Talk:Lazarus Tdbf Tutorial

Reenen: Hi there... My previous wiki experience was a more 'loose' forum like experience, so please forgive if I break any rules.

I just downloaded Lazarus yesterday (18 April 2005), and I am trying to teach myself a bit more of it.

So here I am trying to do this tutorial. At first I didn't have the tdbf component on my component bar. But I managed to find it on my installation and get it compiled and installed. (You might want to add how to do this into the tutorial, but as it is a tdbf tut, and not lazarus, it's your call)

Then I started to create my database... (I also downloaded the demo from tdbf's website, but this didn't work, but I assume it's a Delphi demo.

I read in the tutorial that we cannot create a table in a database desktop like thing, so we have to code.

This is where I ran into trouble.

procedure TMainForm.btnCreateDatabaseClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
   dbCardData.TableLevel := 7;
   dbCardData.TableName := 'Cards';
   with dbCardData.FieldDefs do  begin
       Add('CardName',ftString,256,True);
       Add('Edition',ftString,128,True);
       Add('CC',ftString,32,True);

My error was

mainUnit.pas(56,24) Error: Identifier not found "ftString"

Can anyone help me?

The Lazarus database forum is probably a better place to ask these questions. Of course fixes to this tutorial are welcome. Vincent 03:10, 20 Apr 2005 (PDT)