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RE: [PLUG] Kylix question
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Or,
You look up the actual format of the access DB (like on wotsen's format or
some place), and build your own driver library for it. Someone did this
for Paradox, so you could write apps that use "Paradox" (BDE) tables, but
without having to install the BDE on client machines along with your app.
-- noah silva
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Charles Stack wrote:
> As a fellow Delphi (and somewhat Kylix) developer, I can think of only one
> possible solution...and Linux people ain't gonna like it (short of an ODBC
> driver for Kylix). To access Windows-specific databases, you can use a
> product called ASTA. You can run an ASTA server for Access on a Windows
> box. You then use the ASTA for Linux client suite to access that ASTA
> server. It's not perfect, but it does solve a lot of problems
>
> ASTA allows you to isolate your clients from the underlying database (well,
> for the most part) as well as to develop truly custom data access solutions.
> Of course, it's also a commercial product from ASTA Technology Group
> (http://www.astatech.com).
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of noah silva
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:03 AM
> To: plug list
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Kylix question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if there is any "easy" way to do this. In windows, Delphi
> will let you use any activeX control, and also you can use ODBC data
> sources either using borland's BDE database engine system or "DBExpress"
> drivers that support ODBC. Another way to read/write access tables
> would be to build you own library that did it.
>
> Since Unix doesn't have MS Access to use with ODBC, BDE isn't available,
> and activeX contols are windows specific, this poses somewhat of a
> problem.
>
> -- noah silva
>
>
>
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