Features

Titan works with the data-aware controls found in Delphi and C++ Builder

Titan provides the developer with the ability to use any of the data-aware components and tools available today. Rather than simply provide a limited set of components like some ActiveX solutions offer, Titan put no limits on the developer. Use charting packages, report writers, or any other data-aware component with Titan.

We directly support Infopower, Orpheus, and Tee Chart components, as well as the thousands of others available as 3rd party or freeware products. Ask your ActiveX vendor if they can do the same.

Titan allows you to see your data live at design-time, just like the Borland Database Engine (BDE) does

Titan is a drop-in replacement for the BDE, and as such it provides all the amazing capabilities the BDE does. These features include record filtering, cached updates, and record search and locate services.

Titan shows data live at design-time, allowing the developer to see what their application will look like before compiling a single line of code.

Titan makes Native engine calls to the Btrieve and Scalable SQL API's for the world's fastest performance

Since Titan bypasses the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and the ODBC driver, Titan's performance blows away any other approach. There is nothing faster than using the native API's in Pervasive.SQL, and Titan knows it. Titan is the only RAD toolset in existence today which provides native support for the Scalable SQL API found with Pervasive.SQL. Another benefit of Titan is that you can eliminate distributing the BDE with your applications. This makes life simpler, and reduces support.

No Titan License Fees

There are no license fees with Titan. All we ask is that you have one Titan license for each developer you have, we don't care how many products you build with it. This no-nonsense approach keeps your investment low, and lets you distribute your applications without worrying about license fees to us.

Source Code Version Available

We're so confident in Titan that we sell a source code version. See for yourself how Titan works it's magic. We have no ugly code to hide! Titan is built on a solid object oriented architecture which is easy to understand. Some Titan developers get the source to add their own enhancements, others buy it for safe-keeping. In either case, it's a great deal, as there is over 5 man years of development in the code.

Delphi Support

Titan fully supports all versions of Delphi from 1.0 through 4.0. Since Titan was the world's first BDE replacement, it provides the most extensive support of BDE functionality across all Delphi and C++ Builder versions.

For Borland tools before these releases, Titan replaces the existing data access components with identical ones that talk to Titan.

For the Delphi 3.0, 4.0 and C++ Builder tools, Titan is implemented by delivering a complete set of database components just like the Borland ones. The Titan components can be used with the Delphi data-aware components, just like before.

Titan for Delphi 3.0, 4.0, and C++ Builder 3.0, 4.0 introduces the following components:

• TtbTable
• TtbQuery
• TtbSession
• TtbDatabase
• TtbRecDump

Our latest releases allow you to run multiple Titan products at the same time. Now you can use Titan Access, Titan Btrieve, and Titan SQLAnywhere in the same Delphi 3.0, 4.0, or C++ Builder 3.0, and 4.0 application.

C++ Builder Support

C++Builder provides a development environment almost exactly the same as Delphi, but it uses the C++ language.

The really great news about C++ Builder is that it uses the Visual Component Library (VCL) found in Delphi. With C++ Builder you can compile C++ and/or Pascal code in the same application. Better than that, Titan integrates into the C++ Builder environment just like in Delphi!

Now developers using both C++ and Delphi can benefit from Titan. Titan allows the C++ Builder developer to use the same tried and true code that has been used in Delphi for over three years.

Titan was written completely in Delphi Object Pascal code, and it compiles right into your application's EXE file. Forget about BDE configuration files and DLL's, Titan is lean and mean. Titan for C++ Builder includes sample data, and a powerful database browser project, complete with source code in C++.

Installing Titan into C++ Builder is simple. Once Titan is installed you then have access to your Btrieve database at run-time and design time just like with the BDE. If you want to run the BDE at the same time as Titan, you can! Try that with other BDE replacements.

Specifications

Requires Pervasive.SQL, or the Btrieve or Scalable SQL products
Titan is not a database engine, it is really an interface. In order to use Titan, you'll need to have the Pervasive.SQL product, or an earlier release of Btrieve or Scalable SQL. For 32-bit development tools, you'll need a Pervasive product with a 32-bit interface.

Requires Btrieve DDF files at design time
Btrieve Data Dictionary Files (DDF) are required at design-time so that Titan can understand your record layouts. DDF's are required at run-time when using the Query components, or when not using the Titan Compiled DDF feature. The new Pervasive.SQL release includes a DDF maintenance utility called 'DDF Ease', so you don't need to buy anything extra to get to work with Titan right away.

Allows simultaneous use of the BDE
Titan never limits your options, and you can use the BDE in your applications if you need to. You still get high-performance from Titan, and the BDE works great too.

Supports all Btrieve and Smithware Extended data types
Whether using the standard Btrieve data types, or the extended ones provided by Smithware's DDF Builder, you are covered with Titan.

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Titan works with both 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Delphi