What version of Delphi?
Buffer : array[0..254] of ANSIChar;
-----Original Message-----
From: Delphi [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MetaSemantics
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:01 PM
To: 'Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi Programming excluding
Database-related topics'
Subject: RE: Running Delphi on 64-bit machines
I tried this
:
Buffer : array[0..254] of Char;
BufSize : Integer;
...
GetEnvironmentVariable ('userprofile', Buffer, BufSize);
BaseDir := IncludeTrailingPathDelimiter(string(buffer)) + 'documents';
But when I stepped through, I could see Buffer had all zeroes in it, and so
BaseDir came up with the string '\documents' which threw an exception.
Something is still not working.
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Delphi [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sid Gudes
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:38 AM
To: 'Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi Programming excluding
Database-related topics'
Subject: RE: Running Delphi on 64-bit machines
IIRC a tDirectoryListBox does not know how to resolve %userprofile%. So you
need to get the value of userprofile and then add '\documents' after it.
Something like:
GetEnvironmentVariable ('userprofile', buffer, size);
BaseDir := IncludeTrailingPathDelimiter(string(buffer)) + 'documents';
Or instead of GetEnvironmentVariable, you can use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation.
At 04:28 PM 7/22/2014, Rich Cooper wrote:
>I am trying to set an initial directory to the
>code '%userprofile%\documents' Which
>is supposed to go to the current user's "Documents" folder (Win 7), but
>it blows up, with the exception "can't find file" as I step through the
>sequence. How do I set the Directory property of a TDirectoryListBox
>(such as dlSystemCEfP below) and still use the
>control? BaseDir :=
>'%userprofile%\documents';
>dlSystemCEfP.Directory := BaseDir; The second statement always blows
>the TDirectoryListBox with "Can't find file" exception. Suggestions,
>corrections appreciated, -Rich Sincerely, Rich Cooper
>EnglishLogicKernel.com Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com 9 4 9 \ 5 2 5
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>2 -----Original Message----- From: Delphi
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Garth S. Wilcox
>Sent: Monday, June 09,
>2014 4:11 PM To: Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi
>Programming excluding Database-related topics Subject: Re: Running
>Delphi on 64-bit machines Now this is not about installing on a 64-bit
>machine. I am using VirtualBox (an Oracle free virtual machine
>manager). I installed Win 7 32-bit and had no issues installing Delphi
>5. I did run the install.exe (or was it Setup.exe) as administrator I
>am in the process of setting up a virtual machine for all the versions
>of Delphi I own complete with the appropriate libraries. When I need
>to work with a project that requires a certain version, I'll clone the
>virtual machine and install the source. Garth On
>6/8/2014 10:37 PM, Darin McGee wrote: > Yes, you can run a VMware (or
>Windows ) virtual machine
>of Windows XP on Windows XP. Check out the
>VMware web site for all of the details. > > -----Original Message-----
>> From: Delphi [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>Tony Foale > Sent: Sunday, June 08,
>2014 9:51 AM > To: Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi
>Programming excluding Database-related topics > Subject: Re: Running
>Delphi on 64-bit machines > > On 7 June 2014 15:53, Michael
>Rothwell<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> A
>cool feature of the VM solution is that you can backup your VM >>
>(complete with your Win XP& Delphi installation) and restore it to >>
>another PC, and you are ready to go! So you will never have to >>
>reinstall Windows XP or Delphi
>3 again. >> >> > ​That is cool. Can that
>be done on native XP installations?​ > > > > Regards > > Tony Foale >
>> > > [email protected] > http://www.tonyfoale.com >
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