Joel,



You could always issue a FileExist (IOExist in v9 or prior) and give it the
name of one of the Pervasive files. That way you can see if it's there
before opening it as a database table.

Note: this will only work if you have folder level access to the files and
in the newer versions of Pervasive, the network admin does not need to issue
this (but most still do)



Keith



From: magicu-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:magicu-l@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of jccapellan
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:36 PM
To: magicu-l@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [magicu-l] Knowing Database/Table Availability





Hello everyone!

First of all, I want to thank everyone for making this group alive and
helpful specially for those who have shared their experiences and knowledge
in this group.

I want to ask from the group tips or tricks where in my eDeveloper program
can determine that the table or the Btrieve database is not accessible or
can not be opened so than an alternative way can be chosen. I understand
that when table can not be opened, e.g. the server is offline, the Magic
engine issues a "Failed to open lock file, table: <table name>" message but
I was unable to create a program to trap it.

I've tried to use the eDeveloper handler using Error Event type and set
Event to Any, Locked Row, or Unmapped errors but it seems to have no use in
this case.

Is there someone in the group who have an idea?

Joel





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