Re: Q: Do you know about an OLE2/ActiveX ODBC browser/viewer?

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > I don't know of such a control (MapInfo or others may have it), but if > you realy mean to create this for the Internet (not Intranet) you > better look for something other than an ActiveX control. > 1. There are many users that can not use an ActiveX control at all, > notably those who use Netscape or those who use something other than > MS Windows as their OS. > 2. Many users don't want to use ActiveX over the Internet due to the > dangers involved. Any downloaded ActiveX control have free access to > the PC and anything the PC is connected to. We have forbidden our > emploiees to even have a browser installed that can run ActiveX for > this reason. We are not alone in this. > 3. ActiveX controls have to be installed when downloaded. Even though > this can be very automatic it's a significant problem. If you have run > a number of installs you may have seen the problems related to > registry updates and other items. There will also eventually be a > bloat of ActiveX controls if many web sites used them. Deinstalling > them is also hardly possible. > > Look for a Java solution instead. Java solves all these problems. > If you find one we would be very interested in what you are doing as > we need mapping information in our applications. > > If you are doing an Intranet application the issues are different, and > the above problems may not apply. > > Jesper Bagger <Jesper.Bagger@ameridata.dk> wrote: > > :Me and my development team are currently developing an Internet > :Interactive Map viewer utility called "ActiMap". Our aim is to make it > :possible to import data and datareferences from an ODBC-databasesystem > :onto the published map. > : > :I am looking for an ActiveX-control to browse data from an ODBC > :database, which we can integrate in our ActiMap Manager, the map > :publishing tool. > : > :The control should preferable make it possible to select rows and > :columns through a query-by-example user interface. > : > :Do you know about such a control and where to download or purchase it? > :If yes, please reply both to the newsgroup and to the email-address > :Jesper.Bagger@ameridata.dk. > : > :In advance, thanks. > : > :Jesper Bagger > : > > Nils.Myklebust@idg.no > NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway We are aware of the severe limitations of the ActiveX-technology. However, in our current development direction it has been a natural choice: - We have ported a Visual C++ MS-window Mapviewer-client to an Internet-aware ActiveX with less effort than it would have taken to port it to a Java-client. - A number of the potential customers plan to use ActiMap in an Intranet, either by internal use of Internet Explorer or by integrating ActiMap in a Lotus Notes application. - Furthermore, Netscape Navigator can be extended to download and run ActiveX components with the ScriptActive plug-in for NCompass. - In the time to come, Microsoft will enable ActiveX controls to run on the most common UNIX platforms. We are actually planning to port the ActiMap client to Java in late 1997 or early 1998 - can you wait for that :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesper Bagger E-mail: Jesper.Bagger@ameridata.dk Computer Analyst, Ms.Sc. Voice: +45 39 16 87 79 Ge Capital IT Solutions A/S Fax: +45 39 16 88 99 Aldersrogade 8 web: http://www.gecits.dk DK 2100 Copenhagen East Denmark