Jerry,

I had mentioned that I thought I'd get a chance to go to the free demo today. Alas life intervened into my plans and I'm stuck at work - so no report as I had promised. Sory.

Now that I have taken care of that I'd like to ask a few questions.

1) Is there any possibility of coexistance with VFP? That is, for example, could I have a West Wind Web Connection app and also squirt the data from that app into a Linux-based data manager like (what's available? Sybase, DB2?) SQL?

2) What about local data binding or is that the best approach?

3) Where would you use Kylix + Linux and find it the most useful?

Thanks!

Best,

DD



>1) A simple Kylix binary of a form with only one control, a "Close" button, is 396,000 bytes. When I examined the binary with a hex editor I found the phrase "Delphi for Linux, Version 14".
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>2) Kylix has the equivilent of "Intellisense", including "." activation and key sorting, and it works VERY nicely!
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>3) Kylix has an Alignment tool that looks and works like VFP's.
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>4) Just like VFP, you can open multiple projects at the same time.
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>5) From my playing around I've come to the conclusion that Kylix is as easy to sue as VFP and has more features and power. You can copy, inherit or use objects in the repository. Copying doesn't use inheritance. Inheriting an object allows changes in the repository object to affect the inherited children. Using an object in the repository allows changes to the object in an app to be inherited by the object in the repository. Sort of like backwards inheritance. One can add objects to the repository. They become sort of like 'templates', as Borland refers to them, or like VFP class members.
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>So far I am very pleased!
>JLK