From: Richard D. Farley [rfarley@ballistic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 2:45 AM
To: Robert Dunn
Subject: Re: TDBTaeRichEdit 1.0.0.7 attached (Code Distribution)

Robert,

I have no problem with you including the code. Only thing is, how about
including the latest, attached version? It is slightly improved (I like to
think); and the note in my original email about the transparency thing was a
little misleading since I discovered the transparency thing works fine when
you drop the TDBTaeRichEdit on a TPanel.

The current code includes the 'Gutter' property, and requires TGutter1.cpp &
TGutter1.h. I won't explain it. Your users, I'm sure will figure it out. I
know it could be implemented far better and far more efficiently than this,
but it was/is only an experiment, and only a few are likely to have any use
for it anyway. In fact, the need for the TGutter1 stuff can be easily
eliminated simply by removing the TGutter references in DBTaeRichEdit.cpp &
DBTaeRichEdit.h. If you'd like to include this email as well in your
distribution, that's fine. Just remember to tell folks to let us both know
if they improve the code or make any improvements to TDBTaeRichEdit.

Later.

   / R

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dunn" <robertdunn@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Richard D. Farley" <rfarley@i-deaTech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: TDBTaeRichEdit 1.0.0.7 attached (Code Distribution)


> Hi, Richard.
>
> Back in March you shared your code to extend the TaeRichEdit Component to
> include TDBRichEdit capabilities.  I am about to post a new version of the
> component and I am including a "user-contributed" section in the
> distribution.  I would like to include your code.  The attached file is
what
> I plan to say about user-contributed code such as yours.
>
> If you are willing to share the code, please let me know.  Otherwise, I
will
> assume that you do not wish for me to include it and I will remove it from
> the distribution.  If you are willing to share but wish to place
additional
> restrictions on use of the code (copyright acknowledgements, license
> agreements, etc.), let me know.  While I prefer to keep things simple, I
> will honor your restrictions (and include them in the readme file) if I
can
> or remove the code from the distribution.  If I must remove the code from
> the distribution, I would be happy to include a link to a site where
others
> can get your code.
>
> Either way, thanks again for sharing the code with me.
>
> robert
>
>
> > Robert,
> >
> > How goes it?
> >
> > I recently downloaded ver 1.0.0.7 of TaeRichEdit.
> >
> > Not having had much opportunity to evaluate 1.0.0.4, I decided
> > the only way
> > I was likely to do so was to develop a data-aware version. So I did.
> >
> > I won't pretend it's perfect. It doesn't have every possible bell and
> > whistle; the FieldName property has no drop-downlist in the Object
> > Inspecter, etc. ... but it seems to work pretty well.
> >
> > I thought you or your fans might be interested, so I have attached it.
All
> > it does it derive from TTaeRichEdit and add the necessary link and
methods
> > so it, hopefully, will be easy enough to maintain should you
> > decide to make
> > it available to your TTaeRichEdit users. If so, you will need to
> > change the
> > "i deaTech" Register-component reference to the component palette, and
add
> > vcldb40 to your TTaeRichEdit package, but that should be about it.
> >
> > While I haven't tested it extensively, it seems to work fine with
1.0.0.7
> > and Builder4 with all patches installed. I have no idea otherwise.
> >
> > There is just one major problem with it as far as I know. When
Transparent
> > is set to true, the component does not update/redraw itself properly
when
> > changing records. This results in an absolute mess. I
> > experimented a little
> > while to see if I could fix the problem, but I guess I didn't have
enough
> > patience. After all, my intention was not a perfect implementation; just
> > enough to make it "evaluatable" in the application I'm currently
> > developing.
> >
> > Anyway, if you have any ideas on how to make it work even when
Transparent
> > is true, please let me know and/or send me the updated code!
> >
> > Hope you find this helpful, or time-saving, or something---but, if not,
no
> > biggie.
> >
> > Hope you are doing well.
> >
> >    / R
> >
>
