🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

First off, I applogize if this is not the right place to post questions
about Turbo C++ Explorer, I can't seem to find a dedicated group for
TC++ here.

I am working on a non-profit project for a school, so I have totally 0
budget for the project, thus I have chosen to use TC++ EXP since it is free.

Now my problem is I can't seem to make dbExpress to connect to the MySQL
server I'm using for the project. I searched the net for information,
and found out that dbExpress doesn't work with MySQL 4.1.7 or higher,
fine, I downgrade my MySQL server to 4.0.20, which rumour has it that it
is working with dbExpress. However, I found out that although I can
connect to the MySQL database, I couldn't acess any of the tables or
whatever. When I dropped a TSQLDataSet on the form and try to build an
SQL query, there is no tables shown on the query builder. If I tried to
type in the query manually like "SELECT * FROM user_table", it gives me
an error "dbExpress Error: [0x0003] Invalid Field Type" upon activating
the DataSet. Same thing happend when I tried with a TSQLQuery.

I have searched the net and found out many people are unable to use
dbExpress regardless of what version of MySQL they use. Likewise, none
of them get any answer or solution from Borland. So, is this dbExpress
included in TC++ EXP just a joke from Borland (a bad one, the joke, I
must say), or is there really any way to make it work?

Please don't suggest to me to use any third party component that
requires payment, as I said, I'm working on this project as a charity
for a school and I, as an individual, can't affort to pay for the
components.

Any feedback (especially an official one - I'm really interested to know
what Borland is going to say regarding this non working dbExpress and
how are they going to solve the problem, something that I really wish to
 hear, based on the void-ness I've found through my serch on the net -
this may help me in deciding if I want to upgrade to Pro for TC++ or
switch to other IDE from a more responsible and reliable company, when I
have a profitable job) would be welcomed, and thanks in advance.

regards,
Annoyed-nimous