Contents 1. Introduction 2. How can we help you? 3. Products list 4. Support 5. Contact 1. Introduction Dear Delphi and C++Builder users: Our company does its best to help you create powerful Database applications with Delphi and C++ Builder fast and easy. Our products are specially designed to suite Rapid Application Development (RAD) technology. We believe that RAD significantly decreases the time and efforts you spend on application development. Our experience tells that even in Delphi environment at least 40% of program code has to be written manually to create an acceptable user interface and to make a successful application. This part of the code has nothing to do with the basic application logic. In other words, you always spend at least 40% of time writing the code that you do not need to write. And who would write this code for you? Yes, nobody, but by using the specialized sets of components you may decrease the portion of such code down to 10%. Look at our demo programs that mostly contain no manually written code. You can make your own applications with the same functionality without writing a single line of code. 2. How can we help you? Usually a database form that lists the data must have some view modificators which perform filter changing and data sorting. Users want to have a "quick find" option in data lists. You can fulfill these tasks with the visual components from Auto Components Library. Auto Form Expert will guide you through the process of creating your form. Sometimes you might want to extend the display capabilities of DBGrid. This is a rather simple task but it takes time. AutoGrid from Auto Components Library can display Graphic and Memo fields in several styles and control the visual attributes of each cell. Also you can easy change the sort order by clicking the row header. In a real database application you always have several lookup tables. The ordinary DBLookupCombo is quite usable but when you want to extend it capabilities you must do extra work. TDBReference components from Auto Components Library can control various aspects of lookup tables usage. The user can view a lookup table in a grid, search for a record incrementally, edit on the fly and type the KeyValue in the Edit Box. Sometimes you have to store a hierarchy of objects in your table. This can be done by using a self-referenced table (which has the ID and ParentID fields). Of course you would want to display the data in TreeView control. But you would find that it requires a LOT of code! Now you can use the DBTreeView component that controls your table. The component handles all you could expect of TreeView i.e. navigation, editing, drag & drop etc. You can even directly manipulate TreeView's nodes - all the changes will be reflected in the data table. The user always wants to see the familiar interface objects in the application. The closer it is to Windows Explorer, the more usable it is. So, why do not use the standard ListView component to display the data from a database? In many cases ListView is very useable and it looks good. DBListView is a data-aware ListView. And even more it can retrieve the item images from a database. The users like simple interfaces and hate complex ones. Several kinds of database applications allow the user to access many DataSets. Of course you can create an application with 50 forms, or let the user to select the appropriate dataset from a list or a menu. But there is a common approach which is used by such applications as Borland Database Explorer, MS SQL Enterprise Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager. All of these applications deal with a complex hierarchy of different objects grouped together. Instead of using dozens of forms they use just one TreeView to show all the hierarchy. The DBExplorer component allows you to organize all your DataSets in one simply manageable component. Often your DB application does not require complex input forms (for example, dictionaries). You might want to use one form to edit all of them by just changing the linked DataSource. You can do it easily with DBGrid. But what to do if the user wants to edit the data in the form style (that is the form containing Label, DBEdit, DBLookUp, DBMemo etc. controls) ? In this case the FREE DBPanelEdit component does all the work for you. It automatically presents the data from the linked DataSource in the form style using DisplayLabels and LookupFields in the same way as DBGrid uses them. In addition DBPanelEdit completely supports Memo and Graphic fields. You have to improve an existing database application to make it more usable. Why not to add the "Quick Search" capability to your grids? The FREE DBGridSearch component can do it. Since it does not require writing a single line of code, you would not bring new errors into the application. Just drop it on the form and link to DBGrid. Some kinds of database applications require quick data entering. In this case you might want to give the user the possibility to move to the next input field on pressing ENTER or on the previous field completion. You might also want to react on Ctrl-Insert and Ctrl-Del pressing by adding or deleting records. The QuickTyper components handle these features. Do you have problems or questions regarding "inside Delphi"? Look up RSD Tips & Tricks. This collection of Delphi Tips & Tricks answers questions on database and components programming. Some of the tips include free working components. If your problem can not be solved with RSD Tips & Tricks or if you have to rewrite some part of the code in your applications again and again, let us know - we will try help you and maybe we will create a component just for you. 3. Products list Auto Components Library 1.15 (Delphi 2.0, 3.0, C++ Builder) 25 Components Cost: * Client/Server Version: US$ 120.00 (Full SQL Support) * Desktop Version: US$ 49.00 (Tables support) Includes Sources, Demos, and FAQ. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/auto32/ The Demo is available at Client/Server Version: For Delphi 2.0 : http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/auto32_2.exe For Delphi 3.0 : http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/auto32_3.exe For C++ Builder 1.0: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/auto32_C.exe Desktop Version: For Delphi 2.0 : http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/auto32d2.exe For Delphi 3.0 : http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/auto32d3.exe For C++ Builder 1.0: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/auto32dC.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------ DBTreeView 2.0 (Delphi 2.0, 3.0, C++ Builder) 6 Components Cost: US$ 49.00 Includes Sources, Demos, and FAQ. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/dbtree/ The Demo is available at http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/dbtree.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------- DBListView 1.0 (Delphi 2.0, 3.0, C++ Builder) 5 Components Cost: US$ 49.00 Includes Sources, Demos, and FAQ. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/dblistv/ The Demo is available at http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/dblistv.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------- DBPanelEdit 1.0 (Delphi 2.0, 3.0, C++ Builder) Cost: FREE of charge Includes Sources, Demos. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/misc/ The product is available at http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/dbpanel.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------- DBExplorer 0.85 (Delphi 2.0, 3.0, C++ Builder) Cost: XXXX Includes Sources, Demos, and FAQ. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/dbexp/ The Demo is available at http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/dbexp.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------- DBGridSearch 2.0 (Delphi 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, C++ Builder) Cost: FREE of charge Includes Sources, Demos. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/misc/ The product is available at http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/grdsrch.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------- QuickTyper 2.0 (Delphi 2.0, Delphi 3.0, and C++ Builder) Cost: US$ 15 Includes Sources, Demos. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/misc/ The Demo is available at http://www.rsd.pp.ru/products/download/qtyper.exe ------------------------------------------------------------------- RSD Tips&Tricks Cost: FREE of charge Includes examples, free components with sources. Home page: http://www.rsd.pp.ru/service/consulting/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Support. All registered users of RSD products receive a full-time support via E-mail. We will answer your questions about the products usage and give you advice on building better applications with our products. We react to any bug report and prepare bug fixes as soon as possible. You receive any minor (and some major) updates for free. 5. Contact RSD software: Internet: http://www.rsd.pp.ru E-mail: rsd@tibc.tula.ru Fax: ++7 0872 77018