John, That answers all eleven questions.
Thank you very much, JaMi ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] SDK and Delphi Questions > The Protel SDK is implemented with Delphi run time packages. This allows > controlled access to a part of the internal structure of Protel 99SE without > requiring access to its (proprietary) source code. Packages are chunks of > compiled code that are similar to ordinary Windows dll's but with additional > object oriented class information. This gives the ability to access the > object oriented structures (e.g. pads, tracks, text, etc.) contained in a > design. These pre-compiled run time packages are Delphi compiler version > specific. A package which was compiled with Delphi 5 cannot be accessed > from external code that was compiled with Delphi 6. > The Protel 98/99 SDK was originally compiled with Delphi 3. Protel 99SE, at > one point, had both Delphi 3 and Delphi 5 versions but the Dephi 3 version > was later discontinued. This means that you MUST use Delphi 5 for any > Protel 99SE server development. > Protel DXP appears to have been written with Delphi 6 but an SDK for DXP has > not (yet?) been made available so, at the present time, you cannot write > servers for it anyway. If the SDK for DXP is implemented in the same way as > it was for 99SE, you would need the matching Delphi version for server > development. > > John Williams > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JaMi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "JaMi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 7:22 AM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] SDK and Delphi Questions > > > > Ian, > > > > I did go thru all of the PEDA and PDEV Archives that I have avaiable to me > > here on this system (back to 9/12/01), and did note that several posts did > > mention that D6 would not work for P99, but that also it appears that D6 > is > > what DXP is written in. > > > > I am wondering just what the problem is, and whether or not it may be > > possible to get a re-compile out of Sidney which would work on D6 > (certainly > > less work than SP7). > > > > On the other hand, I wonder if D7 may work whareas D6 did not. To this > > extent, I thought about downloading the free Trial Version, but I realize > > that it would take me more that the 30 days just to learn enough of both > the > > SDK and Delphi to be able to put the thing to the test, and see whether it > > would handle the compiled libraries. > > > > Is there some specific thing that D6 won't handle, that could be checked > out > > on D7? > > > > I ran into this same kind of problem once before with Borland with Turbo > C++ > > Version 2 versus Version 3 with some compiled libraries, but eventially > > found that while they would not work from the "integrated environment", > they > > could in fact be used with the "command line" Version of the newer > Version. > > I am wondering if the problem with Version 6 might not be something like > > that. > > > > I guess that I just have to start crusing Ebay looking for D5. > > > > Does anyone know of any other soruces for used / recycled software?. > > > > Anyway, thanks for your input, > > > > JaMi > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
