2936:Delphi 1.02 Maintenance Release Information
KEYWORDS: Delphi 1.02, PreSales Information AREA: Product Info
THE DELPHI 1.02 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
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BRIEF OVERVIEW OF DELPHI 1.02
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Thank you for your interest in Borland's new RADical application
development tool, Delphi. Below you will find information
regarding the product's overview as well as the problems fixed with
this release, but here, we would like to give you a brief
overview of Delphi 1.02.
o The Delphi 1.02 maintenance release is not a patch; it is a
complete product.
o This release is available only through Borland. It is not
available via CompuServe, Borland's Web site, Borland's
FTP site, or resellers.
o This maintenance release includes the patch release of
Delphi 1.01.
o Delphi 1.02 is not Delphi32. Delphi32 will be released as
a separate product.
To order the Delphi 1.02 maintenance release, please call our
Order Desk at 800-453-3375 extension 1327.
NOTE: All printed and online documentation assume that you
have installed Delphi using the default directory structure.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Product overview
2. Problems fixed in this release
3. Delphi Supplemental Documentation Set
4. Minimum system requirements
1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW
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Delphi's visual design environment lets you create sophisticated
Windows applications faster than any other development tool.
Because Delphi is built around and optimizing native code
compiler, Delphi applications are up to 10-20 times faster than
interpreted code.
Delphi integrates the Borland Database Engine, so you have
instant support for dBase, Paradox, and ODBC local databases.
Delphi includes the Local InterBase Server so you can create
standalone client/server applications with a high-performance
ANSI SQL-92 compatible database server.
Delphi includes Borland's award-winning ReportSmith report
writing tool, which allows programmers to prepare innovative
reports using live data in all popular database formats.
Delphi Client/Server includes all of Delphi plus high performance
native drivers for Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix
and InterBase remote servers with unlimited application
deployment. You also get team development support, ReportSmith
SQL, a Visual Query Builder, source code to the Visual Component
Library (VCL), and the Local InterBase Server Deployment Kit.
Delphi includes an Open Tools API capability that allows
you to extend the Delphi environment to include your own tools,
experts, and so on. By using this API, you can seamlessly integrate
these extensions into the Delphi environment. For details,
refer to the file TOOLINTF.PAS located in the \DELPHI\DOC for Delphi
or in the \DELPHI\SOURCE\VCL directory for Delphi Client/Server.
Source code for an example expert is also located in the
\DELPHI\DEMOS\EXPERTS directory.
2. PROBLEMS FIXED IN THIS RELEASE
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The purpose of this section is to provide a general list of
problems that are fixed in the 1.02 Delphi release.
ReportSmith
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o Create master/detail reports to combine multiple reports in one
using heterogenous data.
o Choose to group, sort or summarize data locally or on a database
server.
o Access data using Borland's BDE drivers.
o Include columns in a report for query-only or value-only.
o Utilize an updated ReportBasic macro language.
o Place page totals to display summary values for each page in a
report.
o Create data dictionaries to use with the PC or SQL versions of
ReportSmith, to simplify the view of the data.
Delphi
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o Fixed problems in the Delphi online help system.
Local InterBase
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o Improved performance of index creation and SQL request involving
sort operations on data that exceeds the database cache as
defined during database create.
o Improved I/O diagnostic and error messages from the server.
o Enhanced the Local InterBase engine to handle complex requests
that reference more than 500 columns causing internal buffers
to exceed 64k.
o Improved performance of Local InterBase requests that reference
more than 500 columns.
o Removed the Local InterBase internal requirement
that databases have a page size of 1024. It is now
possible to create and use a Database specifying any
allowable InterBase page size.
o Numeric overflow errors are now trapped by Local
InterBase and reported correctly to the client application.
o Fixed the incompatibility with Dashboard when using DashBoard,
from Starfish Inc., and viewing users in the InterBase
security database (Task|User Security) with the InterBase Server
Manager tool.
o Fixed cleanup problems encountered when exiting the Windows
Interactive SQL tool while executing a database validate
(Task|Database Validate) in the InterBase Server Manager.
BDE
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This version of the Borland Database Engine is the same version
that is used with the new Visual dBASE 5.5.
o Fixed TQuery and TTable so that they support Oracle synonyms.
Synonyms can now be viewed by typing its name in the name
table property.
o Editing now supported of an opened Paradox table simultaneously
in Delphi with referential integrity constraints.
o Fixed the ability to support Stored Procedures that have string
parameters.
o Fixed problems relating to accessing tables on Lantastic 6.0
network.
o Removed the nine parameter limitation for SQL queries.
o Fixed problems relating to opening Access 2.0 files through ODBC.
o Fixed DBD so that it is now able to open Watcom 4.0 tables.
o Fixed 32K memory leak associated with live-query results sets and
also for local queries involving joins.
o Fixed problem moving batch from ASCII fixed-length files.
o Now supports the SYBASE forcedindex feature.
3. DELPHI SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTATION SET
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The Supplemental Documentation Set includes the following:
o Object Pascal Language Reference Guide
(objlang.pdf is 1.3M.)
o Delphi Visual Component Library
Reference (vclref.pdf is 5.1M.)
In the United States, you can purchase hard copy versions of the
Delphi Supplemental Documentation Set by calling the Borland
order desk at 1-800-331-0877.
Internationally, you can purchase hard copy versions of the
Delphi Supplemental Documentation Set by contacting the
nearest Borland office.
4. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Delphi requires Windows 3.1 or a 100% compatible operating
system, an 80386 or newer processor (486 recommended), and 6Mb of
system memory (Delphi Client/Server requires 8Mb, 12Mb or more is
recommended for Client/Server development). A minimum
installation requires approximately 30Mb of disk space (a full
installation of Delphi Client/Server requires approximately
80Mb).
DCC.EXE, the DOS command-line compiler, requires at least 1Mb of
extended memory.
Delphi has been tested under Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups
3.11, Windows NT 3.5, OS/2 Warp, and Windows 95.
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