RE: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Crystal Reports 8.5

[Paul S. <pa...@tr...>]

Dmitry Yemanov Wrote on 02/15/2002 23:11:04
>Hi Kevin,

>> Has anyone tried the ODBC driver with Crystal 
Reports?

Dmitry:

I am trying to reply to this, having scraped the text 
from the archive, hopefully the result is 
understandable.

>Yep, but I wouldn't call it a successful attempt. 
>After some debugging, I've
>finally found and fixed the main problem and Crystal 
>(I use version 8.0)
>started to work with this driver and my databases, 
>but... not exactly the
>way I expected it to work. There's one magic issue I 
>still cannot figure
>out. For the time being, I've stopped all my 
>investigations due to complete
>lack of time and my changes are still in my private 
>source tree, but, once
>the remaining problem is solved, I'll commit the 
>changes to the main CVS
>tree or upload them as a separate patch.

Could you send me your source, and let me take a look 
at it, sometimes another pair of eyes can help.  I 
have an old version of Crystal (4 actually -- planning 
to upgrade RSN), and the driver seems to work as is, 
except that on a Dialect 3 database dates and times 
look really wierd, unless I do really oddball stuff, 
like use a view to turn a time into a string field, I 
would hate to do that with dates as well, then again 
Crystal 4 doesn't support time fields (kind of dumb 
IMNSHO).  The main CVS tree is downright ancient, I 
was thinking it had actually been abandoned.

Thanks,

Paul








>Anyway, could you provide more information about your 
>problems (if you have them)?

Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
pa...@tr...
www.tricattechnologies.com