You might want to have a look at some of the Delphi videos available http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Delphi_Videos I seem to remember there being a couple on Intraweb / VCL for the web.
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Charlie wrote: > > Thanks Sean. I guess I need to clarify at least one of my questions. > > 1) I essentially have no database experience except for dBase, Paradox > and Access. If I eventually want to have this application so that > customers could enter orders on the web what do you recommend I > consider for a database > > Not those! > > Sql Server Express (free for the db size you are likely to need, use > the dbGo components that come with Delphi) or Firebird. I use SQL > server for nearly everything. > > I have worked some with Sql Server 2005 – I’m pretty sure it is the > “free” version. Will look at that option again. > > What are your feelings about MySql? > > 2) My customer would like for his customers to be able to access the > application to determine the status of their orders. What have you > found that enables concurrent users to do this? > > Not quite sure what you mean here. Web apps are concurrent by nature. > Desktop apps on different computers can both access the db at the same > time providing you have a suitable database. > > Here I mean having customers access the Win32 application by logging > into the company’s server upon which (some how) a query would be run > to retrieve and display open orders for that customer that logged in. > By concurrent I mean that multiple external customers would be able to > access a view of their open orders at the same time. > > 3) Has anyone been able to take a Win32 application and make in work > as a web application? Where do I start? What version of Delphi do I > use? What database? Was the conversion process very time consuming and > costly? > > It depends on how well you wrote the original app J. If all the data > access is done on datamodules, then it is much easier than if the data > access components are on forms. Either way, you are starting a new > application and trying to reuse as much as possible rather than > converting the original app. > > Unfortunately datamodules were not used with the original application > so the data access components are on the forms. While it wouldn’t be a > hard thing to change it certainly will be time intensive to move the > components to a data module or reassign a new database to all of those > components. Then of course if I move to ADO components then that’ll be > challenging I’m sure. Really don’t have any idea how to pursue that > conversion; that is to ADO. > > 4) I have tried viewing and studying the demos/examples that came with > my versions of Delphi to learn how to create a web application. I > guess I’m dense but I’m having a difficult time with these. A few > months ago I had the opportunity to work some with Visual Studio. I > found tons of tutorial videos and examples that help tremendously with > the learning curve. I haven’t found that with the Delphi examples that > I have. Does anyone have any recommendations? > > Look at Intraweb aka VCL for the web. It is the easiest for what you > want to do. You will still need to recreate the ui, but you may be > able to keep the data modules. Use the latest version of Delphi that > you can. > > I’ll look at the costs of Delphi 2009/2010 as well as any updating of > the Intraweb VCL. If there is some way to “keep the underlying logic” > then recreating the UI doesn’t stress me too much. But then as I said, > I a fledgling Delphi programmer. > > 5) All I am is a guy that always wanted to be a programmer but never > really had the opportunity to program day in and day out. So I’m > always in these huge learning curves. I sincerely appreciate any > suggestions you can give me. > > Thank you so much, > > Charlie > > *Charlie Kerscher* > > *'A Magisterium Faithful Catholic'* > > *Williamson GA* > > *Cell: 770.468.1757* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
