Hi,

I am just getting to know Lazarus, it is really promising. :) But at the monent I am focusing on it, bacause I am hoping that it could be the development tool I am looking for to make a small application for WinCE. So my questions are:

- I understand that the WinCE related code is still in beta. Do I have a chance to make a bug free app with it now? I only need the basic DB related components.
- Is LazReport ready (or very close to ready) for WinCE? Tried to compile the latest source from SVN, but it seems that at least some of the units are incomplete. Is there any older version of LazReport which can be compiled for the WinCE platform?

Best Regards, CC
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I'm the main wince developer at the moment, but I don't have any project using databases on wince, so I can't help much here.

- I understand that the WinCE related code is still in beta. Do I have a chance to make a bug free app with it now? I only need the basic DB related components.

As far as I remember data-aware controls didn't work on 0.9.24, but I did a small test with the svn version and it was working. Using the svn version isn't easy, but there is a guide here:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Interface#Setting_up_the_Windows_CE_interface_manually

I would advise you to try with the latest svn and report back, also with bug reports on the bug tracker.

- Is LazReport ready (or very close to ready) for WinCE? Tried to compile the latest source from SVN, but it seems that at least some of the units are incomplete. Is there any older version of LazReport which can be compiled for the WinCE platform?

Try with the lazreport which comes with Lazarus. lazarus/componentslazreport

That should at least compile.

Hi,

The links you provided are exactely what I needed to get started. I do not have much time to finish this PDA project, so I am still consodering which way to take. I really like what the FPC-Lazarus project is becoming, I wish I could be convinced to go this way. :)

Thank you for your quick reaction. :)

Leslie

The links you provided are exactely what I needed to get started. I do not have much time to finish this PDA project, so I am still consodering which way to take. I really like what the FPC-Lazarus project is becoming, I wish I could be convinced to go this way. :)

When it comes to Windows CE are aren't many other options. The most probably other one would be .NET. We offer a better solution then .NET because we offer exactly the same GUI API for desktops and for PDAs. While working on our WinCE port I often had to search on the internet how to implement something, and several times I found people complaining about things with work on the .NET for desktops, but isn't available on the Compact Framework, so we actually offer more then MS in this respect =)

Of course our library isn't as stable as theirs, so if you develop using it you may need to help us improve it.

thanks,