Re: [DUG]: Delphi disappearing

2001-04-18 Thread Rohit Gupta
Try editing the .dsk file. look for modules section header and remove everything from there. Its a feature of Delphi that if it cant open a form it can cark it. I trust you have saved the dfms as text - If not use the convert utility in the delphi5\bin directory to convert to text and then

[DUG]: Unicode

2001-04-18 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Hi all. I have to do some stuff with Unicode, and have noticed that ther is (or appears to be) very little support of it in Delphi. I have seen code that uses codepages etc., and none of the code I tried really worked, because of either not having the right codepage or some such thing. YET,

Re: [DUG]: BDE Error $2B32

2001-04-18 Thread Nello Sestini
Bevan The search continues :) did you nail this one yet? if not here is another partially formed dim idea: this problem has the odd feature that running the programs first interactively as administrator "latches" things so that they'll work. is it possible that running the app from a

Re: [DUG]: BDE Error $2B32

2001-04-18 Thread Bevan Edwards
Nope, still not solved yet. Those are some interesting questions you've raised. It'll have to wait until tonight as the CGI apps are in use all day every day. I noticed that there are two users on the system IUSR_xxx and IWAM_xxx, where IUSR_xxx is used for anonymous web access, but IWAM_xxx

[DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Sergei Stenkov
Hello, I've been asked to look for some reporting component/s. Does someone know of a reliable ones I could evaluate? It should : be able to report to text file, Excel, printer have a user interface for layout design purposes It would be good If it can "talk" to an Oracle

Re: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread David Brennan
I've started evaluating a Report Builder from Digital Metaphors but it seems that it cannot produce multiple pages across when there are more columns then can fit on one page. And it can't export to Excel. I might be totally wrong here and would like to get a few different opinions

Re: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Bevan Edwards
Well, over the years I have searched long and hard for a reasonable reporting tool that does all this and more. So far, the best I have come across is Seagate Crystal Reports (currently up to v8.5, but v8 is good too). This does have it's downsides, as well as all other reporting tools I've

RE: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Sergei Stenkov
Thank you David and Bevan for the prompt response. I'll look at both suggestions. Best regards, Sergei --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

Re: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Trevor Jones
I'm not sure about the excel stuff, but its worth having a look at Fast Report www.fastreport.ru It is good, cheap and, well, FAST, has a good designer, and supports dialogs for parameter entry as part of the report itself - Original Message - From: "Sergei Stenkov" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Sergei Stenkov
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RE: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Dennis Chuah
Have you looked at Crystal Reports - it has a driver for ORACLE, or you can use ODBC. It exports to more formats than I can remember, Excel included. There is a very good GUI report designer. There is a VCL control that wraps its runtime engine. Regards, Dennis.

RE: [DUG]: Report component/s

2001-04-18 Thread Sergei Stenkov
Have you looked at Crystal Reports - it has a driver for ORACLE, or you can use ODBC. It exports to more formats than I can remember, Excel included. Thanks Dennis, in fact I'm looking at it now. There is a very good GUI report designer. There is a VCL control that wraps its runtime