Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Marco van de Voort wrote: > > >>http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Language_related_articles > >> > >>(Michael, this is for the docs as well and can be removed then from the > >>wiki :) ) > > > > > > Is it global or local? This: > What do you mean with global/local? It can be

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-16 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort wrote: Michael Van Canneyt wrote: An interface is a construct independent of COM or CORBA. It's just a set of methods. Delphi does allow you to use COM methods transparantly via interfaces. In principle, the same should be true for FPC. It is true ;). Added a short note to the

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > > > An interface is a construct independent of COM or CORBA. It's just a set > > of methods. Delphi does allow you to use COM methods transparantly via > > interfaces. In principle, the same should be true for FPC. > > It is true ;). > > Added a short note t

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-16 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: FPC supports both COM and CORBA interfaces - right ? I wouldn't have thought so. Delphi does it via compiler magic. I think fpk told me so on #fpc . An interface is a construct independent of COM or CORBA. It's just a set of methods. Delphi does allow you to use COM me

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Emson
> hmm. I see dbExpress as a set of interfaces - thats it. I think you are free to implement them. btw, TDataSet is not part of dbExpress. > > I also looked at Qt's database classes and I see a strong resemblance to dbExpress's (including class and method names !) Yes, the underlying database acces

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread vkrish
> An interface is a construct independent of COM or CORBA. It's just a set > of methods. Delphi does allow you to use COM methods transparantly via > interfaces. In principle, the same should be true for FPC. > ok. now I recollect. COM interfaces have 3 additional methods (from IUnknown). Classes

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > No. That is, FPC has no dbExpress components. > > > Looks like dbExpress is written in C/C++ . > > > > IIRC dbExpress is sort of based on Midas. I doubt that dbExpress is legally > > available for free use. I think you at least need a li

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread vkrish
> > > No. That is, FPC has no dbExpress components. > > Looks like dbExpress is written in C/C++ . > > IIRC dbExpress is sort of based on Midas. I doubt that dbExpress is legally > available for free use. I think you at least need a license for a Pro+ > version of Delphi and thet covers you for

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Emson
> > No. That is, FPC has no dbExpress components. > Looks like dbExpress is written in C/C++ . IIRC dbExpress is sort of based on Midas. I doubt that dbExpress is legally available for free use. I think you at least need a license for a Pro+ version of Delphi and thet covers you for deployment. No

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread vkrish
> > > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > 1. I'm currently checking out dbExpress with Kylix. Is is compilable with fpc ? > > No. That is, FPC has no dbExpress components. Looks like dbExpress is written in C/C++ . > > > > > 2. Is there an IDL-to-objectpasca

Re: [fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > 1. I'm currently checking out dbExpress with Kylix. Is is compilable with fpc ? No. That is, FPC has no dbExpress components. > > 2. Is there an IDL-to-objectpascal mapping somewhere ? Not yet. Michael. _

[fpc-pascal]dbExpress with fpc

2004-02-13 Thread vkrish
Hi all, 1. I'm currently checking out dbExpress with Kylix. Is is compilable with fpc ? 2. Is there an IDL-to-objectpascal mapping somewhere ? cheers, -Krish ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/