newbi looking for relief
lazarus / 9-Editor

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slayfist · 2007-02-20 03:13

Hi folks,

I have been a low tech user of delphi for several years and would like
to experiment with lazarus.  So, I installed it onto windows (just not
good enough at linux programming to try it there yet).  Anyhow, it
installs nicely, and here is what I tried doing:
Creted a dbf in excel, saved it to c:\lazarus test
Created a new form in lazarus, droped a tdbf, tdatasource, tdbnav,
tdbgrid and set their properties to reference the dbf (all the stuff
that usually works in delphi and using advantage database).  When I
tried to activate the dbf - I got a run time error 202.  Fine, figured
I set something wrong ... checked, changed something (I know I am
vague) but then I tried to activate it again, lazarus shuts down
completely.  So I tried essentially the same thing but this time using
a data module to throw the database components onto instead of a form.
 But this time, I could even get past file new datamodule before it
barfed.

Am I doing something wrong ?


slayfist

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Vincent Snijders · 2007-02-20 08:33

Quote from: "slayfist"I have been a low tech user of delphi for
several years and would like to experiment with lazarus.  So, I
installed it onto windows (just not good enough at linux programming
to try it there yet).  Anyhow, it installs nicely, and here is what I
tried doing:
Creted a dbf in excel, saved it to c:\lazarus test
Created a new form in lazarus, droped a tdbf, tdatasource, tdbnav,
tdbgrid and set their properties to reference the dbf (all the stuff
that usually works in delphi and using advantage database).  When I
tried to activate the dbf - I got a run time error 202.  Fine, figured
I set something wrong ... checked, changed something (I know I am
vague) but then I tried to activate it again, lazarus shuts down
completely.

Please, create a bug report with the testprogram and relevant
testdata.

QuoteSo I tried essentially the same thing but this time using a data
module to throw the database components onto instead of a form.  But
this time, I could even get past file new datamodule before it barfed.
This bug has been fixed in lazarus 0.9.21.

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slayfist · 2007-02-21 01:52

Where would I get 0.9.21, all I see on the download page is
Lazarus-0.9.20-fpc-2.0.4-20061105-win32.exe?

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Zorba · 2007-02-21 16:43

You can get it from the Daily Snapshots.

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slayfist · 2007-02-22 00:14

Going to try that daaily snapshots download now!