The Metropolitan Court of Albuquerque needed to update its cashiering application for real-time posting and for standalone operation when the network or the server is not available. The Delphi visual form inheritance greatly reduced the amount of time required to develop and subsequently modify the graphic user interface.
Cashiers are more productive because of time-saving features such as incremental search.
The Metropolitan Court in Albuquerque handles criminal, civil, and traffic cases for all of Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Bernalillo County and Albuquerque together have a population of nearly half a million, representing nearly a third of the people in the whole state. The Metropolitan Court presently maintains a database of 823,000 current and closed defendant records. Many people would be surprised at the amount of money that flows through the court's violations division every day. If a person gets a traffic ticket and comes in to pay a fine, a cash transaction is generated.