StudioPM wrote:...I've tried to get in touch with the largest European dealers (Microdata Sistemi s.r.l. in Italy, DataCAD Software & Services GmbH in Germany, DataCAD Software S.L. in Spain, ABACAD Informatique in France): no one of them has shown the slightest interest in discussing the potential of Delphi-DCAL.
I am sure that this is happening because there is not yet available an updated documentation with DCAL for Delphi.
As long as it is released we will have tools to entice applications developers, all around the CAD world, for developing utilities for DataCAD 11-12.
The general environment behind plain DCAL became older with the time, and wouldn't open perspectives for new developers.
You can remind Devinder's message:
devinder wrote:...The legacy DCAL was very limited. It would be at DataCAD first who add new functions for DCAL programmers so they can use them. The new functions would not work unless a new update is issued to the public and downloaded by users. Programmers could not create customized dialog boxes, or use 3rd party toolkits/modules to interpret the data. Now using Windows API or ActiveX controls you build macros that can read/write Word,Excel,DWG files or get the data from the Web or create any complex dialog box.The new DCAL needed to overcome these problems.
Legacy DCAL is single precision and thus causes rounding errors in decimal values when data moves between the macro and drawing file.
Today we can foresee several opportunities in the peripherical DataCAD world, with topography/surveying, estimating, interior architecture, furniture manufacturing and assemblying ...
How many more areas can you imagine in a snap think ?
Thank you Pietro, for bringing discussion for this much important point.
Miguel