Easier Navigation in c-treeACE

c-treeACE was designed to be quicker to get started with and easier to use. As such, an improved directory structure was created. Previous directory structures have been collapsed where possible for quicker navigation.

c-treeACE simplifies your development, including providing the build tools as described above. Previous c-tree developers were accustomed to building their libraries with the mtmake utility and this utility continues to be available. These c-treeACE make utilities are conveniently located in the /pro directory of your c-treeACE installation. This easy to find location is shown below for comparison to the previous c-tree Plus V8.14 location.

Where do I Go?

A brief description of each of the new directories:

• bin - The bin\ace directory contains the powerful c-treeACE engine, already started in most Microsoft Windows environments. You will find your data in this area when you begin using c-treeACE. A single directory, bin\ace\sql, contains the entire c-treeACE database. Simply copy this directory into your next application deployment. c-treeACE is smaller than 10 megabytes yet rivals the performance of other database products hundreds of times its size!
• include - Here you will find all of the c-tree source header files required to build your application. Simply include this folder in your project. Everything is included and ready-to-go.
• lib - Each of the c-tree application interface technologies are contained in a separate directory here. With c-treeACE Express the libraries are pre-compiled and ready to go! Libraries are included for most popular programming environments of your chosen platform. For instance, with Microsoft Windows installations, both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 libraries are included. Simply point your project to the application interface library of choice, link your application, and build.
• pro - This directory contains the c-treeACE make utilities for building your own c-treeACE libraries from source. You will find both the traditional mtmake utility, with many new updated options, and a new graphical based utility for easily creating new c-tree makefiles.
• sdk - This area is where developers can go and get started right away. All of the c-treeACE tutorials for each application interface are contained here, and are ready to load and run. In many cases, simply pick a project, substitute your source code, and you are up and running with c-treeACE database technology in minutes.
• source - This directory contains all of the traditional c-treeACE client side and standalone source code. Here you can find the source code to many of FairCom's utilities. Modify and customize them as desired to complement your own specific needs.
• tools - This area contains the all new sleek and modern c-treeACE tools. Two folders are provided. cmdline contains the traditional command line tools, familiar to existing users and retaining the c-tree admin and util folders. The new guitools folder contains the binaries for all of the new c-treeACE tools installed and available from the Windows Start menu.