On 2016-11-21 00:30, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus wrote: > Lazarus 1.6 includes the package SQLDBLaz which provides support for MySQL > from > versions 4.0 to 5.6.
Yes, and that "Lazarus Packages" is simply a IDE wrapper around the components included by FPC's fcl-db code. You don't need Lazarus to use any components or classes introduced by FPC. > Looking into the sources, version 5.7 is already there, but the package > doesn't > support it It is pretty straight forward to create a new "registered component" line in the Lazarus packages [SqlDBLaz], which in turn will register a icon/component in Lazarus's component palette. Too many developers don't seem to understand the underlying workings of components or classes. If they don't see it in the component palette they don't know how to use it. It is just sad how "RAD development" has dumbed down so many developers. > SQLConnector1.ConnectorType := 'MYSQL 5.7'; // programmatically because the > OI doesn't have it > MySQL57Connection1 := TMySQL57Connection.Create(Self); // programmatically > because you can't drop it into the form Glad to see you figured it out (RAD didn't get the better of you). Now lets hope others can learn from that. :) Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
