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 | | From: | Ian Heazle | | Subject: | Active X components | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:41:48 -0500 |
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 | I have written an application in Db7.1 which uses the active X graphing functions that are available in Db7.1. They work very well but apparently have no equivalent in Dbplus.Can they somehow be extracted or transferred? Are there other 3rd party functions that can be substituted?
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| | From: | David Stone | | Subject: | Re: Active X components | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:17:25 -0800 |
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| Ian Heazle wrote:
> I have written an application in Db7.1 which uses the active X graphing functions that are available in Db7.1. They work very well but apparently have no equivalent in Dbplus.Can they somehow be extracted or transferred? Are there other 3rd party functions that can be substituted?
Hi Ian, the graphing ActiveX (actually I seem to recall there were 2 of them) that was included with 7.1 is a 3rd-party package---it isn't integrated into 7.1 in any way (well, 7.1 has been told it exists), so you should be able to use it for any version (7.1 and above) of dBASE. But
if you use that ActiveX, be sure you can deploy it!
When you run DbPlus, you may have to set up the activeX graphing package in order for it to show up in the activeX list---open a form, right-click the Components palette, and choose "Set up ActiveX components".
The 3rd-party graphing OCX that I use is TeeChart. It works with dBASE quite well, and although a few functions are inaccessible, there are work-arounds for most or all of them.
David
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| | From: | *Lysander* | | Subject: | Re: Active X components | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:49:30 +0100 |
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| In article <41F07444.109E28ED@wholegrain.com>, dlstone@wholegrain.com=20
says...
> if you use that ActiveX, be sure you can deploy it!
I do not know about the rest of the world, but in German law this would=20
be easy and clear. Ian bought the components together with 7.01 and he=20
also bought the right to deploy them. There is no such restriction=20
saying "only to be deployed with dBase 7 applications"...
So he can deploy them with another software-package.
If they are still on the same machine, they can be accessed via the "new=20
active-x component" button on the component-palette.
ciao,
Andr=E9
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| | From: | David Stone | | Subject: | Re: Active X components | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:59:14 -0800 |
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| *Lysander* wrote:
> In article <41F07444.109E28ED@wholegrain.com>, dlstone@wholegrain.com
> says...
> > if you use that ActiveX, be sure you can deploy it!
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> I do not know about the rest of the world, but in German law this would
> be easy and clear. Ian bought the components together with 7.01 and he
> also bought the right to deploy them. There is no such restriction
> saying "only to be deployed with dBase 7 applications"...
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> So he can deploy them with another software-package.
I didn't mean to suggest that the deployment was a legal issue depending on
the version of dBASE, but rather whether deployment was legal at all---the
package may have been included as a demo only---for single-person use rather
than for deployment. There is also the question of whether a deployed
version of it will work properly as the package may not have included the
necessary license.
David
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