dbexpress driver for Paradox 7

Neomor

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Jul 26, 2004, 2:18:30 AM7/26/04

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Any one know of a dbExpress driver fro Paradox 7,
or write something like that?
Is this posible to write this at all?

Bill Todd (TeamB)

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Jul 26, 2004, 8:44:01 AM7/26/04

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You cannot access Paradox tables without the BDE so you might as well
use the BDE data access components. There is no dbExpress Paradox
driver.

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Martijn Tonies

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Jul 26, 2004, 10:12:31 AM7/26/04

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> >Any one know of a dbExpress driver fro Paradox 7,
> >or write something like that?
> >Is this posible to write this at all?
>
> You cannot access Paradox tables without the BDE so

Sure you can :-) ... http://www.xstreamsystems.com

There's no dbExpress driver though.

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Bill Todd (TeamB)

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Jul 26, 2004, 1:09:19 PM7/26/04

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Interesting. Have you used it?

Martijn Tonies

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Jul 27, 2004, 4:25:48 AM7/27/04

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> Interesting. Have you used it?

I have tested it a little - the "explorer" utility that you can download
from that site uses it as well.

Rather important though, you cannot use both the BDE and this
component set - the latter uses its own locking mechanism.

There used to be a query-like component on the site as well, but
it seems to be removed. I was talking with the author about
creating a dbExpress driver - but as the query component is
a goner, it cannot be done... :-/

Cristian

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Jul 27, 2004, 4:37:23 AM7/27/04

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If there are enough people interested i could look into creating something
like this ;)

Cristian Nicola

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Mike Shkolnik

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Jul 27, 2004, 10:01:37 AM7/27/04

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Bill,

> You cannot access Paradox tables without the BDE so you might as well
> use the BDE data access components.

I wrote the parser (reader) for Paradox file in SMImport suite:
http://www.scalabium.com/smi

There I didn't publish any component that inherited from TDataset (I don't
need it) but to read the Paradox file is not a problem at all (easy file
format)

PS: protected files are not supported in this reader.
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Ramesh Theivendran(Borland)

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Jul 27, 2004, 1:45:42 PM7/27/04

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> Is this posible to write this at all?

Yes, it will be possible to write a dbExpress driver for Paradox/Dbase
calling the BDE API's
You need the BDE as well.

T.Ramesh.

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Jan Doggen

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Jul 28, 2004, 11:18:37 AM7/28/04

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If you want to roll your own I can dig up old BP7 code that read Paradox
files.
In that case, please contact me directly (watch out for the spam blocker)

Jan

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