Re: Cross Table (Pivot Table) with Oracle Spread Table Control (MMTX32.OCX)

Thanks for this.

Now I see your point of view and I can't contradict. I'll consider this and will go to write my own pivot class (which I did start at first anyway till I found Oracles own OCX)

Thanks again for teaching me this lesson.

Andy ;-)

Billy Verreynne schrieb in Nachricht <3940bcb7.4234460_at_news.saix.net>...
>"Andreas Rothenwaender" <Andreas.Rothenwaender_at_safe.at> wrote:
>
>Nothing is easy. :-)
>
>Nothing wrong - my problem is about delegating control from your
>application to a 3rd party control. I dislike the idea of having my
>application software depending and relying on other 3rd party
>application ware (which is what most OCX's are).
> ...
 

>
>Creating pivot tables is _easy_. To create a Delphi base class called
>TPivotTable that supports basic pivoting functionality will probably
>take a few hours. You subclass the TQuery class to create a SQL class.
>Have one of the properties of that class be a string grid. And so on.
> ...
>OCX are not a substitude for a well designed OO class hierachy. Like
>what you have from Inprise/Borland with their Delphi/C++ Builder/Kylix
>products that supports the same OO class hierachy across multilple
>languages (C++ and Object Pascal) and across multiple platforms
>(Windows all versions and now Linux with Kylix).
>
>regards,
>Billy
>
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST