Anyone have experience with TMS components?

Roy Lambert

Roy

Yes we have.The components we use are the grids and IW components. Any
components specificly you have in mind?
Response on e-mails from TMSsoftware is also good.

Regards, Harry


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> Roy Lambert

Harry


Its mainly that I'm thinking of spending some of my money on them, and as a hobbyist the ROI is zero so I need lots of reassurance.

I'm looking at the €175 wadge of components to improve (modernise) the look of my apps.

Roy Lambert

Roy

I've used them for a number of years.  The quality seems
to be quite good... e-mail support is excellent
documentation is so-so (typical of many of us I suspect )

I really haven't got the true benefit out of having the library
simply haven't got to use as many of the components as there are.
A lot of my components still carry over from TurboPower days.

Jon

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Harry
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> Its mainly that I'm thinking of spending some of my money on them, and as a hobbyist the ROI is zero so I need lots of reassurance.
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> I'm looking at the €175 wadge of components to improve (modernise) the look of my apps.
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> Roy Lambert
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Roy Lambert <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in news:01ED10FC-A98C-4B8F-
A393-E6F230609C4B@news.elevatesoft.com:

> Anyone have experience with TMS components?

Roy,

 I bought the AdvStringGrid and have based my default database form
around it, with non-linked data access so I can exploit all the grid's
possibilities without the inevitable glitches due to events being called
up when moving around the grid.

I find it very powerful, but very confusing in some areas. for example:

- I've not got grouping to work as I wanted, so I've left that for
later,
- the footer row to calculate sums/averages etc is annoying because it
partially hides the last data row
- idem for the Firefox-like search row which I don't use as its key-
input is poorly thought out and un-intuitive.
- they have a huge number of methods, many of which do very similar
things, and they have two ways of addressing cells: absolute row/column
or visible row/column. Unfortunately the documentation doesn't clearly
state which methods use which system. I got so confused that I ended up
not using hidden rows/columns at all (so visible count = absolute count),
but reducing the height/width to zero instead when I want to hide them.

I used Infopower before, and chose TMS for all the announced features
when I decided to abandon data-linked controls (especially Excel import &
export). I don't regret it, but I wish things would move a little faster
in correcting these bugs.

--
Chris
(XP-Pro + Delphi 7 Architect + DBISAM 4.25 build 3 + EDB 1.00 build 6)

Roy Lambert <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote:

Anyone have experience with TMS components?

Roy Lambert


Dear Roy,

No actually ... but ... (

I have worked with Raize, InfoPower & DexExpress.

Of these I have had the most joy with Raize. It is an amazing component-set (I honestly haven't any relationship with the company) & comes
bundled with a bunch of really useful add-in tools, like a greatly improved ImageList editor, several 100 very good professional ButtonGlyphs etc.

If you are looking for "general purpose GUI" components that look & feel really good (buttons, panels, etc., etc., etc) you can do much worse than
Raize.

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<01ED10FC-A98C-4B8F-A393-E6F230609C4B@news.elevatesoft.com>, Roy
Lambert wrote:
> Anyone have experience with TMS components?

We use a lot of them in our products (replaced all the Orpheus
grids etc) and I am very happy. If there is ever a problem Bruno
seems to fix it and fix it quick and there's a nice steady flow of
enhancements, more of which I ought to use.

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