DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
http://www.dbi-tech.com/ProductPage_COMTools.aspx Was thinking about getting this from DBI. (I had planned to get Studio Controls for COM but COM Tools appears to give me the calendaring that I wanted and it's 1/3 of the price of Studio Controls for COM.) Anybody using this tool from DBI? t

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Copeland
e you by the year to respond to queries about their own product not working as it should. Halfway decent product, but god forbid you ever need tech support or want to confirm a bug. Mike Original Message Subject: DBI-Tech's COM Tools From: MB Software Solutions, LLC T

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 11/2/2012 1:58 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: I've used DBI software for years. Some of their components have bugs, but they require that you purchase a support contract before they will even confirm that their product has a bug (which would clarify the need to work around the problem.) They sell yo

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Copeland
If you mean the pop-up calendar, no. If you mean the scheduling control, yes. It was the buggiest. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools From: MB Software Solutions, LLC To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/2/2012 1:14 PM On 11/2/2012 1:58 PM, Mike Cop

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Copeland
Making it in Fox with a grid would be my choice now if I hadn't already given DBI the $ for the component. Mike Original Message -------- Subject: Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools From: MB Software Solutions, LLC To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/2/2012 1:14 PM On 11/2/2012 1:58

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 11/2/2012 2:16 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: If you mean the pop-up calendar, no. If you mean the scheduling control, yes. It was the buggiest. Ugh...that's the one I mean...the scheduling control. :/ -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://m

RE: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Tracy Pearson
> There has to be better solutions available other than DBI. Making it in > Fox with a grid would be my choice now if I hadn't already given DBI the > $ for the component. > > Mike > >> ---- Original Message Subject: Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools >&

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Copeland
Whoa! Excellent pricing! Have they been stable? Thanks Tracy! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools From: Tracy Pearson To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/2/2012 2:36 PM Mike Copeland wrote on 2012-11-02: My bottom line on DBI is "no reco

RE: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Tracy Pearson
Mike Copeland wrote on 2012-11-02: > Whoa! Excellent pricing! Have they been stable? > > Thanks Tracy! > > Mike > Mike, I have a really old version of 10.3.1. They are shipping version 15.3.1. The Calendar control is what I've been using. I've not attached data to it. I do not allow i

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 11/2/2012 3:58 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: Mike Copeland wrote on 2012-11-02: Whoa! Excellent pricing! Have they been stable? Thanks Tracy! Mike Mike, I have a really old version of 10.3.1. They are shipping version 15.3.1. The Calendar control is what I've been using. I've not att

RE: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-02 Thread Tracy Pearson
MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2012-11-02: > > > Like Mike said, the price looks good and the product looks good. (Why > DBI's site was so shitty at showing full sized images I have no idea.) > > Do they have samples in VFP code? > Mike, I don't recall that they did. I used the VB 6

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-04 Thread Sytze de Boer
Tracey I note their backend is xml or mdb Is that what you used? On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2012-11-02: > > > > > > Like Mike said, the price looks good and the product looks good. (Why > > DBI's site was so shitty at showing fu

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-04 Thread Tracy Pearson
Sytze de Boer wrote: >Tracey >I note their backend is xml or mdb >Is that what you used? > > I don't attach to a database. I fill in everything pragmatically. -- Tracy Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-05 Thread Ted Roche
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > I don't attach to a database. I fill in everything pragmatically. > > Tracy, you're one of the most practical and pragmatic programmers I know. But I think you mean programmatically. :) (which my spell checker doesn't like, either). --

Re: DBI-Tech's COM Tools

2012-11-05 Thread Tracy Pearson
Ted Roche wrote: >On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Tracy Pearson >wrote: > > >> I don't attach to a database. I fill in everything pragmatically. >> >> > Tracy, you're one of the most practical and pragmatic >programmers I >know. > >But I think you mean programmatically. :) > >(which my spell che