Questions about TIB_Script
>
>
> I can't find anything that really describes how TIB_Script
> works with Macro
> substitution.
> I was using the Eval package and thought the issue described
> below might be
> something
> broken in that package, so I purchased the Total bundle. I
> am having other
> issues with
> installing that, but in the meantime, maybe someone could advise me on
> whether I've
> got the right idea about using TIB_Script.
>
> I have a statement like this in the script:
>
> CREATE DATABASE <databasename>;
>
> I set the MacroBegin and MacroEnd properties to '<' and '>',
> and provide an
> event handler
> for OnMacroSubstitution. When I executed the script, I hit
> the breakpoint
> that I'd set
> in the event handler. ATextBlock was 'databasename'. The handler set
> ATextResult
> to ' "c:\aaa1\test.fdb" '. (' " was actually '", but that's
> hard to read in
> an e-mail.) When I
> proceeded from the breakpoint, I got a dialog box CREATE DATABASE
> <databasename>.
> After dismissing that, I got an EIBO_ISCERROR. When I did
> ShowDialog, it
> claimed a
> token error on the string 'CREATE DATABASE <databasename>;',
> as though the
> macro
> substitution never happened. But the database got created properly.
>
> Is there something else I'm supposed to do to prevent this?
>
>
>
> Michael D. Spence
> Mockingbird Data Systems, Inc.