Hi Robert (and Delphi friends), Recently I posted the message below stating that RealThinClient Components were open source. I was wrong. This product had been offered free for a short while (10 days) then the author retracted that offer. I had missed that retraction. As Danijel Tkalcec the author of this fine product states:
"RTC components were open for download with source code for 10 days, but that was it. RTC was never really OpenSource (at least not under the terms someone normally understands OpenSource). And after those 10 days, I have closed the so-called "open source" offer and continued the way I started (as a commercial product), because I saw that I have made a mistake giving RTC Core out for free. "Anyway ... there are only 30 licensed RTC SDK users and you are one of them. RTC SDK is not OpenSource, even though I am offering source code for evaluation, if someone requests it." To all my Delphi colleagues, please accept my apologies for offering information you could not rely on. At the time when the author had made that announcement, I recall feeling amazed that such a solid product was being offered for free. Yes it is that good. These components have allowed me to easily produce, test, and debug web based applications from within the Delphi environment without a steep learning curve. That there are not more than 30 licensed users can only be because the word has not gotten around. Kind regards, --Jon P. Grewer -----Original Message----- From: Jon P. Grewer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:22 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Delphi and Web blogs Hi Robert, If you are running your own windows server from home then I would like to recommend RealThinClient Components. See http://www.deltasoft.hr/rtc/index.htm. It is now open source though the website doesn't say so. This is the easiest Delphi centric way to produce web applications that I have seen. The documentation is a little thin but there are some great "Quick Start" tutorials on the site. I had a stand-alone web server application running in 5 minutes. Probably the nicest thing is that you write and test your web app as a standalone web server but deploy it as ISAPI if you are running Apache or something else. I am not affiliated with RTC Components in any way except that I am a satisfied user who thought enough of these components to pay for them when they were for sale. BTW, ignore the website where it asks you to pay for the components. Write to author and I am sure he will give you download instructions. Kind regards, --Jon P. Grewer -----Original Message----- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 05:55:16 -0400 From: "Robert Meek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Delphi and Web blogs To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Since I've not used any of the various web technologies available except basic html and xml I don't have the info necessary to make a decision about what to use for this particular need, but I do know that I want to do it in Pascal at the very least, and if possible from Delphi! Currently my Web Site is made via FrontPage, but this is probably going to change in the near future. But whatever medium I use to create it, it will still be very basic html only. From what I've been able to gather it would seem that the easiest route to take would be via ASP, but I have a question about this and it may relate to some of the other available methods as well. When ASP is used I keep reading about the back-end database, and even my site host said that they prefer MySQL for this. Does this refer to their server dB which is used to send the ASP's out on request? Meaning that once I've created the pages and upload them, if they are setup to handle ASP that's how it's done? Can I still use my own database to deal with the data I want to show on my ASP's? Or does it all have to be handled by one? Whatever method I decide to use I would like to also use Nexus to handle the actual blob and other record info. I don't much care what the ISP does, but that's how I want to handle MY own data! from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderator for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
