ODBC lazarus / 5-Lazarus Extra Components ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alpulidom · 2004-10-15 21:59 Alguien sabe si hay componentes para accesar bases de datos ODBC? Components ODBC for lazarus? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lightning · 2004-10-16 19:10 Did you see anything written in spanish on this site ? Did you see something like spanish forum ? By any chance did your browser translate this site ? If you can read english you should at least try to write in english. Why do you need ODBC ? There are components to access most popular databases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Galileo · 2004-10-19 14:34 Lightning: Please be more patient... ;-) For some people (like me) is more easy read English than write it... Alpulidom: Try a look at: http://www.freepascal.org/packages/odbc.html Also, there is a new Lazarus Spanish forum: http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/FrePascal-Lazarus/ It seem very sleepy, but it can wake up. Have a nice day!!!  Eduardo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lightning · 2004-10-19 15:27 >90% of the programming languages are based on english so this is a must. My native language is romanian wich is similar to latin, spanish, italian, french, portughese, etc. but i learned english on-the-fly because i couldn't read english docs. I am verry patient by nature but more and more people are posting in various languages and they won't receive help from other people that don't speak these languages . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Ridinò · 2004-10-20 08:47 :idea: It could be an idea if there were a no-english (not other languages to avoid confusion with programming languages ;-) ) section on this forum just like the General Issues one, with 2 languages-forum like spanish and french (for example). This will help all those people not speaking english which are interested on Lazarus to get info and help. I could help forum admin/mod if required, since I speak italian, spanish (in addiction to english) and I have average knowledge of german, french, portuguese Let me know! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lightning · 2004-10-20 10:29 Maybe it's a good ideea to have forums in different languages like Free Pascal does but i'm affraid that by doing this many people will post only in the native language and information won't be available to everyone The forum admin is the one to decide if there will be national forums or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam.Pilorz · 2004-10-20 12:50 I agree with Lightning. Such forums are bad idea. People wouldn't help anybody speaking languages unpopular on this forum, and every programmer MUST learn english. My native language is polish, but naturaly I'm not writing here in polish, as most of people here couldn't understand me at all. I can be not as good in english as many people, but I think I can be understood, even if I'm writing with some mistakes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anonymous · 2006-01-17 08:41 By the way I hate you Lightning independently to you national membership because you have time to write English words about how important to write english but you don't have time to translate the words. I had several unsleepy nights with the usage of ODBC in lazarus. Now - I hope - I found a way and I have never seen written down. Maybe it is due to my lack of ability on English. Now mine is yours: You can use odbcsql unit for lazarus. lazarus/fpcsrc/packages/base/odbc/testodbc.pp shows how to use it. odbcsql uses the driver of Micro$oft. For example odbc32.dll The decription of this dll (which functions are in the dll and how to use them and when and why and so on) can be found on the pages of microsoft ODBC API REFERENCE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- us/odbc/htm/odbcodbc_api_reference.asp BUENOS DIAS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bram · 2007-05-02 07:53 Now there is also a SQLdb ODBC component, TODBCConnection. It is on the SQLdb component tab in Lazarus. I did not have time to document this on e.g. the wiki. Most important things are to look at the comments in the interface section of the unit odbcconn and to keep in mind that the ODBC connection string is built mainly from the Params property. BTW 'Components ODBC for lazarus?' should be understandable for anyone that understands English! And even with my limited knowledge of Spanish I can translate the first question (Does anyone know whether there are components for accessing ODBC databases?). So please try to help people instead of telling them how bad it is that they even dare to post in any other language than English.