Re: To Helen or any Firebird pros

2007-01-25 Thread Helen Borrie
At 02:57 AM 25/01/2007, you wrote: It took more than a lot of searching, but finally after combining and extrapolating the code I found on 4 different sites, I finally came up with what I believe is a proper start to using Firebird in an embedded application. Here it is in Pascal NET

Re: To Helen or any Firebird pros

2007-01-25 Thread Bob Swart
Hi Robert, At least this seems to compile! Unfortunately however, I am now getting an error message when I attempt to run it thru the debugger saying that it cannot find the fbembed.dll, which is located not only where it was originally installed, but also in the application's exe

Re: ASP.NET / ADO.NET query parameters by name

2007-01-25 Thread Bob Swart
Hi Cosmin, I'm learning ASP.NET and in the process I need to learn ADO.NET; The syntax for defining and using a SQL query that makes use of parameters seems really difficult to me, so I hope I'm actually missing something. I'm using a special routine that I wrote to add parameters to a

Re: To Helen or any Firebird pros

2007-01-25 Thread Cosmin Prund
Hello Robert, here's what I found about Firebird the last two days: As you might have noticed I've started working on a ASP.NET application using Delphi and I obviously wanted to use my favorite database, Firebird. First of all there's not much info on Firebird + ADO.NET provider + Delphi.NET,

Re: ASP.NET / ADO.NET query parameters by name

2007-01-25 Thread John Wilson
Hello everyone. I'm learning ASP.NET and in the process I need to learn ADO.NET; The syntax for defining and using a SQL query that makes use of parameters seems really difficult to me, so I hope I'm actually missing something. This is what I'm doing now: procedure Test; var

Re: Delay setting Text Property

2007-01-25 Thread Arjang Assadi
1)detach the on changeEven 2)Change Text 3)re attach the on change event On 1/25/07, Ross Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to change the Text property of a ComboBox inside the OnChange event. Setting it directly doesn't work presumeably because the OnChange event occurs before the

Re[2]: Scope and Message Passing

2007-01-25 Thread Wilfried Mestdagh
Hello Alan, as long as I only need to access TForm properties. The problem--obvious to all of you--is that any GUI form we use inherits from TForm and has additional properties, (component) fields, etc. None of these would be available when I pass a reference to TForm. You can do this with

Re: Scope and Message Passing

2007-01-25 Thread Henry Bartlett
Alan Colburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : try with AIniFile do begin WriteInteger('Config', 'Width', Form1.width); //something like a WriteString method to save Memo1's Text, or a series of WriteStrings to save each of Memo1's WriteString ('Memo', .'Memo Text',

Re: Delay setting Text Property

2007-01-25 Thread Ross Levis
I don't see how that will help. Changing the text property programatically doesn't fire the OnChange event. It requires a manual selection in the combobox. Thanks anyway, Ross. - Original Message - From: Arjang Assadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List

Re: We should all be thankful!

2007-01-25 Thread Rory Daulton
Eddie, Now, if you mention Delphi, it's like the episode of the Twighlight Zone where Willaim Shatner finds he's the last man on earth... I think you mean Burgess Meredith, in the episode Time Enough at Last. William Shatner did two other episodes. Rory Daulton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: We should all be thankful!

2007-01-25 Thread Eddie Shipman
Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn't sure which it was, I haven't seen it in probably 30 yrs. E. --- Rory Daulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eddie, Now, if you mention Delphi, it's like the episode of the Twighlight Zone where Willaim Shatner finds he's the last man on earth... I

RE: We should all be thankful!

2007-01-25 Thread Woods, Steven
Steady on everyone, your collectively sending me on a bit of a guilt trip here :-) I've lurked on the Delphi lists here for years, and read every mail that's been posted. Although over the entire period I think I've replied to about 1 or 2. Some of the posts over that time have come in very

RE: We should all be thankful!

2007-01-25 Thread Irwin Scollar
As perhaps the only native born New Yorker lurking on this list, I might say that when I left that dreadful place on a 9 month grant to study in Europe in 1954 at age 26, I breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't choose to be born there, but it wasn't my parent's fault either since they were

RE: We should all be thankful!

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Meek
Thank you Sir...and you'll be very happy to know that next week I'm going to write three or four pages on my last trip to Trafalmadore where I had the honor of meeting Montana Wildhack...in the rough...and helping to prevent the redundant and expensive end of the Universe! Of course for

RE: We should all be thankful!

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Meek
Let me just say that I consider reading and understanding the API we've all grown to know and love or hate depending upon your temperament, is a breeze compared to understanding the FCL! There must be literally thousands of classes hidden in there! And for me at least learning the syntax