Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-15 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hmm - time to answer my own postings :) Mark Derricutt wrote: This is a worry. Some add on third party things don't keep up with the play. Mark didn't you say earlier you couldn't get this to install? In this case it was I that didn't keep up with the play and installing the latest release

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-15 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
Mark Derricutt wrote: Max Nilson wrote: There are already a couple of OpenSource type efforts underway to do a VCL type library based on one of the X toolkits for the Free Pascal Compiler (FPK). Yup, there's Medigo (i think) which is doing it's MCL wrapper around GTK which should

Re: [DUG]: Coping with large datasets

1999-03-15 Thread Greg Nixon
Some query's you can't really restrict. eg. Clients - You are better to either get all or none. Doing a count would be point less as this would still involve doing a table scan which is slow if you have a couple of hundred thousand records. I guess we could do set rowcount 30 select * from

[DUG]: text on canvas

1999-03-15 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Hi All. I have been doing a bit of experimenting the last couple of days. I want to create a VERY simple report writer for myself, as sometimes QR or other report writers are a bit of overkill for a really simple report. PLUS I wanted a new project to work on. Basically the problem I

RE: [DUG]: text on canvas

1999-03-15 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Thanks Al, I will check this out when I get home..   Jeremy Coulter -Original Message- From: Alistair George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 9:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: text on canvas Jeremy I am not sure if the

[DUG]: Component Editors

1999-03-15 Thread phillipm
Hi, I have a component that I am about to write a component editor for. As the user selects sub-component items in my component editor, I want the selected item to be visible in the Object Inspector (same sort of thing as selecting a menu item in the menu editor). I have a couple of questions

Re: [DUG]: Crystal Reports (was: Report Builder Pro)

1999-03-15 Thread Rohit Gupta
Hi Steve, Its worth mentioning to anyone using Crystal, in case they have not realised. The dratted thing reads every record matching the filter of the master table primary index... and all the linked records. It then makes a new master table with everything in it. Thats my understanding

[DUG]: Report Printer Pro 3.0

1999-03-15 Thread Simon Mahony
Since we're on the topic of report writers, has anyone used Report Printer Pro 3.0 ? We are looking to buy something for deployment overseas, and we'll be asking it to do some pretty hairy formatting (probably using sub-reports or some other multi-query facility). The ad for Report Printer Pro