Variscan

When will Tokyo 10.2 be supported? I can not compile the 10.1 package because the pre-compiled UniSFCore.dcu is of course not compatible .-'(

Hello, Is it allowed to use my UniGUI license on a customers VM which will be used for (remote) development (only) by me? To be more precise: Nowadays it becomes more and more common for me to develop on a Virtual Machine - which ideally will be made available by the customer (so I use his special environment including his licensed version of Delphi, third party components etc.) If I advise a customer to use UniGUI, it is a bit complicated to show demos or make developments on base of a limited trial edition until he decides to buy his own license. It would be fine if I could develop with my license - and if the customer is satisfied and may take it finally in production, I would force him to buy his own UniGUI license at this point as required. (Or: Remove my license and then install the trial edition)

A few weeks ago I got myself a free EC2 instance. Although it is sized with just 640 MB of RAM and low CPU-Performance, I'm totally thrilled of all the possibilities (which are well documented by Amazon if you're familiar with Server & TCP/IP stuff). I can choose free between several Windows / Linux distributions and can manage the complete individual configuration of the (of course virtual) systems. It is as if I have an expensive server hosting contract,but can just experiment free of charge and upgrade the servers set up at any time if required. The ability to duplicate and dynamic allocation of IP addresses or (paid) load balancers leaves no wishes open to designing a (later needed) complete infrastructure! BTW, did someone notice that the free of charge 720 hrs/month are a complete 24/7 month? ;-))))

Those errors are a pain in the neck - same like adding forms/datamodules automatically to the .dpr file even if you explictly checked "no" in projects options. Depending on the data-access components it is always a good advice to show a control-message if the superior connection is already opened on design-time mode (which can easily happen when working on different subsidiary Tables/Queries etc.) To avoid this, I always do a simple check from start-up in my main TDataModule (which holds the Connection-Component) in the OnCreate event: if <Connection>.Connected then ShowMessage("Connection open on Design-Time!"); Of course you can/might have to do the same with the "Active" setting of all the Tables and Queries - but if your DB-Interface uses a T<however>Connection Component, its initial "connected" setting counts!

Take a look at the Servermodule.dfm - perhaps you've chosen through the wizard or set the "Standalone" property manually to true, so only the integrated webserver reacts through the browser (a VCL GUI will then not be displayed, like properties name reveals :-)

The magic word is " ...that customer is not permitted to use the Software independently of Your Application" So, of course you need a ExtJS License to build a product and sell it - but you don't have to force your customers to buy a license, too! (Unless they want to develop something with your delivered ExtJS distribution themselves...but that should not be your problem :-)

Farshad calls an act of faith, asking for money for a product still in production without a defined route, and even without knowing the final price .... I think it's very logical what has happened, many people are waiting to see how the product evolves. He did not ask for money for UniGUI - but even if it were the case, it would be his good right after 2 years! At the moment, he simply asked for our vote, whether and how much we would be willing to donate so he can bring the vital but for him understandably very, very expensive ExtJS OEM license agreement signed and sealed! 1. Without this license agreement, we all can no longer go on as before. That's not a new fact! 2. Without this license agreement, UniGUI could not be brought as easy and successful on the market (no "free trial download", no hassle-free deployment for users...). 3. But this should be in everyone's interest who invests a lot of development effort and counts on an evolving UniGUI for the future! Farshads miscalculation was unfortunately to rely on his community and their willingness to help decisively now. In this situations we love to say in Germany "it's time to do butter to the fish" :-) Perhaps it is due to a lack of sales talent at the moment (which we as creative developers unfortunately often missing). But I would also not have expected that he must sell us the topic right now! Variscan, if you want to sell a product, you have to always defend , in closed or open forum, and more for 1200 many potential customers. Wrong. You should never ever have to defend your product but convince customers to use and love it - so they're very willing to pay for! Take a look at successful Apple - and the counterpart Embarcadero...

.) Bring the Website in some better shape .) ...in this course you could give the (perhaps NonVCL) child a new name ;-) .) Add Links to existing documentations (Wiki, Quickstart-Guides...) to avoid FAQ's by beginners .) Please just decide and don't discuss and poll with us too much - even a bad descision is something the mass has to live with :-) .) Realize that you are unrivaled! Use this advantage in the good and don't get disappointed by some people who might not capture/understand everything right now...

We are in a closed pre-release forum, at least currently you don't have to justify your product ;-)

Take a look at the very first line of every UniGUI projects code (created by UniGUI Application Wizard), e.g. fishfacts_xe2.dpr: {$define UNIGUI_VCL} // Comment out this line to turn the project into ISAPI module {$ifndef UNIGUI_VCL} library {$else} program {$endif} FishFacts_XE2; Then, Delphi's buggy IDE still might show the exe extension in Project Manager - however it compiles it as DLL! To be able to launch the .DLL via Apache, you need to configure mod_isapi, see http://www.unigui.com/doc/online_help/index.html?apache_2_2.htm and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_isapi.html Take also a look at the helpful link Gerhard Kimmeringer posted under http://forums.unigui.com/index.php?/topic/3107-helpfiles-wiki-docs/

The comparison is quite unfair. I suggest you give UniGUI a few major versions time to provide all the desirable features. 0.93 is known to be still a beta! DevExpress & Co. had 18 years to refine the "Click-Together-Components" for us (but yes, I love it too when I do not have to worry about any junk, especially in GUI design ...) Incidentally, I do not really like overloaded "Monster Suites" as DevExpress - 1 million features and options whose combinations no one understands, especially not beginners who now often follow the senior developers in companies to maintain their undocumented stuff...

Farshad, please don't forget to ask Sencha for deeper details about possible limitations of OEM license and keep us informed, see http://forums.unigui.com/index.php?/topic/3121-donation/page-2&do=findComment&comment=14433 But either way - if I decide to buy a license directly from Sencha within next weeks, I would still donate another $ 300 to you to support the eminently important opportunity for a UniGUI-Bundle!

BTW, could the search-logic be optimized? After every search and reading a topic, the next search defaults just to "This Topic" - a pain in the neck for researchers like me ;-)

ExtJS is the underlying framework which UniGU utilizes. You don't have to start up from scratch with the damn complex Javascript library - that's UniGUI's Job! I suggest you try starting with UniGUI's integrated Webserver - UniGUI Apps geniously are able to serve themselves, so you don't need an external webserver during development process! Take a look at UniGUI's basic Unit Servermodule.pas - in Delphi's Object-Inspector (or ServerModule.OnCreate) you can set the port (default is 8077, so http://127.0.0.1:8077 via Webserver gives you access) Always try directly with http://127.0.0.1 as some browser-versions do not correctly translate http://localhost. A wrong configured \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file might be another reason... Make sure your firewall is not blocking the given port at least for private access on your own computer. If another port like 8078 also doesn't work, temporarily disable your Firewall/Antivirus Software and check again...

It works with Google's Language Recognition Tab and means: "You gotta tell us how much money your system. According to your pricing, prepayment is required." ...the beautiful original chinese characters were promising a lot more. Well, that's their trick ;-)