No, the POS system is from a third party and uses dbf's. We use Interbase
in the back office stuff that you can't see from checkout. However, we do
need to interface to POS for price changes etc so we still need the bde for
that part - at least until the POS becomes C/S.
"Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19/04/99 21:13:41
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Peter, is this what Food Stuffs uses in the new system I see Pack'n Save
Papanui is using on its checkout systems? i.e. FIB ?
Jeremy Coulter
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> Another point: I now wish we had never used the BDE but at the time !4
> months ago), FIB was not as good and IBO seemed to complex. The main
> problem I find with the BDE is that a connection is a database is a
> transaction. FIB and IBO seperate the transaction from the connection -
> eg, you can have multiple connections per trannie.
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> Switching the bde with IBO or FIB is probably not too hard as they both
> have dataset components.
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> "Simon Mahony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19/04/99 12:17:48
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> Peter,
> On a tangent to your query, what benefits do the FIB components offer
over
> IBObjects, and where can I find them. We're getting our Interbase
> installation set up for testing this week.
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> Cheers,
> Simon Mahony,
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> > I had a play on the weekend with FIB (Free Interbase) components and
> > managed some success but when it came time to connect a FIB
> > Dataset to a
> > provider I get an error 'Invalid Field Type'. I had guessed that this
> > might be because FIB creates TFIBStringFields rather than normal
> > TStringFields so I manually created fields and specified the
> > type as String
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> > Anyone got any ideas on this?
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