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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, tgbs said:

    Port or program is your choice

    Recently I had that problem too. Not with Interbase, but with svnserve. An exception for svnserve.exe was suddenly no longer an option, only the port (3690) worked.

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    5 hours ago, chkaufmann said:

    Firebird comes in two version, one is with an embedded server. This you can install by just copying some files.

    The "real" server can also be easily installed: just unpack the zip file and call the included batch file which installs the windows service. You can slim down that zip file in advance by removing docs and examples folders, edit the config files (firebird.conf, databases.conf, security5.fdb) and maybe even create your own batch files to name your instance. You can even have multiple firebird servers on the same machine (e.g. for your app and a foreign app) by choosing another port number (in firebird.conf).

  6. Posted

    20 hours ago, Jasonjac2 said:

    FIBPLus is  a bit more complicated than the BDE 

    As you always need to acquire the newest Delphi version  in order to get bugs fixed on FireDAC, why not try a third party DAC?

    DevArt IBDAC can convert from BDE, IBX and FibPlus. Never needed to convert, so I cannot say how well this works though. But you can download a trial version and try it for yourself.

  7. Posted

    On 10/21/2024 at 11:02 AM, dummzeuch said:

    Are you aware that Indy also uses DLLs for SSL? I don't know of any solution that does not require DLLs.

    There is a commercial add on to Indy called YuOpenSSL, that replaces OpenSSL DLLs with Delphi DCUs.

  10. Posted

    Do you really need A?

     

    As you can have 

    for var i:=1 to 10 do ...

    why not 

    with var B := dmStoreInventoryData.tblUpdateItemForStore do begin
  B.AppendRecord([1,'foo','bar',3.1415]);
end;

    and "B" would only be visible inside the "with" block, not outside of it.

     

    Currently you have to "fake" it by 

    begin var B := dmStoreInventoryData.tblUpdateItemForStore
  B.Edit;
  B.FieldByName('Qty').AsInteger := NewQty;
  B.Post;
end;

     

  12. Posted

    On 8/4/2024 at 12:27 PM, David Schwartz said:

    IIRC, Smalltalk was the first language that popularized the notion of 'classes' and OOP, although classes were first implemented in Modula which never really got much traction.

     

    Both Modula and Smalltalk were way ahead of their time.

    You mean Simula. Modula had no classes.

     

    Btw. Anonymous functions have been a feature of programming languages since Lisp in 1958. That was really a long time ago.

  15. Posted

    Until 2005 we used to use QuickReport Pro with QuickReport Designer, which was very buggy at that time. So we tried ReportBuilder Pro. It was very stable, had great documentation and lots of useful features. But it was so slow. Printing a report took more than ten times as long as with QR. Then we tried FastReport - and never looked back.

  22. Posted

    On 1/7/2022 at 10:29 AM, audi30tdi said:

    I use Paradox tables in my old application, and therefor I use the Database Desktop. But as @Virgo said, it shows the error, and the nothing more happens after I click run this program without getting help............

    FireDAC doesn't support Paradox at all. You have to port to another Database, e.g. Firebird. But beware, no more SetRange and Filter, but SQL only.

  23. Posted

    On 1/5/2022 at 2:09 PM, Serge_G said:

    Good news to have now recursive ones, and can we expect in a near future, windows functions?

    I don't think so.

     

    I think InterBase is designed to be very slim and fast. For example, for everything except the most essential internal functions you have to use UDFs. Furthermore, it looks to me that the main use case is still embedded SQL like in ye olden times of InterBase on UNIX.

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