Direct mode in Lazarus ?

[JanHolst]

Hi,

I have now had the chance to do a little testing of ODAC for Lazarus on both Windows and Linux. It seems to work fine and is very stable - not a single glitch so far; very good.

Two questions:

1) On Linux I only ever see six columns when I show a result set in a TDBGrid. Is that a limitation of the trial version ? I noticed that on Linux I do not see a nag message when I start up the trial, so is this the "nag feature" on Linux - or is it a bug / missing feature on Linux ?

I have tested with "select * from user_objects" and I only see the "OBJECT_NAME", "SUBOBJECT_NAME", "OBJECT_ID", "DATA_OBJECT", "OBJECT_TYPE", and "CREATED" columns even though there are 12 columns in reality.

When I use the ODAC trial on Windows I see all 12 columns without problems. I have tried with other tables too - same symptoms.

2) Direct mode - any chance that it is coming to Lazarus soon ? If you can provide it within a few weeks, you have an extra customer here (I need it for Windows and Linux at the moment) .

I wouldn't mind having to deploy a Direct DLL/SO along with the application if you need to keep the Direct source code confidential. As long as I can get rid of having to deploy 40+ MB Oracle DLLs - per platform.

Kind regards
-- Jan Holst Jensen

[AlexP]

Hello,

1) For the following platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX and Windows x64, in the trial versions, there is a restriction for the number of fields in DataSet (max is 6), but the trial term is not limited for these platforms.

2) We will try to add the FPC support for these platforms in the next version of ODAC

[JanHolst]

Hi,

1) OK, thanks for clarifying.

2) I will look forward to the next version then .

Cheers
-- Jan

[AlexP]

Hello,

We plan to release a new version with direct mode support for Lazarus in the end of March or in the beginning of April.

[JanHolst]

Thanks for the time estimate - now I can plan for it (I know that timing estimates are estimates and not promises ).

Cheers
-- Jan

[acsaba]

Hello!

Have you mananged to add the Direct mode option to Lazarus ? I am checking the current version (9.0) with lazarus 1.0.8 and still get error message: "Direct mode is not supported".

Thanks

Csaba

[AlexP]

Hello,

Unfortunately, due to release of the new unscheduled RAD Studio XE4, we had no time to implement this functionality for Lazarus. This feature is planned for the next version of the product.

[ysyang99]

I hope also support Lazarus Direct Mode

[AlexP]

Since we don't provide the Direct mode module in sources (just the binary), we encountered a problem during installation on different platforms. Lazarus supports quite a great number of platforms, and we can't compile this module for all of them. Moreover, the problem occurs during installation on those operation systems, which versions/cores differ from the ones, on which the product is build. Therefore, support for the Direct mode is not possible for the time being.

[ysyang99]

Please, can I get osx 32bit file?

[AlexP]

We don't support the Direct mode in OSX. Therefore even if we build the needed file for you, the Direct mode won't work.

[ysyang99]

Yes i understand. thank you very much

[AlexP]

Direct Mode for Lazarus is implemented. You can already download the new version from our website.