Hi, Your idea sounds like a good one, but I want to be clear: this is a patch to the DBX driver (by Edward Denson) that allows Delphi/Kylix (and C__ Builder?) to communicate with ODBC drivers.
Warning: Skip the following if not interested in delphi/kylix: Essentially borland has two different database systems: a.) BDE - older, depreciated, and not cross-platform. b.) DBX - newer, cross-platform, starting with Kylix and Delphi 6 (I think). To use DBX (Database Express) with ODBC, there is no driver that ships with Delphi, so you either need a native DBX driver for your database (which doesn't exist for SAPDB), or you need a DBX driver for ODBC - or you need not to use odbc at all. There exist several ODBC drivers for DBX, but only one [that I know of] is open-source. I sent the changes back to the author, and included them also in an archive of my own at: ftp://users.atari-source.com/pub/windows/dbxodbc-sapdb.zip At any rate, I posted the information to this list, because it if infinitely useful for those wishing to build SAPDB-based applications with a Delphi/Kylix/bcppb front end, but the dbx driver itself isn't part of the SAPDB project. (I do hope that the ODBC driver gets fixed up a bit to make such hacks un-nessisary, but I think it isn't open-source?). The sapdb-prep project looks interesting as well. Thank you, Noah Silva IS&T - Programmer Analyst (215) 419 - 7916 Craig Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/19/2002 12:12 PM To: SILVA Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: News and question? You may want to consider depositing the source to the fixed driver into the SAPDB-PREP project CVS tree. This project is on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sapdb-prep/ Join the project, then you can deposit the source. This will allow you the freedom to move on and this fix can be obtained by anyone through anonymous checkout. On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 07:42, Noah J SILVA wrote: > Hi, > > This email is in two parts: > > a.) I "Fixed" the OpenODBC DBExpress driver for Delphi/Kylix to work with > SAP-DB. If anyone wants the source to this, let me know. In the > mean-time, I will see if the author wants to incorperate the changes back > into his official source tree in some fashion. > > b.) I happened to find the following, which is a clone of SAPDB DBMGUI for > Java. It's at least somewhat flattering that someone wanted to copy the > design. I tested it out, and the interface is very similar to SAPDB > DBMGUI, but slightly nicer if anything. It is not fully complete yet > though, so not all functions are implimented. I think there should be a > link to this from SAPdb.org if possible, since it will probably be one of > the more useful 3rd party tools. > > http://dbmjui.sourceforge.net/ > > > Thank you, > Noah Silva > IS&T - Programmer Analyst > (215) 419 - 7916 > > _______________________________________________ > sapdb.general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general -- Craig Thomas phone: 503-626-2455 ext. 33 Open Source Development Labs email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15275 SW Koll Pkwy, Suite H Beaverton, OR 97006 _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
