On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15/08/2010, Marcos Douglas wrote: >> >> Zeoslib uses ADO too. So, it could be used with MS SQLServer. >> I think Zeoslib is more faster than ODBC. > > Yes, but I was thinking in terms of cross-platform. ADO doesn't exist > on other platforms other than Windows. But seeing that Zeoslib itself > is cross-platform, it should be easy to switch Zeoslib to use a > different database layer when the need arises.
Because that I also asked about multi-tier. The server will be Windows and the app uses SQLServer. The app, today, is client-server. But I want change this. I want implement an app server, on Windows, using SQLServer (I can't change the RDBMS). >> >> 2- What the Report designer is more like with ReportBuilder? >> >> You said there are a few, but not wrote names! rs... > > ReportMan - available on SourceForge > LazReport - available with Lazarus > FastReport - available on SourceForge (I think) > RTF Report - what our company uses. Available in fpGUI or tiOPF repositories > MSEgui Report - available with MSEide&MSEgui project. > I think there are a few web/java based reporting tools that could be used too. Oh, thank you. I found one more FortesReport :) Which of these is more like ReportBuilder? >> Well, your solution to reports seems to be very good. Is it an open >> source project? It is very interesting! > > Yes, included with fpGUI and tiOPF. Currently I use tiRtfReport.pas > (reporting engine is a single unit) with tiOPF based apps, but it is > very easy to separate out the tiOPF dependency as it already has > support for any Data Objects or TDataset descendants as a reporting > source. It even supports multiple data sources, and you can extend the > reporting functions by writing your own functions and registering them > with the reporting engine. Very interested. I found a link (yours): http://www.mail-archive.com/laza...@lazarus.freepascal.org/msg01785.html You ported it to Free Pascal and fpGUI, very good. You said the reporting engine is a single unit... the reports are implement by code, not designer? In many times, I would like to implement by code because the "visual designer" is limited. So, how RTF Report works? >> But the LCL has the advantage of being developed by the same team of >> FPC. > > Actually no, it isn't. FPC and Lazarus are separate projects with > separate development teams - though they do have a close relationship. Oh, I did't know that. >> Let's say it is "safer" to continue evolving. > > fpGUI has company backing so it is definitely here to stay. MSEgui has > also been around for years too. Both fpGUI and MSEgui have stable > codebases, and fpGUI even has an increasing development activity > year-on-year so these projects are in good health (as is Lazarus LCL). > :-) Right... so, this projects are good options too :) > See the project analysis sections done by Ohloh: > > http://www.ohloh.net/p/fpgui > http://www.ohloh.net/p/11134 > http://www.ohloh.net/p/lazarus Thanks. I will see later to compare them. >> I know you use tiOPF. You even sent me the sources in another mail :) >> But I did not know you're a core developer of tiOPF. There is a SVN to >> update? > > Yes, the project is hosted on SourceForge.net. See the tiOPF website > for more details. > > http://tiopf.sourceforge.net/SourceCodeRepository.shtml Ok. You work in tiOPF2... thanks, I will get it. >> You uses this solution or just talk about what tiOPF can do? >> If you uses maybe I could do a few questions about it in private? > > We are planning to use the remote persistence layer early in the new > year, but I know of many Delphi developers that already use it. Ok... so, maybe it works fine and stable!. >> The GUI toolkit is very important. MSEgui or fpGUI are very >> interesting, but how many options of components they give us? Actually >> I use JEDI and RX. > > Both those projects have plenty of UI components covering just about > all types of projects. Obviously I can speak more for fpGUI, and can > comfortable say that new components are constantly added or existing > components improved on. Developing new components for fpGUI is really > easy too - and again guarantees that it works the same on all > supported platforms. The fpGUI is compatible with Lazarus? I can install it in him? Thanks, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal