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Thread An engine component already exists
Tue, Aug 28 2007 3:34 PMPermanent Link

It would be nice if the DBISAM Engine component could just accept that
there are two components in the IDE, perhaps using some expert option or
something. I have a project group with more than one project that needs to
access a signatured database. Even closing the other form or data module
doesn't let it work, which means it is painful switching between them. I
understand you can't have two, but if they could work together to maybe
even flag that they aren't active right now then that would be better than
stopping a form loading at all.

Thanks for thinking about it. 8-)

/Matthew Jones/
Tue, Aug 28 2007 7:37 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

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Matthew,

<< It would be nice if the DBISAM Engine component could just accept that
there are two components in the IDE, perhaps using some expert option or
something. I have a project group with more than one project that needs to
access a signatured database. Even closing the other form or data module
doesn't let it work, which means it is painful switching between them. I
understand you can't have two, but if they could work together to maybe even
flag that they aren't active right now then that would be better than
stopping a form loading at all. >>

It's a singleton architecture, so it is basically not possible for there to
be more than one instance of the component loaded without there being total
confusion as to which settings are being used.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
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Wed, Aug 29 2007 4:24 AMPermanent Link

I thought you'd say that, but why not have the component as just a "view"
onto the underlying singleton? Then you could have 53 of the components,
and a change in one would be reflected in the others (with possible delays
in display - who cares). It is currently a pain (a real one - I have to
close the IDE before I can re-open the other form), and the solution isn't
hard. Fine, don't fix it for DBISAM, but if ElevateDB has such, please
"fix" this for that.

/Matthew Jones/
Wed, Aug 29 2007 4:49 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

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Matthew,

<< I thought you'd say that, but why not have the component as just a "view"
onto the underlying singleton? Then you could have 53 of the components, and
a change in one would be reflected in the others (with possible delays
in display - who cares). >>

You say "who cares", but when it comes time to figure out which of the 53
components is actually being used for the settings due to the creation
order, etc. it certainly does matter.  Allowing more than one instance is a
recipe for confusion and more support issues for us.

<< It is currently a pain (a real one - I have to close the IDE before I can
re-open the other form), and the solution isn't hard. Fine, don't fix it for
DBISAM, but if ElevateDB has such, please "fix" this for that. >>

It's the same issue with ElevateDB, and I'm not "refusing to fix it".  On
the contrary, there's nothing to fix - it was designed that way.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Wed, Aug 29 2007 8:36 PMPermanent Link

Phil Read
Hi Matthew,

I don't know if this will help you...

You can open your IDE 2 times. i.e run Delphi or C++ Builder two times,
then you can access a different project in each instance of your IDE
both having a DBISAM Engine component. Not as handy as having 2 projects
open in a project group but a possible solution for you. I quite often
have 2 copies of C++ Builder running for this sort of thing.

Phil.
Wed, Aug 29 2007 8:38 PMPermanent Link

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Thu, Aug 30 2007 6:33 AMPermanent Link

Tim, you seem to be missing the solution here. Sure you need a singleton.
I have no problem about that. What I'm suggesting is that the singleton be
an object created using a normal singleton pattern when needed. The
component that we plop on a form then accesses that singleton to set the
settings. Of course it would be wrong for anyone to have more than one at
runtime, and that too can be checked by registering with the single object
and the second one to be created *not in design mode* would complain with
an exception. But at design time, it would be real handy to be able to
manage multiple projects at the same time. This is restricting the great
flexibility of Delphi, and I can't see why it can't be solved while
keeping with the singleton requirement. I hope I've explained better how I
think this can be done - move the singleton requirement to a global and
have the components access that. If more than one tries to access the
single one at run time, create an exception. At design time, just let it
slide (or display a text property showing "2 components accessing
engine").

/Matthew Jones/
Thu, Aug 30 2007 5:18 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Matthew,

<< Tim, you seem to be missing the solution here. Sure you need a singleton.
I have no problem about that. What I'm suggesting is that the singleton be
an object created using a normal singleton pattern when needed. The
component that we plop on a form then accesses that singleton to set the
settings. Of course it would be wrong for anyone to have more than one at
runtime, and that too can be checked by registering with the single object
and the second one to be created *not in design mode* would complain with an
exception. But at design time, it would be real handy to be able to manage
multiple projects at the same time. This is restricting the great
flexibility of Delphi, and I can't see why it can't be solved while keeping
with the singleton requirement. I hope I've explained better how I think
this can be done - move the singleton requirement to a global and have the
components access that. If more than one tries to access the single one at
run time, create an exception. At design time, just let it slide (or display
a text property showing "2 components accessing engine"). >>

You're ignoring the fact that design-time works just like run-time in terms
of which settings are used for operating the engine when tables are
activated, etc.  Allowing more than one engine component would prevent
someone from knowing definitively which engine component is being used at
design-time to provide the engine settings.  Picture opening up a server
engine project along with a client engine project at the same time.

The best way around this issue is to move any engine settings that you may
be using at design-time via the TDBISAMEngine component into run-time code
and remove the TDBISAMEngine component from your projects.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Fri, Aug 31 2007 5:03 AMPermanent Link

> Picture opening up a server
> engine project along with a client engine project at the same time.

Hmm, yes, I guess if they are different then that would be awkward! Your
workaround - coding it in - does indeed solve it easily, so I'll go with
that. Suggestion withdrawn.

/Matthew Jones/
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