Hi Jason

I need to purchase your data access bundle for $395 but I need a
pro-forma invoice.



Could you please address the invoice to



First National Battery

Liverpool Rd

Benoni South

Gauteng

South Africa





Regards,

Ettienne Du Plessis

Business Systems Manager

First National Battery

Tel : 011 741 3698

Cell : 0832609266



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From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Jason Wharton
Sent: 22 January 2008 10:12
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [IBO] Future of IBobjects



Manfred,

> i am new in these group, but i am a long user of ibobjects.
> I always workin with Delphi 6. Now I want update my Delphi to
> Codegear's RAD-Tool.
> Before I buy the tool I have a few Question to Mr. Jason Wharton.

Fair enough!

> - work Ibobjects fine with Codegear's RAD-Tool.

Yes, but I am keeping up with WIN32 only.

I need to cross some hurdles surrounding my current time and money
constraints before I can begin in earnest to port to dot net.

> - what the plan in the future with ibonjects?

For the most part IBO is feature complete so my focus is to keep it as
stable as possible while keeping up to date with both Firebird and
InterBase.

Some features I want to get in are better handling of client-side
datasets
with client-side record sorting and better handling of international
character sets. I also want to have better off-line data management such
that connections can be disconnected and reconnected without the data
access
components getting errors and this will also enable better handling of
connection/network errors.

There are of course many visual controls I can continue to enhance on
the
visual side of things and a lot of niggles here and there with some of
the
grids that need some work.

One thing that really stands out as well is I need higher quality
documentation for some of IBO's lesser known capabilities. There is a
lot
in IBO that goes unused because most programmers don't venture into the
interface of the components and snoop around and look in code to make
use of
things.

> - i saw on your Homepage the last release was in August/2007 is there
> a new releas in the plan?

Yes, I am currently working on the next release.

I decided I would work on any Firebird 2.1 issues so I am reviewing this
prior to the release. For the past couple of years my average between
releases has gone to months instead of weeks. I remember when it used to
be
days.

Much of this trend is due to IBO being more stable but it is also due to
some personal issues that make it harder for me to spend as much time
with
IBO as I used to. These issues are not permanent and I long for their
resolve so that I can spend more time coding.

> Thank you for Answer

Thanks for asking!

Kind regards,
Jason Wharton





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