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Steven J. Serenska · Guest

Ladies and Gentlemen:

[I am new to this group so please let me know if this type of post
should be submitted elsewhere.]

I just began upgrading an older Delphi port to the SQLAnywhere/ASA
dbTools library. My objective is to get it all to run on Delphi 7 =>
ASA9.x.

I have some original 16-bit Delphi code that interfaced with ASA v5.5.
The code was fairly well architected and has served as a good model.
However, I'm having trouble getting DBTools9.dll to respond correctly
(e.g., calling DBToolsInit and then successfully calling DBCompress). I
think I'm running into as many issues going from 16- to 32-bit Delphi as
I am going from v5.5 to v9 of SQLA.

Before I undertake a many days of conversion/debugging, does anyone
(including vendors) have a working version of a 32-bit Delphi port of
the ASA9 DBTools library? In addition to the Delphi mapping of
DBTools.H, I would like to see how calls are made to DBCompress,
DBExpand, and DBValidate (plus DBToolsINIT and DBToolsFINI).

Frankly, if anyone has ANY functioning Delphi 4/5/6/7 code which
successfully calls any of the DBTools routines within ASA 6/7/8/9, I
would be interested in seeing how it was done. While I am not an expert
coder, my thinking is that if I can see a working model, it will make
life easier.

If I do get it working and others are interested, I would be willing to
put together all the code samples I receive and publish a Delphi/DBTools
interface on a website somewhere.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help.

Steven J. Serenska

Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer · Guest

Dear Steven,

because you do not use dbExpress, the dbExpress group is probably not the
best matching one; instead, the "general" delphi database group might match
better.

Or, because you specifically want to use the Sybase ASA DBMS, you might also
be interested in the group
news://forums.sybase.com/sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general

Anyway: There already exists a project which directly communicates with
several Sybase DBMS, which is called "SaVcl":

http://savcl.narod.ru/en.html

But as far as I could find out, it does not use DBTools, instead it uses the
dblib#.dll / sadll##.dll directly.

Steven J. Serenska · Guest

Mario:

Thanks for your response. I'll move this discussion over to the
"general" forum and will check out the links you provided.

SJS

Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer wrote: