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delphi3 msaccess 2000

I am using delphi3 standard and am trying to use a msaccess database (office 2000)to write information into a msaccess table (I can do this with parodox no sweat) I get also sorts of errors like "could not find idodbc32.dll" I presume it has either something to do with the fact I am using office2000 or I am missing some part in Delphi. I have even tried to get into it via odbc and get a different error but no success (to try this method I went step by step from the book -being "Sams teach yourself Delphi 3 in 14 days" -should actually say 14 years though)
If anybody can help with this it would be much appreciated

inthe

hi,
the following works for me :

Odbc:

1: Open Control Panel, and then select ODBC DataSources (32bit) .
2: When the Data Source Administrator appears, Click Add.
3: find the one that says Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)
click it and click finish.
4: A dialog will popup called ODBC Microsoft Access Setup
5: in "data source name" edit box well call it "MyAccess"
6: description well say is "tesing msaccess connection".
7: click select and find your .mdb file click ok to select it.
8: click "advanced" and make sure login name and password are blank.
9: close advanced.
10: close microsoft access setup dialog
11: close the Data Source Administrator.

delphi:

1: start or restart delphi if its already running.
2: start a new project
3: drop a ttable,tdbgrid,tdatasource,tdatabase on form.

in object inspector:

4: datasource1 dataset : table1
5: dbgrid datasource : datasource1
6: database1 aliasname : MyAccess
7: database1 databasename : MyAccessDB //a free given name
8: database1 loginprompt : false
9: table1 databasename : MyAccessDB //is selectable
10: table1 tablename : select a table
11: database1 connected : true
12: table1 active : true

let us know how you get on.
i dont suppose you want components for it..
(diamond access are quite good i can give a link if your interested -shareware but cheapish)

monitorwa

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Thanks "inthe" unfortunately it didnt work -at the stage when I try to set the table1 table name I get a message "your application is not enabled for use with this driver Alias: MyAccessDB" - I found I get the same message when trying to connect as well?
I tried it on another PC here and got exactly the same result! -you dont think it has anything to do with the fact that both of these PC's are using office2000?

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xsoft

I am not sure if it is possible to connect to access 2000 with D3 when using the BDE as I don't use the BDE.
I would recommend to connect to access databases via DAO or ADO.
If you don't want to use third party components then you can easily import the typelibraries for either DAO or ADO and use their objects directly.
This is quite easy and you will find the documentation in the helpfiles from microsoft.
If you need to use databound controls in your app or want to use something like TTable, TQuery etc. then I would recommend the GM Components for ADO/DAO.
You'll find them at
http://www.gm-software.de

HTH,

Thomas

monitorwa

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monitorwa

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Thanks Barry, the diamond worked fine, I would still like to nut out the native access sometime though but for $50 or so for diamond that will certainly do for now.

TA

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