The main reason I personally prefer Wise to InstallShield is because it's interface simply makes more sense to me as a programmer-geek-type. Wise refers to Wise Installer for Windows, an installation package similar to InstallShield, though a bit different. Lance RE: Paradox 7 Runtime to Paradox 10 Runtime? Should I? LWB (TechnicalUser) The Paradox 10 Runtime (SP2) download is ~40MB, so I'd definitely butter up your friend with the highspeed connection. However, I do know there's an InstallShield FAQ at that looks fairly complete. Like I said, there's nothing that really jumps out at you until you look at the whole picture.Īs far as using the InstallShield that was provided with Paradox 7, I haven't personally tried that (I prefer Wise myself).
Other new enchancements include tooltip properties, string lists (which can drastically reduce the code needed to build menus and keyboard shortcuts), direct writeToFile method added for reports, ability to detect corrupt tables from within ObjectPAL, enhanced experts, and so on. You still have to deal with things like the stylesheet issue, but a lot of the "squirrlies" seems to have gone away. During Paradox 10 development, I know that a lot of attention was paid to the long outstanding report problems that first surfaced with the 32-bit port.
I can't say whether these are true or not, however, I can tell you that many of the memory leaks found in older versions seem to have gone away. There have been rumors that Corel ported Paradox to VC (from BCC) in version 9. Indeed, is implemented with Corel's Web Server running against Paradox tables (or so I've heard). While the v8 stuff was slightly touchy, the more recent versions are far better.
In Paradox 8, Corel added some internet functionality that's been slowly improving in the interim. This means you'll pay about $250 for something that would have run about $500-$600 in older versions.
Since Paradox is no longer sold separately, you'd only need to upgrade to the Professional Edition of WPO 2002, whicyh includes a license for Runtime. While Corel hasn't made what one might call major changes to each new version of Paradox, there have been some pretty significant changes since version 7, enough that it might make sense to upgrade. Lynn RE: Paradox 7 Runtime to Paradox 10 Runtime? Should I? footpad (Programmer) 3 Mar 03 21:51 If I take the leap to Paradox 10, how big is the download for Paradox 10 Runtime? Is my dial-up ISP up to the task, or do I need to recruite a friend with a fast connection? It took me so long to get InstallShield to work right I'm reluctant to change
Does it work? I've never attempted to use it.
Is it possible to use the InstallShield that came with Paradox 7? If not, how do you produce an application distribution disk? I believe a different installation package (something besides Install Shield) came with Paradox 8 Runtime. I've heard that there is no install package included with Paradox 10 Runtime. So my question is should I? Or am I better off sticking with Paradox 7 (or trying to find a version of Paradox 9). I'm debating upgrading to Paradox 10 and moving the distributed version into Paradox 10 Runtime. I never made the conversion to Paradox 8 because of printing problems with Paradox 8. I never bought Paradox 9 (the developer edition was pretty expensive) or 10. I own (but haven't used) Paradox 8 Runtime (as well as Paradox 8). I have an application that runs in Paradox 7 Runtime.