DBExtender for Delphi version 0.99b copyright © 1995 Gfi mbH november 1995 Introduction DBExtender for Delphi offers you two new components (TDBExtender and TDBENaviagtor) to give the DB-functions of Delphi a real burst (including BDE-filtering). The TDBExtender-component enriches the databased possibility of Delphi and it's components. As a 'Plug&Play'-component, you simply drop it on your form and get 'standard'-database-functions like recordchanging through hotkeys within datasensitive dialogobjects, searching on non-indexed fields, lookup via the tabledefinition with takeover of fields having the same name, tabelfiltering, etc. WITHOUT even a single line of coding ! All functions harmonize with the components shipped with Delphi, without changing them. Therefore you get the guarantee, that you can use Delphi-Updates without any adaptation to your DBExtender. The TDBENavigator can be interpreted as a subclass of the standard TDBNavigator, with some 'smaller' changes. All TDBExtender-functions, which can be accessed through hotkey, are presented as Speedbuttons. As the TDBENavigator is linked to a TDBExtender found in the form, you have no need to link the navigator to a certain TDataSource. The Navigator is automatically switch to the active DataSource, defined be the focused dialogobject. The special clou: this kind of link works too, if the navigator is placed in the MDI-Frame-Form. The result: Place on or more TDBENavigators within a panel placed in the frame-form of a MDI-application and control all tables of the active MDI-child through this navigator. Functions: - Online-Help integrateble within the IDE - Changing focused dialogobjects through [Enter] (TAB-replacement in BOTH directions) - Search on non-indexed fields (incl. search using substrings and memos) - Define the directions of search (also temporary for continued search) - Management of Bookmarks - Tablefiltering (using highspeed BDE-Filters) - Tableview (distinguishes between fsNormal, fsMDIChild) - Manoeuvre by group - Duplicate fields - Duplicate records - LookUp (like in Paradox, according to the tabledefinition) - Turn Form-Global editing on/off - Vertical navigator - Automatic management of navigators within MDI-applications - Showing the table-status within a panel (RecNo, RecCount, Tablename, TableState) - DBExceptionhandling, showing the messages within a panel Copyright and Distribution policy DBExtender for Delphi version 0.92b is free to distribute and use in your programs. If you distribute it you must do so without changing anything in the original zip file. You use this program at your own risk. We are not responsible for any loss or damage caused by the use of DBExtender for Delphi. DBExtender for Delphi is copyright 1995 Gfi mbH Rüsselsheim. Remember that until version 1.0 THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE. There are bugs and all features might not work 100% as planned - yet.