Oregon Delphi User Group

David Cornelius and Homer Jones (ODUG coordinator and assistant) would like to present some ideas about growing the Oregon Delphi User Group into a larger, perhaps more formal organization. Several ideas have been tossed around and we would like some discussion and feedback from you, the members of the group. Please join us at 6:00 PM for this important meeting. Pizza will be served and the regular meeting will follow.

Delphi provides several useful facilities for streamlining application development. In this presentation, we’ll explore several techniques used in the development of a multi-tier medical research application. Topics covered include: Using non-visual and visual inheritance Custom Form properties and events (available in the object inspector) Using the open Tools API to create form experts Using Patterns. If time allows, we will demonstrate the effect of these techniques in an actual application designed for a busy medical research facility.

What does an NT Service, a Socket, ADO, and XML have to do with each other? All four technologies are well supported by Delphi and all being utilized as part of one IVR application at Interactive Northwest. David just completed his first Windows NT Service application–and learned a LOT! He would like to share his experience with the group to help make others aware of issues lurking in the shadows of this type of beast.

Have you ever wanted to embed an InterBase installation along with user, database and table creation within the installation of your Delphi application? Obstacles, caveats and possible solutions will be explored. Although Wise Installation Systems will be utilized for part of the solution, the concepts should be able to be carried over to any installation tool. PRESENTER Jeff Sohler has considerable experience with Oracle and has worked with Delphi off and on since it’s inception.

Ed ran into quite a problem while trying to attach Word documents to an Interbase database—nothing seemed to work. He’ll show us the method that finally did the trick. He’ll also show the general outline of his system and the objects used. This is very extensive with about 50 forms and 50 tables. All of these are tied together with the users always having the same look and feel no matter where they are in the system.

Two medical applications will be discussed. The first application, named Bambi, is basically complete except for annual maintenance and can be seen at www.Bio-Optics.com. Bambi is used for evaluating the health of the cornea and diagnosing eye disease. Bambi captures video images of a monolayer of cells of the cornea of the eye from special corneal microscopes, enhances the image if desired, and allows morphometric parameters (number of cells/mm2, variation of cell sizes, etc.

Moving your applications from troublesome Paradox files to robust InterBase? What are some of the things you will encounter? After just finishing up such an application, David will show why you will need stored procedures and triggers when you’ve lived just fine without them before. PRESENTER David Cornelius has been a developer for 15 years working mostly on the DOS and Windows platforms using Borland’s Pascal compilers. He is currently consulting through ATSI Group.

How many Environment or Editor options have you looked at? Do you have any Delphi Plug-ins installed? David will explain how enhancing Delphi 5’s IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, has helped him increase productivity. Two plug-ins, GExperts and CodeRush>, will show the incredible power of this RAD environment and expand your idea of productivity. PRESENTER David Cornelius has been a developer for 15 years working mostly on the DOS and Windows platforms using Borland’s Pascal compilers.

Come and discover the industry’s first RAD Web Services platform! Learn how Delphi 6 makes next generation e-business development a snap, with BizSnap, WebSnap, and DataSnap. Build Web Services and consumers using industry standard XML, WSDL, and other protocols with BizSnap! See how Delphi brings RAD to the Web development team with WebSnap! Learn how Delphi enables you to enter new markets and increase your return on investment by combining with Kylix to use a single code base to develop cross platform Linux/Windows Applications.

Chuck Vertrees from Extended Systems, Inc. will be presenting a technical overview and demonstration of Advantage Database Server and XTNDConnect RPM. Don’t miss this informative presentation covering all areas of Delphi development for client/server, n-tier and mobile/wireless environments. Valuable door prizes will be given!! Advantage Database Server Advantage Database Server is a scalable, high performance client/server DBMS for networked, standalone, Internet and mobile database applications. The Advantage Database Server supports the NetWare, Windows NT/2000, and Windows 95/98 operating systems.