Re: Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

Hi,

I'm testing Delphi 2005 at the moment, with ZEOS Lib (libpq), and I have to say it work fine, as Tony mentioned. I have a few questions:

1) I'm curious: are there a lot of big projects using ZEOS with PG or is that technology still relatively new? I would like to use it a replacement for ODBC, but I have no experience regarding its stability.

2) Is it possible to link Crystal Reports, the integrated reporting tool of Delphi 2005, to PG through ZEOS? I couldn't find how to do it...

3) ZEOS has support for the PG 7.4 protocol. Correct if I'm wrong, but the PG 8.0 protocol is exactly the same, right?

4) Are there know limitations would should be aware of before when building a PG GUI with Delphi 2005 / ZEOS 6.5.1? Like uncompatible tools or things like that...

Thanks for your time!

Philippe

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Objet : Re: [GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

Programmers Paradise has delphi in their catalogs...

If you call borland and tell them you want to do a competive upgrade for the old VB you are using they will let you buy the upgrade to Delphi 2005 PRO. You have to ask.

Like I said before you get what you pay for and all this time you have been fooling around you could have just bought Delphi.
All the time you spent researching is actually costing someone money.

Not sure what you mean by this

> And several years ago, I had some experiences with people using
> Delphi, and their database server that make me not so enthusiastic to
> get involved... but I did want to give credit to Tony that his
> arguments for using Delphi are convincing, if it were readily
> available. And I do thank him for all his time and efforts to advise me.

Delphi has been superior to VB,Access etc since 1995 when version 1 came out. Version 1 had features that MS has only recently included in .net

I am just giving you good advice, I have been a developer for a long time and have used VB, C++, Assembly, Access etc and when I say Delphi is the best tool for creating win32 database apps, I mean it.
If Access or C# was better I would for sure be using it.

Also I have had good luck with Microolap, I use their postgresdac components, and guess what? That MySQL RAD thing they sell is created with.....yep you guessed it Delphi.

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Tony Caduto
AM Software Design
Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql 8.x http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com

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