Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 17:20:27 +0200 Sven Barth via Lazarus wrote: >[...] > I might be wrong, but wasn't undo support added to the form designer? Yes, some years ago. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Sven Barth via Lazarus
Am 05.10.2017 13:33 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus" < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org>: >> In one case you must change the code, in the other, you use the >> point-and-click paradigma of RAD to correct things... > > > The other problem I'm experiencing is that all these settings are done

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2017-10-05 11:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: The series "Large database applications in delphi". The strategy described there is used in a set of applications in which the main one has over 2000 forms. Thank you Michael, that set of articles were immensely useful - as all your articles

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Martin Schreiber via Lazarus
On 10/05/2017 11:09 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just curious. Kylix and Delphi (at least v7) comes with excellent > documentation and quite a few example projects. But not a single DB > example shows a multi-form database application. Here is a Free Pascal RAD-style

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2017-10-05 11:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: The same is true in tiOPF, when using mediators: At least I get a compile time error (most of the times), not a runtime error. And with tiOPF there was only one location to fix. With the code I played with last night (where the table columns

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-10-05 11:10, leledumbo via Lazarus wrote: Because that defeats the purpose of a demo project: A "real world" example (or close to it) would also be a very valuable source of information. Education for the masses. In the

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2017-10-05 11:10, leledumbo via Lazarus wrote: Because that defeats the purpose of a demo project: A "real world" example (or close to it) would also be a very valuable source of information. Education for the masses. In the tiOPF project we stuck to small-and-to-the-point demos for many

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread leledumbo via Lazarus
> What I meant to add to that is that I find it very strange that no such demos are available. After all, in a real-world business case (and even personal) you would hardly ever write a single form database app. Because that defeats the purpose of a demo project: to introduce a feature in as

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
On 2017-10-05 10:09, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: I couldn't even find examples of such demos on the internet, and I've spent more time searching than what I intended. What I meant to add to that is that I find it very strange that no such demos are available. After all, in a

[Lazarus] Delphi, Kylix or Lazarus multi-form DB app example

2017-10-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
Hi, I'm just curious. Kylix and Delphi (at least v7) comes with excellent documentation and quite a few example projects. But not a single DB example shows a multi-form database application. They are all just a single main form demo. I couldn't even find examples of such demos on the