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Advantage on Tokyo 10.2

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Hello,

 

I'm installing the trial version for Tokyo 10.2. Advantage seems to be disabled. I know there is no official support for it, but there are ways to make it work. How can I make the installer work for Advantage on Tokyo?

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Hello, Raoul.

I suppose you can compile the run-time package and install the design-time package after the installation. They should have names like "acQueryBuilderAdvantageDBxxx.dpk" and "acQueryBuilderDsgnAdvantageDBxxx.dpk". "xxx" is the internal number of your Delphi version.

Let me know if this doesn't help.

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Raoul W

Yes that helps thanks.

 

But I see that the Metadata Editor depends on the Assembly Advantage.Data.Provider 11.0.020 which si not available anymore, and if I read the docs correct I can not call the MetadataEditor from Code?

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Raoul W

Some more questions:

It seems I can only save and load metadata with the .NET edition?

Can I also show a list of functions?

 

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Hello, Raoul.

You probably downloaded the Metadata Editor for .NET. There are different editors for VCL and .NET editions. Please download the editor for VCL Edition here: https://www.activequerybuilder.com/files/metadata_editor.zip

Metadata Editor for VCL does not require any additional assemblies. You can call it by code: MetadataContainer.Edit();

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Where exactly you want to show a list of functions?

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Raoul W

Hi Sergej,

 

Thanks for your quick response.

 

- This metadata Editor asks for .NET Dataprovider 8.10 (Which is quite old)

- The MetaDataContainer.Edit method does not exist in my code....

 

 

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Raoul W

List of functions in the Table/List view? Or in code completion?

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Hello, Raoul.

Sorry for the incorrect answer. Use the static method 

EditMetadataContainer(acQueryBuilder1.MetadataContainer);

We will update references to Advantage in the standalone MC Editor in a couple of days.

Functions must be visible in the code completion of the TacSQLTextEditor control. Is that list incomplete or don't you see them at all?

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Raoul W

Yes that works for the editor, I see it now. I do not see my own functions in the Code Complete of the editor. How can I control the output of the Alias field names? I would like this to be the Alt names for fields and tables. Also how can I generate links? I saw there was a tool to create links from field names for DBS that do not have RI Objects, and how to create those in code.

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Raoul W

Hi, 

 

Are you able to look at the comment above?


Thanks,