SSI TOPAZ 8.0 Upgrade Page
If you are not planning to use Delphi 6, Delphi 7, C++Builder 6 or Kylix you do not need to upgrade from TOPAZ 7.5 to TOPAZ 8.0.
TOPAZ 8.0 supports Delphi 3,4,5,6,7, Kylix, and C++Builder 3,4,5 and 6 (added support for Delphi 6,7, C++Builder 6 and Kylix)
TOPAZ 8.0 has been reduced to database access components (TTzDbf, TTzVFile,
and data aware controls). These core database access components work both
under Delphi and Kylix.
PLEASE NOTE: all non-database related components have been moved
out of TOPAZ version 8.0. So this somewhat limits TOPAZ 8.0 if you
compare it to the earlier version. Therefore unless you are planning
to use Delphi 6, Delphi 7, C++Builder 6 or Kylix you do not need
to upgrade from TOPAZ 7.5 to TOPAZ 8.0.
These "non-database" components mentioned above became a part of the new component suite
for Delphi called "SSI Solution Pack."
There is a reason for doing this. Some of the components in older versions
of TOPAZ heavily relied on Windows for graphics display and printing.
Therefore these components cannot be part of a cross platform development library
without significant code changes.
SSI Solution Pack and TOPAZ are separate products and totally independent
from each other: SSI Solution Pack does not need TOPAZ and does not rely
on TOPAZ.