Delphi - Delphi 3 to next version

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Delphi 3 to next version

Greg Madison, MS

2004-05-12, 9:10 pm

I currently write programs in Delphi 3 and am looking to upgrade. Two main
features I want to keep in a new compiler is the database and QuickReport
(which never worked real well in Ver 3). I can't find a listing on
Borland's web page that tells me which version is right for me. Any one
with suggestions on which version I need to continue writing programs in
pascal, keep the ability to work with databases, and have access to a quick
report component? Thanks.

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Greg Madison, MS, DABR
Medical Physicist
The Center for Cancer Care

Corey Lawson

2004-05-13, 10:31 pm

Hmm... what kind of work do you do with databases, BDE, ADO?

I think the consensus is to avoid D4.

I use D5 Enterprise right now, along with the ODAC components to work
with Oracle (www.core-labs.com) databases.

I think there are some product matrices on Borland's website for what is
included in each version. IMHO, the most useful stuff (not necessarily
the high-zoot stuff) is kept for the Enterprise/Architect versions,
unfortunately.

The current release of Delphi 8 is .Net-only (but it does have VCL.Net,
which, if you have VCL-based source for controls, etc., it might compile
relatively nicely, YMWV.)

Native Win32-based development is supposed to come later in the year, I
guess.

I'm playing with D8 Architect right now, and I kind of like it...

As far as reporting, newer versions of Delphi come with the Rave
reporting engine (www.nevrona.com). There is also an open-source
reporting engine out there that looks kind of

(reportman.sourceforge.net).

I'm using ReportBuilder 5 for my app (www.digital-metaphors.com), along
with the RBAddon utility.

Greg Madison, MS wrote:

> I currently write programs in Delphi 3 and am looking to upgrade. Two main
> features I want to keep in a new compiler is the database and QuickReport
> (which never worked real well in Ver 3). I can't find a listing on
> Borland's web page that tells me which version is right for me. Any one
> with suggestions on which version I need to continue writing programs in
> pascal, keep the ability to work with databases, and have access to a quick
> report component? Thanks.
>
> --
> Greg Madison, MS, DABR
> Medical Physicist
> The Center for Cancer Care
>
>

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