Does anyone know if the TMS Flexcel trial allows you to compile an EXE and have it run on a machine without Delphi? We have a client that has issues with running the Excel automation object (they've screwed around with his virtual machine -- don't ask). Our current code uses the automation object to read XLSX files. However some machines have two versions of EXCEL loaded (again , don't ask), and depending on which one is loaded last, it can't read XLSX files (just XLS). Anyhow, I wanted to prove that the Flexcel components would work on his machine before we buy a site license
Phillip Woon FlexCel is all native delphi code and doesn't depend either in having Excel installed (As OLE does), or ODBC drivers for Excel installed (as FireDac does). So I am quite confident that it will run wherever a Delphi app runs, because it is "just" code that manipulates arrays of bytes (in the case of xls) or xml (in the case of xlsx).
ReplyDeleteBut the trial is designed to work from Delphi, so if you need to test the exe in a different machine you will see cells that instead of the correct value have a string saying "this is a trial" or similar.
So if you want to evaluate FlexCel, what I propose you can do is:
1)Create a test with the trial and test it in a machine with Delphi. Make sure you can do whatever you want to do.
2)If you can get the trial to work in the machine with Delphi and are satisfied with the results, just buy a license and test it in the other machine with a registered copy.
I am 99.9% that it will also work in the other machines, with or without Excel, with multiple copies of Excel, without Excel ODBC drivers or with the wrong version (as far as I know you can't install both 32 bit and 64 bit odbc drivers for Excel in the same machine).
But if for any reason it doesn't actually work, we will likely fix it. And if we can't fix it we can give you a full refund for the license so you don't have any risk of buying something you can't use. And the reason I can offer a full money back guarantee, not questions asked, is that I know it will work :) We have been developing FlexCel for over 15 years, constantly adding new stuff (take a look at tmssoftware.biz - What's new in FlexCel Studio for VCL and FireMonkey | FlexCel Studio for VCL and FireMonkey documentation ), and I am really confident it works wherever Delphi works. And this includes iOS and Android too.
Flexcel is brilliant. It gives you the ability to generate Excel based reports that customers - who are used to a CSV download if they're lucky - are amazed by.
ReplyDeleteAdrian Gallero I think we’ll purchase it
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