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edited June 2010 in DADE
Is there any documentation on setting up Dade for the Advantage Database
Server with Delphi 2010?

Thanks

Whitney Cox

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  • edited June 2010
    Hi Whit,

    Connecting your DADE pipelines to an Advantage database is identical to
    connecting to most any other DB. You will simply place a TADSConnection
    object on a form and connect it to your DB, then after adding the Advantage
    plugin to your uses clause (daAdvantage), you will be able to create and
    edit queries in DADE at runtime using the designer.

    For instructions on how to register the daAdvantage plugin at design time or
    to use it with the report explorer, see the ReadMe.doc file inside the
    \Demos\4. EndUser Databases\Advantage\1. Native\... directory.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited June 2010
    I was following the instructions in that ReadMe.doc already, but I am new to
    Delphi 2010 and when I went to Tools/Environment Options as stated in the
    instructions, there was no Tools/Environment Options. There was a
    Tools/Options, but I could not find the Library tab referred to after that.
    Ther eis a LIbrary Tab in Tools/Environment Options in Delphi 5, but I don't
    see it in Delphi 2010.

    Whit Cox

  • edited June 2010
    Hi Whit,

    Yes I believe the ReadMe was written for older versions of Delphi (7 or
    earlier) however the same concepts apply.

    When you select Tools | Options in Delphi 2010, you then need to navigate to
    the "Library - Win32" node of the tree view on the left to check the library
    path.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited June 2010
    Not to sound like I don't know what I'm doing, but I apparently don't know
    what I'm doing. In the ReadMe,Doc for doing this, I am on step 7 on page 2
    that says to go into Delphi, open the rbads114.dpk and click Compile

    I open rbads114.dpk, but there is not a Compile button displayed at that
    time. So instead, I click Project thenCompile, and that gives me an error
    saying that adsd70 is missing.

    Any help is REALLY appreciated

    Whit

  • edited June 2010

    The name of the Advantage package you have installed will vary by Delphi
    version and Advantage version. Use Windows explorer to browse to your
    Advantage installation folder and determine the name of the package.

    As an example I have Advantage 9.10 installed and for Delphi 2007 I browse
    to

    C:\Program Files\Advantage 9.10\TDataset\Delphi2007\Win32

    And find the name is adsd2007studio

    Then using Notepad, I open rbAds1211.dpk and edit the Requires clause to
    refer to the adsd2007studio package name, rather than adsd70.



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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com



    Best regards,

    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
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