* Bugfix: Forgot to switch from ANSI to Unicode strings here and there. Sort of annoying that you cannot cause automatic Wide->Ansi conversion to just assert with an exception with an option. Could perhaps modify the VCL to do it.
* Add "assertions" (well, small logic bombs that will explode in your face, rather) in places that I couldn't be bothered to fix or couldn't figure out.
* Zeos doesn't do anything terribly intelligent with it's row buffer, it simply stuffs columns into it from one end until it overflows. Instead of actually fixing this by, I dunno, mapping the smallest columns into the buffer first and stopping when it's full, just decreased the threshold at which ZMySQL declares something to be a stream rather than a string.
* Also update other drivers so they still compile, now using the WideString interfaces. Haven't Unicode-enabled any of them, just inserted an explicit cast from 16-bit to 8-bit strings in their respective Execute() methods.
- Accounts and existing privileges are presented in a pulldown which makes it as easy to use as a toy
- Adding privileges calls the new SelectDBO dialog which is basically a tree like childwins dbtree
- Updating accounts canonicalizes various odd/legacy mechanisms in the MySQL user system
- Fullfills feature request #1547437 (btw)
- Wants to be tested heavily on different servers
A result of a team work. 1000 thanks to rosenfield for the admin friendly logic implementation, tons of fixes and usability ideas.
- Rename components with reasonable names
- Use caching mechanism from Childwin.FetchDBTableList to fill tables listbox
- Make form resizable, store and restore customized dimensions
- Keep form instance alive and recycle that instance as long as Mainform lives
- Fix confusion with action item (wasn't really used in both menuitems)
- Add documentation
- Give them their own icon in dbtree and ListTables
- Disable pure table actions (like "Alter table", "Optimize" etc.) in context menus when a view is selected
- Add new column in ListTables: "Type" which is filled either with "Base table" or "View"
- Introduce new property "NodeType" in TVTreeData record, used currently to store NODETYPE_VIEW or NODETYPE_TABLE. This new property is meant to be used for various purposes in other VirtualTrees in the future.
- Introduce Childwin.SelectedTableType, corresponding to Childwin.SelectedTable
- Make DropTable action fit for also dropping views (and surely a list with a mixture of views and tables)
- Don't fetch rowcount from views in DisplayRowCountStats to fix bug #1844952
License:
Redistributable in unmodified form. Statement from the author on the above website: "Do with them what you want. Improve them, republish them, as long as my legacy can live on"
- Consequently use Mainform.GetRegValue() to read these values, an overloaded method with either Boolean, String or Integer result. These methods keep a global TRegistry object (regMain) open while the application runs, rather than creating a new one for each caller.
- Remove Mainform.SaveRegValue() which was used in one or two callers. Rather use a TRegistry object and do that by hand. There's no significant advantage in using a SaveRegValue method currently.
- Use variables like "have_innodb" for detection of supported engines.
- Move redundant code from two places to Childwin.TableEnginesCombo()
- Remove some legacy code around this logic
- Don't free the instance of CreateTableForm after closing it. Saves some SQL queries from being fired each time the form gets created.
* TNTGrid is not capable of displaying a sort arrow in column titles. So, signalize sort direction of columns in grids and listviews by lightgrey (= ascending) and mediumgrey (= descending)
* Remove special color for NULL cells in grids because it can conflict with the new sorting colors. Instead, place a grey (NULL) text in these cells. Less gaudy colors now.
* Also remove grey background in primary key columns for the benefit of sorting colors. PK cells have bold font anyway, should be noticable enough.
