TDBRepeatButton =============== Version 1.0 (9 July 1997) Freeware for Delphi 1.0 and 2.0 Copyright (c) 1997 Greg Lief ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Description 2. Installation 3. New Properties 4. Copyright Notice 5. Disclaimer 6. Technical Support 7. Revision History 8. Comments 9. Purchasing Source Code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Description ============== TDBRepeatButton is a speedbutton for quickly traversing any dataset. You may set the number of records to move, along with the speed of the movement. 2. Installation =============== A. Choose the Component | Install menu option (or if you are using Delphi 1.0, the Options | Install Components menu option). B. Click upon the Add Button, and select either DBREPE16.DCU (Delphi 1) or DBREPEAT.DCU (Delphi 2). C. Press OK twice. D. After your component library is recompiled, you will find a new tab entitled "Greg Lief", with the TDBRepeatButton icon upon it. 3. New Properties ================= Except as noted, all properties are available at design-time. DataSource -- This is the datasource component in which the record pointer will be moved. This must be assigned or clicking upon the button will have no visible effect. Direction -- This dictates how to move through the dataset, either forward (bdForward) or backward (bdRewind). The default value is bdForward. Changing this will also change the Glyph property accordingly. Increment -- This dictates how many records to move at a time. The default value is 1, but you may wish to increase this dependent upon the size of your dataset. Interval -- This dictates how often to move the record pointer. The default value is 50 milliseconds. 4. Copyright Notice =================== This component is fully functional. My copyright notice will appear when you drop it upon a form at design-time, but that will not occur at run-time. You can remove the copyright notice by purchasing the source code (see item #9 below). 5. Disclaimer ============= It is unfortunate that we live in a litigous society in which the lawyers are generally the only winners. However, that makes the following verbiage necessary: "THE CODE FOR THIS COMPONENT IS PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS BY ITS AUTHOR, GREG LIEF. THE AUTHOR HAS TESTED THE COMPONENT AND FEELS THAT IT WORKS AS BILLED, BUT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTEES OF ANY KIND. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU ARE USING THIS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGE RESULTING FROM THE USE OF EITHER THIS COMPONENT OR ANY DERIVATIVES THEREOF." 6. Technical Support ==================== The reason I am making this component available as freeware because I feel that it will be of use to other Delphi developers. However, always remember the old maxim "you get what you pay for". In other words, do not get carried away by expecting technical support, because you will be sadly disappointed. 7. Revision History =================== July 9, 1997 -- initial public release 8. Comments =========== If you find this component useful, I would appreciate hearing from you via e-mail (greglief@teleport.com). I would also greatly appreciate your taking the time to evaluate the Delphi Object Lessons technical journal, for which I serve as Executive Editor. More information and a sample issue are available at URL http://www.teleport.com/~ol/djournal.shtml. The most updated version of this component can always be found at my personal web site (http://www.teleport.com/~greglief). 9. Purchasing Source Code ========================= The TDBRepeatButton source code is available for $5 US. See the ORDER.TXT (included in this package) for more details.