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webadmin@datadynamics.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Eric Johnson - Data Dynamics<ActiveReports.Support@datadynamics.com>

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All DCube developers please read.

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Josh Thomas<nospam@nospam.com>

Below is a copy of a thread that was post on DD's new online forum. Please
either post a response here on on their website if you would pay for a new
major upgrade.

Link:

Thanks

Josh Thomas

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Yes, there is a future for Dynamicube as an activeX control."

I think that there can only be a future if DD has a major upgrade release.

"We would PAY immediately for a major upgrade, that is free of the pending
bugs."
I agree.

Can all other developers that read this post a response and say if they
would pay for an upgrade.

Thanks

Josh Thomas

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Ernst

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 2
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-15-2003 11:51 AM

Dynamicube has done a lot of positive things for us in the past.
Yes, there is a future for Dynamicube as an activeX control.

We would PAY immediately for a major upgrade, that is free of the pending
bugs. We understand that your chimney must continue to be smoking (probably
incorrect English)

The biggest condition to buy such an upgrade would be that the new version
is compatible with the older ones (so, do not remove any events or methods
or change parameters on a method). We do not want to be obligated to change
and test all the older applications.

Yes, there is a future for Dynamicube as an activeX control.

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MarkStals

Joined: 11 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 3
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 02:56 PM

Two rival OLAP tools for Delphi rely on TeeChart for graphing their Cubes.
This component is not only available as in VCL format, but also as a ActiveX
and .Net control as well. Check out www.steema.com for more information.

As I mentioned in an previous post, .net is not an option for me for the
next 3 years at least. My current employer (with 720 employees) sees IT more
as a necessary evil than anything else. My targeted end users work on
anything from a Pentium I with Windows95 to a Pentium IV with Windows 2000.
Requests for better machines are routinely answered with a extensive no.
Using a web interface is no soltion either, as the various offices are
connected with a low bandwith line.

And this attitude towards IT is common amongst the majority of companies I
worked for/with in the last 5 years.

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Josh Thomas

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 12
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 12:12 PM

How about an Activex control that works in .net. That way you can make VB
developers happy and .net developers somewhat happy. I still have a massive
VB app that I need to keep but I am also developing new modules for that app
that will be written in c#, so I need both.

I know that I, and other developers in my company, have said some tough
things in DD newsgroups concerning DCube but I feel that DCube was pushed
aside in favor of something that makes more money. Making money is what
everybody, including myself, is working towards, but sometimes making your
customers happy is more important.

I see that you mentioned the graph enhancement but what about fixing the
bugs first?

Josh Thomas

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Issam Elbaytam

Joined: 18 Jun 2003
Total Posts: 8
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 11:24 AM

Thank you for your feedback and we appreciate your interest in DynamiCube.
While our focus currently is on the main revenue generating products for the
health of our business. DynamiCube is still an integral part of our overall
starategy to deliver a set of components for Data Analysis and Information
Delivery.

Mark mentioned the graph that is almost an essential requirement for
DynamiCube, that is something that we're seriously looking into. However,
it is a massive project on its own outside of all what needs to be done with
DynamiCube.

I do have one question in return to all of you. Our development focus is
shifting towards .net components, is this the same direction that you're
heading? or are you still in need for an activex version of dynamicube?

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Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 12
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 10:46 AM

I have seen many posts like this and I wonder if DD will ever get the point.
I guess they don't have the money to hire a dedicated developer for DCube
but they sure have a pretty website now.

Josh Thomas

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Joined: 11 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 3
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 09:52 AM

Well Josh, I just read all messages in your thread and none of the replies
from DD said anything different than what they been saying for the past 4
years. It all boils down to "we won't forget DynamiCube but for the moment
we're to busy with [any other control]". It is a shame.
Back in 1995 DynamiCube was their first control, and it was a gem back then.

I've shown my key users a trial version of a new project using both OLAP
controls on the same set of data. DC scored on screen usage and printing,
but the other control won them over thanks to built-in customizable graphs,
cleaner export to Excel and HTML, and more on the fly data comparison
options than is good for them.
No points for guessing which control I'm using now in this project. Its
documentation is a far cry from the excellent DC manual, but I'm very glad
it's a Delphi VCL control with full source code.

In it's current form and with the current competitors, DC's lack of built-in
graphs is a showstopper for my end users. Looks do matter after all...

Please DataDynamics, get some people to work exclusively to work on DC3.
Only that will generate sufficient cash from upgrades and new customers.

Let me know when it's done,

Best wishes.

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Josh Thomas

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 12
Re: Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 07:46 AM

See my posts in the "New build of DCube for .Net" thread for my thoughts

Josh Thomas

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MarkStals

Joined: 11 Sep 2003
Total Posts: 3
Is there a future for DynamiCube as an ActiveX control?
Posted: 09-11-2003 01:04 AM

Well, the subject says it all. It has been an extremely long time since
DynamiCube ActiveX had a major upgrade. IMHO some competitors have overtaken
this decent control in several areas, but DynamiCube has got a few areas in
which it is not matched yet (namely printing and screen usage).

For me DynamiCube for .Net is not an option, since my employer is not even
remotely planning to switch to .Net.

Any comments would be welcome.

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webadmin@datadynamics.com — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Eric Johnson - Data Dynamics<ActiveReports.Support@datadynamics.com>

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Using Foxpro 2.6 or 6.0 free tables

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: farid<farid1234567890@kedaung1234567890.com>

Hi All,

I'm trying to use Dynamicube with Foxpro free tables using DAO and ADO. So
far so good, except it's faild to load time series data. What are the
template for parsing date type data into Year, Qtr, Month?

Please help

Thanks

Beta Release

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Lucas \(DD\)<dynamicube.support@datadynamics.com>

DynamiCube Gurus,

Here is a link to our latest beta release:
ftp://ftp.datadynamics.com/dynamicube/beta/DCBeta2531029.exe. Please install
the beta when you get the chance and report all feedback to
dynamicube.support@datadynamics.com. We appreciate any and all feedback
(good or bad). This build is a potential SP1 candidate.

Thanks again,

Lucas
DD Support

Using dCube.ColHeading(lnis, lni)

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Farouk Yew Abdullah<tfyew@pc.jaring.my>

Hi all,

Can anyone spot what is wrong on "WAIT WINDOW [laLabels Type: ] +
TYPE("laLabels[liPoints]")" ?

I expected a string but it is of object type. I want to get the label of the
column.

STORE 0 TO liPoints

IF Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.SelStartCol <= ;

Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.SelEndCol

lnis = Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.SelStartCol

lnie = Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.SelEndCol

ELSE

lnis = Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.SelEndCol

lnie = Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.SelStartCol

ENDIF

DO WHILE lnis <= lnie

liPoints = liPoints + 1

DIME laLabels[liPoints]

FOR lni = 1 TO Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.ColDepth(lnis)

laLabels[liPoints] = Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.ColHeading(lnis, lni)

WAIT WINDOW [laLabels Type: ] + TYPE("laLabels[liPoints]")

NEXT

lnis = Thisform.Pgf1.Page1.dCube1.NextCol(lnis)

ENDDO

Regards.

Average Total in DCube

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Sun, 13 Oct 2002 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Jerrica Tan Siew Phing<jerrytan@visualsolutions.com.my>

Hi all,

I've been trying to set the aggregate function for the total as average
instead of the default summation. I've checked the help files mentioned
about the AggregateFunc() and GroupFooterType() functions to be used. I've
tried both but still the aggregate is still summation.
Has anyone been able to change the aggregate function to average using VFP
itself? Pls advise.

Rgrds.

DyanamiCube and VFP 6?

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Mon, 07 May 2001 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Tom Bellmer<tbellmer@sky.net>

I'd like to consider using DyanamiCube with VFP 6 data to post the output to
the internet. Anyone had any luck doing this?

Anyone have any experience using DCube with Visual FoxPro?

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: <>

Apparently there have been problems using DynamiCube
with Visual FoxPro.
Is there anybody out there that:
(1) Is currently using DCube with Visual FoxPro?
(2) Has tried to use DCube with Visual FoxPro but
ran into problems?

If so, could you please give me(via a post here,
or direct email) some details such as:
- what version of Visual FoxPro
- what version of DynamiCube
- what, if any, problems you have experienced

Thanks

Dave
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To reply via email, edit my email address first.

Anybody done a COM wrapper around DCube?

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: <>

I want to look into the option of creating a COM
object wrapper for DynamiCube, and use this
in my project, rather than hosting DCube directly
on a form in the project(the project uses Visual FoxPro,
which has some problem with DCube).

I would probably using Visual Basic 6 to create
the COM object.

Has anyone out there done this(in VB or not),
and if so, did you have any problems, and do
you have any sample code to share?

Thanks

Dave
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To reply via email, edit my email address first.

Error 1018 in latest SP

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Sun, 04 Jun 2000 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Chet Joglekar<joglekar@email.msn.com>

I cannot seem to get past this error. I am trying to load a .cub file onto
a form with an empty activeX loaded. On form init, as soon as any UI
happens (like a file open so user can choose a cub file) this error event
fires. This never happened in prior versions of the system. I have tried
overwriting the error event, but no luck.

Saving .CUB file with VFP

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Wed, 03 May 2000 06:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Jerrica Tan<vspg@tm.net.my>

Without invoking the visual portion of DynamiCube (from a VFP form), I need
to create a .cub file on-the-fly. What I am attempting to do is create the
.cub file from a class object, save the file, and then have a web page to
display the DynamiCube.

I'm calling FetchData to add data and QueryCompleted to save the microcube
directly from my program but often the file saved was faulty. I tried to get
DynamiCube's events to fire by calling the RefreshData method from my
program but it doesn't work. Help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Service Pack

webadmin@datadynamics.com — Wed, 05 Jan 2000 07:00:00 GMT

Originally Posted By: Troy Murphy<solutionsoft@home.com>

I just installed the latest service pack (after missing several) and now I
cant seem to get a simple dbf to load into the Cube. I get: "Cannot Open
Table". I have ensured that the table is not open.

Properties:
dcconnect=FoxPro 3.0;
dcconnecttype=1
dcdatabasename=c:\temp\
dcrecordsource=select * from test (also tried full path name)

This same form used to work. What is the 'new' solution?

Thanks,
Troy