Tim,

Thanks for the update. Hope to hear from you again soon.

Leslie

Leslie,

<< Thanks for the update. Hope to hear from you again soon. >>

Well, it's now running under FP Windows, so another day or two should have
it done for Windows CE.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

Sounds great! Did you manage to get the component/property editors working too?

Leslie

Leslie,

<< Sounds great! Did you manage to get the component/property editors
working too? >>

Yep.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Leslie,

Here's a screen shot of ElevateDB running in a test app in the Lazarus IDE:

http://www.elevatesoft.com/edblazaruswin.png

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

Terrific.
I can see from the screenshot, that you are still using v0.924. I have seen with other
products I tested, that they needed to be adjusted for the upcoming FPC/Lazarus release.
With Lazarus/FPC it is essential to use the latest branch, because no prior one is
supported any more after the release, so the fixes are not available for those who do not
upgrade. Lazarus, FPC and the ARM-WinCE port has changed quite a lot since v0.924/v2.2.  I
would recommend switching to the current version at some point. It would probably save you
some time.

Thanks for the update. I am quite excited about this.

Leslie

Leslie,

<< I can see from the screenshot, that you are still using v0.924. I have
seen with other products I tested, that they needed to be adjusted for the
upcoming FPC/Lazarus release. With Lazarus/FPC it is essential to use the
latest branch, because no prior one is supported any more after the release,
so the fixes are not available for those who do not upgrade. Lazarus, FPC
and the ARM-WinCE port has changed quite a lot since v0.924/v2.2.  I would
recommend switching to the current version at some point. It would probably
save you some time. >>

What is the latest version ?  I just downloaded/installed this version about
2 months ago, but I did some rumblings about a newer version coming along
soon.

<< Thanks for the update. I am quite excited about this.  >>

So am I.  It should be pretty cool when it's ready.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

"What is the latest version ?  I just downloaded/installed this version about
2 months ago, but I did some rumblings about a newer version coming along
soon."

Lazarus is a strange beast. It’s been in beta for years, yet it has been used for
commercial products. I am far from a Lazarus expert, but it seems there is no real stable
version one can rely on.

The daily snapshots can be downloaded from here: http://snapshots.lazarus.shikami.org/lazarus/

You would probably want to make your build for the upcoming FPC 2.2.2 release, so 2.2.2RC2
downloads should be the natural choice.

Leslie

Leslie,

<< Lazarus is a strange beast. It’s been in beta for years, yet it has been
used for commercial products. I am far from a Lazarus expert, but it seems
there is no real stable version one can rely on. >>

Yes, Lazarus could definitely benefit from a little more coherent release
strategy.

<< You would probably want to make your build for the upcoming FPC 2.2.2
release, so 2.2.2RC2 downloads should be the natural choice.  >>

Yeah, I noticed that they've done some important revisions in 2.2.2 related
to widestring/ansistring conversions, which is good.  My testing with
Unicode EDB databases and the Windows interface showed that the data-aware
controls have issues with TWideString fields with Unicode characters, and
I'm assuming that the major issue is with the string conversion due to the
fact that the data-aware controls use AnsiStrings still.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

"Yeah, I noticed that they've done some important revisions in 2.2.2 related
to widestring/ansistring conversions, which is good.  My testing with
Unicode EDB databases and the Windows interface showed that the data-aware
controls have issues with TWideString fields with Unicode characters, and
I'm assuming that the major issue is with the string conversion due to the
fact that the data-aware controls use AnsiStrings still."

As I remember  UTF8 is used all over at Lazarus. FPC is still using ANSI.

Leslie