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At 12:35 AM 5/3/99 -0400, Tom Cathey wrote:
>Yo Bros:
>
>Well, after checking out the web sites and info I received from members I
>have zeroed in on using the following:
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>1) The $99 standard Borland Delphi package.
>
>2) The standard $385 Universal Server package. (not sure if this version
>will feed Excel, if I need to later)
>
>
>Does anyone see a major limitation using these vs: buying the Delphi Pro
>$1000 version and/or the $1200 SDK Universal Server?
You won't have any way to get data out of the UMDS without the SDK. Buying
the dongle (vs. using the freeware single-user version) allows you to use
multiple applications that access the UMDS simultaneously -- but the
application needs to do the access. You have no way of programmatically
accessing the UMDS without the SDK. If you're planning on using the DDE
interface, then you should know that this is, for all practical purposes,
non-functional. This is one of the items slated for improvement in version
3 (originally slated for delivery last summer -- a perfect example of
slipping delivery dates with complex software).
Another option is to spoof the way Excel does DDE and use Win32 SDK calls
to access data from Omega Server. That does take some low-level programming
techniques. And you have to put up with a variety of Omega bugs (sorry,
"features") along the way.
Allan
"When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues." - Les Brown
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