RE: TZF - On the subject of components

Hi Benno,

I agree with you that the TP stuff is now dead as far as updates are
concerned... But this has never been as big an issue for me as having
the source code. I was the first (I think) to update FlashFiler and
Orpheus for D6 when it came out (Turbopower were a bit notorious for
'needing' to release a new version - chargeable - whenever a new Delphi
came out!) so I'm not too bothered about making things work with new
versions of Delphi/CBuilder either LOL.

I've been deploying FlashFiler for years (originally the 1.21 version
but right through to the 'current') and have never found bugs to be a
major factor... I think it is like many C/S setups... It needs a little
care and consideration in the usage.

I too still find plenty of uses for Topaz... It has a very small
footprint and nice 'automatic' creation facilities that make it ideal
for just dropping a little data-handling into an application but when I
need anything C/S FlashFiler fits the bill nicely... To put it in
perspective in one of my larger projects FlashFiler was able to replace
Sybase SQLAnywhere and save me a fortune!

A.

-----Original Message-----
From: B. Evers [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 10 November 2003 09:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: TZF - On the subject of components


Alex,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Mackinnon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: TZF - On the subject of components
>

The Turbo Power components are great, but the projects are currently not
maintained at sourceforge. New delphi versions will probably loose
support and also there is nobody to knock on the door in case of
problems. Mail through sourceforge to the projectmaintainer bounces or
is not answered.

> FlashFiler for instance is especially useful when you want a more 
> sophisticated client-server database or when DBase compatibility is 
> not an issue.

Flashfiler was extremely buggy (I think that is one of the problems of
TurboPower before they stopped). Also flashfiler lacks a lot of
functionality a client server database needs.

I discussed the concept of flash filer as an ad on for Topaz with Alfred
about 2 years ago. His answer was that Topaz is good for what it does,
but building a server around it would be a waist of time. I now agree
with him. Topaz is great for single user apps and can be used for apps
in small muli-user environments. Is has the same problems as all
databases on this concept (M$-access, Flash-filer, dbase, Advantage,
Apollo etc). You can't guarantee data integrity of your database.

For me Topaz is still an option. I use it in single user apps, and when
I need dos clients (yes they are still build today :) ). As soon as I
expect it to be multi user (now or future) I choose Interbase open
edition of firebird as the database engine. In that case Topaz comes in
for local caching of data, and for Gui stuff (I cache my data and
connect my GUI to Topaz datasets).

Just my 2 cents

Benno Evers

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