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Using
3rd Party Tools to Speed Development, Enhance Performance
and Empower the End-User, Part I
We
all like to crunch code (well most Delphi geeks do).
The problem is that the end-user could care less about our
bit blasting skills. The end user wants it pretty,
fast,, powerful and oh yeah...yesterday. Good 3rd
party tools help us to be efficient and creative (by keeping
us from reinventing the wheel). These tools also help
us to tame the beast that is the end-user.
This
presentation will document the use of several 3rd party
tools used to address efficiency, performance and power
issues. The award winning tools include: IBObjects,
InfoPower 3000, Reportbuilder Pro and TExtraDevices.
Bye,
bye BDE
Larry
will discuss using IBOjects as a BDE replacement for
connecting Ito nterbase. Using IBO enhances
performance, simplifies distribution and negates the need
for Enterprise level software for some C/S and multi-tier
apps. Larry will demonstrate converting a BDE app to
an IBO app..
Data
Filtering - Have it your way
Larry
will discuss an application which allows the end user to
create and store data filters in a data base.
Filters can easily create and morphed. Very little
code was written to enable this functionality -- thanks to
those great third party tools. Larry will discuss code
modifications that make this work.
Flexible
End-User Reporting Using Those Filters.
Filtering
data easily is OK but what can I do with that filtered data?
How about creating storing and morphing reports that run
against the filtered data? How about outputting those
reports to a printer, MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, ASCII text, or
HTML at the push of a button?
Hmm
this is getting interesting...
See
you at HADP!
