Re: Delphi and I-Net for Windows 5.x

steinar@balder.no (Steinar O. Cook) wrote: ->> ->> Borland's SQL links provides native connectivity to Informix. The ->> product is available as ->> a stand alone package for around 180.00 or as part of the 1900.00 ->> Delphi client/server edition. ->> Have you been using Delphi to connect to Informix?? I have prototyped ->> a portion of our ->> commercialy available Informix 4gl app in New Era, Access, c++ and am ->> currently in the ->> porcess of doing it in Delphi. I would like to compare notes. ->We have also been testing Delphi, Access and had a quick look at NewEra. ->We were not impressed by NewEra v1.0 and are currently awaiting version 2.0. ->We have made a prototype of our 4GL application in Delphi and Access. Our ->conclusion is that Delphi is a super tool *but* it has one major feature ->missing, namely the possibility to perform the same functionality as the ->4GL CONSTRUCT statement. I.e. it seems to us that you can not easily design ->a form in which the user can fill-in-the-blanks and press "Search". ->Access is OK as long as the application is small, I should mention that there ->are numerous problems with the various combinations of TCP-stacks and ->ODBC drivers. We will not port our application to MS-Access. ->We are currently eagerly awaiting the OpenLink ODBC driver to see how it ->compares with INFORMIX-CLI and SQL Retriever from VisionWare. ->If Delphi had a component for QBE (Quer-By-Example) we would probably go for Just to but in, but there is a shareware/freeware QBE component on the net. Steve.