one field. in the lcl, TSpeedButton.FState was made private in the lcl, odd as it sounds that 'F' state(which are usually private) is actually a protected field and almost always required by descendent controls(I have made a few in delphi so I know). This meant the one error. I changed it in current cvs saturday, so maybe the snapshot isn't up to date?

Andrew

Hi Andrew

I tried to compile in win32 and got the following:

Compiling dsnavigator.pas
dsnavigator.pas(265,14) Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here
dsnavigator.pas(734) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping

Have not tried it in linux yet (can only do that at home tonight). Do I have an older/different (fpc-1.0.10) version of fpc than you. (downloaded lazarus snapshot this morning).

Kind regards
Andrew Higgs

OK rather then sending this to the list and bog down stuff, I tried to upload it to my site.

http://www.ajgenius.us/random/LCLDBTest.tar.gz

I have hacked around a few issues with DataSet in my text table, fixed a cancel error; got DataLink working around fcl bug; broke out stuff, and implemented a basic TDBEdit. The test app auto adds info to the table on load(another hack since field loading is broken in the fcl), and this time I managed to get a semi-working dsnavigator in there(nothing changed actual design so still not compatible with delphi's thus the different name).

Navigating mostly works, delete edit post cancel and insert mostly work(note the workarounds for delete and post). do not delete if there is only one record. stuff dies. refresh is silly nothing which may or may not do anything worthwhile have no clue if the bookmarks work.

The DB aware components do seem to be properly updating barring the one issue with edit and post(which I have the specific temp workaround for), so I see no reason people couldn't start fleshing out these two controls and implementing the other basic ones I mentioned in my earlier post.

Since this Text table is very basic, additions to it would of course also be welcome but I figure it serves the needed purpose of a distributable test system without extra deps like MySQl, Interbase et al. Adding extra fields should also work, but again we need the silly hack to add info first then close and reopen to make sure the TField's get created. so follow my initial lead on that.

For those who want to help out with the FCL implementation stuff. Well its hard to say but, for example look at my workarounds, and open db.pas and dateset.inc in the FCL and just look for Not implemented. you won't find a shortage of work. also converting fields to a collection etc as was mentioned earlier would be a great help.

A note for those graphics artist who want a shot, we need those wonderfull arrow edit cancel post etc glyphs so we can get past the all text on the navigator.

hope others out there can help, the more who can the faster this can be truly useable for people, and maybe even builtin into an lcl db package and in lazarus by default. :)

Andrew

Hi Andrew

I tried to compile in win32 and got the following:

Compiling dsnavigator.pas
dsnavigator.pas(265,14) Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here
dsnavigator.pas(734) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping

Have not tried it in linux yet (can only do that at home tonight). Do I have an older/different (fpc-1.0.10) version of fpc than you. (downloaded lazarus snapshot this morning).

Kind regards
Andrew Higgs

Andrew Johnson wrote

one field. in the lcl, TSpeedButton.FState was made private in the lcl, odd as it sounds that 'F' state(which are usually private) is actually a protected field and almost always required by descendent controls(I have made a few in delphi so I know).

Hmm.. can't it stay private and use a protected read property ?

Marc