ODBC Express or NativeDB

rbuser

how can I port from BDE to ODBC Express (or NativeDB). I know that I can use
from the developer standpoint but how to allow the user to select from those
tables if there is no BDE "database" to connect to.

thanks,
Luis

digitalmetaphors

The BDE and ODBC are just connectivity options you can use to get at the
database. You'll have to create a new end user report solution using
different data access components (BDE to ODBC Express components). There is
an ODBC Express DADE plugin available from our website in our Friends | Data
section. The main problem is converting your user's templates. The templates
save dataview definitions down, ie. the classes in the BDE plugin you've
used: daDBBDE.pas. The solution is to create a new dataview and save it as
ascii text using the DBExpress plugin in a new report. Then compare this to
a BDE based report template on the same database and table/fields. You
should see that the class names are different for the query dataview
classes. You'll have to create a text converter to load the report templates
from a BLOB field or file into a stringlist, make you changes to convert the
BDE DADE plugin class names to the DBExpress DADE plugin class names. Then
save the template back down and try to load it into the new DBExpress report
project. Here is an example of loading a binary template as ascii text into
a string list and saving it back down as a binary template.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/ConvertBinaryTemplateToASCII.zip

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

digitalmetaphors

Sorry, I said DBExpress a couple times in my post, I meant ODBCExpress:)


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

"Luis" wrote in message news:3e6fa9e5$1@dm500....
use
those
NativeDB have a package that performs this function. Go to the download
section of their site.
Jon