RE: [DUG]: Inprise/Borland is merging with Corel, and will be called Corel from now on...

2000-02-09 Thread Phil Scadden
We are heavy Corel Draw shop here and the big worry for me is the Corel quality culture had better not infect Borland. Some of the CD releases make MS look good. Our draughting staff maintain several versions of CD because at least the bugs are in different places and between them, they can

[DUG]: DWL - The Delphi Wish List

2000-02-09 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Here it is again. Attached is the list of Wishes from last time. These are as far as I'm aware NOT in D5... This messages is to notify all members of the entire DUG that discussion of features for D6 will be carried out on [EMAIL PROTECTED] the rules 1. All messages pertaining to the wish

[DUG]: DWL - The Delphi Wish List

2000-02-09 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
I sent this WishList to 'The Powers That Be' some months ago, when they were looking for features to put into Delphi 6. I'd suggest we not add to this one -- they've already been evaluated by now, and I'd also suggest that the decisions on features in D6 have been finalized too, so I guess I'm

[DUG]: Server components with Delphi 5.

2000-02-09 Thread Matthew Comb
Does anyone know where a good port of call is to find out how to use the server components (particularly the word ones) with respect to Delphi. Up til now I have always gone createoleobject('word.application') but am going to try the new server components instead, however am a little

Re: [DUG]: What is wrong with this code??

2000-02-09 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
I am getting a 216 error (In a large app) and a 217 (go figure) in a small app that I created (see below for code). The error is occuring when I create a TADOQuery in the initialization section of a unit. Has anybody got any ideas, pointers etc?? Doesn't ADO use the Ole subsystem... if so

[DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Coulter, Jeremy
HI Allespc. Nic, as he will prob., be first to answer this, BUT I noticed that Interbase can be installed under 95/98. For testing purposes and some use, will it be ok installed under 98 ?? or will I need my handy "Press the rest button" finger at the ready ?? Remember, this is just for

[DUG]: Environment Variables

2000-02-09 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hiya all Does anyone know how to read DOS Environment Variables TIA Neven --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

Re: [DUG]: Application Structure

2000-02-09 Thread Xander van der Merwe
Just to throw another one in the pot - look at http://www.genotechs.com/i-markinfo.html for Atromark from GenoTechs. Haven't used it yet and it is still in Beta (I think) but it may be the most simple Delphi-based solution out of the lot (if it works as advertised of course). Xander -

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nah, works fine, NT is of course preferable though I've got around 30 sites running it (even a P100 with 32Mb/Win95) Mostly single user but a few have 2 or 3 users - with no big problems. --- New Zealand Delphi Users

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Nic Wise
HI Allespc. Nic, as he will prob., be first to answer this, BUT I noticed that Interbase can be installed under 95/98. Contrary to popular knowledge, I dont sit here answering these all day. I do work, but I got into the habit of taking micro-pauses (usually when compiling and debugging

RE: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Coulter, Jeremy
Well, I do have a spare box to put linux on...but WHO WANTS TO...EWW LINUX...hahaha JUST KIDDING...no, I need to FIND another HD for the spare box as it died. BUt if it runs on 98 ok, I will just leave it there, so its out of the way... Thanks to those who replied Jeremy Coulter Application

Re: [DUG]: Environment Variables

2000-02-09 Thread Mason, John
I use this (to read the variable 'user'): SetLength(result,8); GetEnvironmentVariable(PChar('user'),PChar(Result),8); John Mason Neven MacEwan wrote: Hiya all Does anyone know how to read DOS Environment Variables TIA Neven

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Simon Mahony
Hi Nic, should be fine. I'd more recommend you use it on Linux if you have a spare machine - more stable - but it will work OK on 9x. 5 users is about the most tho :), but I have had a full ecommerce system (IB, VisiBroker, JSP etc) running on a 98 laptop. Not pretty tho. Nic. I'm

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Nic Wise
Hi Nic, g'day, Simon - long time no talk :) I'm currently running Interbase under 98 and NT with no problems, but I need to get it running on Linux, and THEN get it hooked up to a web-server (apache, of course) via a scripting language. Unfortunately, I have yet to find anything that

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
Unfortunately, I have yet to find anything that will link directly to IB on Linux, and I'm a bit stuck for ideas. Neither PHP or PERL seems quite ready to talk to IB, You can talk to Interbase via DBD::Perl -- it's at the 'usual' DBD archives

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Simon Mahony
g'day, Simon - long time no talk :) Yeah, damn shame we're in different cities... I'm all for JSP, which uses JDBC to connect. I'm doing that at present with the JDK1.2RC2, which is not 100% stable (few leaks here and there), but I havn't had it crash on me yet (been using it for dev. for

Re: [DUG]: Will this be dodgy...or ok ??

2000-02-09 Thread Nic Wise
Thanks, I'll try the two websites you mentioned. I haven't used Java before, but maybe it's worth it if it works. What do you use to write and test the Java code ? JBuilder or something more generic ? I use JBuilder for writing beans (classes), and Allaire Homesite for the JSP's, tho that

[DUG]: Nice Interbase tools

2000-02-09 Thread Coulter, Jeremy
Hi all. are there any tools for interbase that provide a GUI interface that will, say, let you create tables etc. similar to MSSQL or Access etc. ?? Jeremy Coulter Application Developer Application Development Centre Compaq Computer New Zealand Ltd. Phone: 64 3 371 5724 Fax:

Re: [DUG]: Nice Interbase tools

2000-02-09 Thread Nic Wise
Look on interbase.dthomas.co.uk or www.mers.com I kinda like IBDesktop, but there is also Marathon and others. Nic. - Original Message - From: "Coulter, Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 4:52 PM

RE: [DUG]: Nice Interbase tools

2000-02-09 Thread Donovan J. Edye
J, You could also just use SQL Explorer. It worked OK for me --Donovan Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au] Namadgi Systems, Delphi Developer Web: www.namsys.com.au E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +61 2

RE: [DUG]: odbc 3.5

2000-02-09 Thread Wes Edwards
Because of all the interdependencies with ODBC you are recommended to download the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC). This will install ODBC, OLE DB and ADO. http://www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm Read the documents there and download whatever languages you need. Wes Edwards

RE: [DUG]: FAQ's etc??

2000-02-09 Thread Max Renshaw-Fox
In two words... Use MTS (otherwise you get serious hassles with transactions). MSSQL7 still uses DbLib, unless you use ADO which is a whole different learning curve. That means only one cursor per connection which means speed and transaction issues - or lots of code to do multiple sessions -

RE: [DUG]: FAQ's etc??

2000-02-09 Thread Wilfred Verkley
Is there some resources available on the net to learn more about MTS, preferably Delphi MTS? Thanks, Wilfred. -Original Message- From: Max Renshaw-Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 20:30 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: FAQ's

Re: [DUG]: Win 95/registry

2000-02-09 Thread willie
Patrick wrote When it doesn't work, what actually happens it doesn't return the key value even though it's there in the registry. I append "bin\" (or "\bin\") to the GBakPath string and end up with "bin\". What I should end up with is the absolutepath to the