[DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Jeremy Coulter
HI all. I just purchased a Palm Pilot, and knowing that you can write your own wee apps etc. for them, I wondered if there was anything out there for delphi that will allow you to create Palm apps. ? I know there are SDK's and there is a product called Code Warrior, but thats $699 dealer

Re:[DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Nic Wise
OK, this is definatly offtopic: 1. You can use Java - the VM is called "KVM" and its on sun.com somewhere. From there, pick your java tool - JBuilder foundation should work very well. 2. Ther eis a port of GCC (I think) for it - its a 68xxx processor, so its not that hard (Dragonball, from

RE: [DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Yeah wasnn't sure if I should make this offtopic or not...but anyway I am REALLY impressed with my new toy tho !! I have just downloaded this wee app. that will let me install officer documents into the palm, whisch is REALLY good. I have my CV on it nowto remind me of the lies I told to

RE: [DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Julian Cellini
The Palm is great! I bougth one to my girlfriend and one to my brother. I'm programing in PocketSmalltalk [www.pocketsmalltalk.com] In www.palm.com you can download an emulator and other things. I'm doing in PocketSmalltalk an excel clone, by the way. -- Desde: Jeremy

RE: [DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Jeremy Coulter
ThanksI am just downloading it now. I did see it lastnight, but I really only glanced at it. I hope it is easy topick upheheehehe Thanks, Jeremy Coulter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian Cellini Sent: Tuesday, February

[DUG]: RTTI in Delphi 5

2000-02-22 Thread Tony Richardson
Hi All, Has anyone successfully used the SetVariantProp() procedure in D5? It seems to change boolean values ok but anything else, colours, text etc fails. For instance:- SetVariantProp(Components[ I ],'Visible',True) works for an edit box, but SetVariantProp(Components[ I

Why no [DUG] meetings in New Zealand?

2000-02-22 Thread Leigh Wanstead
I also subscibed to ADUG, and got lots of messages about their meetings. And I have never heard of DUG meetings in New Zealand. How about that? Best Regards Leigh Wanstead --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi

RE: [DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Tony Goodrich
I have had a member of staff programming on Palm now for the last four months. In all seriousness there is only one product for real grass roots develoment and thats code warrier. Code Warrier is I am afraid a bit behind Microsofts or Borlands PC comiler and as you noted its not cheap we paid

Re: Why no [DUG] meetings in New Zealand?

2000-02-22 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
I also subscibed to ADUG, and got lots of messages about their meetings. And I have never heard of DUG meetings in New Zealand. We're just rather more irregular. Who has some subject they want to do a presentation on? If we can get enough volunteers, I'm sure a meeting could be arranged. They

Re: [DUG]: RTTI in Delphi 5

2000-02-22 Thread Neven MacEwan
Tony go to http://www.delphizine.com/features/1999/11/di199911bt_f/di199911bt_f.asp But I think you should be using SetStringProp Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E. EE - Original Message - From: Tony Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Neven MacEwan
Thanks Aaron But why isn't TEnumType = (VB,Delphi,C++,C,Java) valid? and would it be so hard? also I found that TEnumType = (Left,Right,Up,Down) was valid but case TEnumType(OrdVal) Left: ; // error here as Left is property in scope of form end; This seems to be a scoping problem

[DUG]: IB Transactions

2000-02-22 Thread Simon Mahony
Hi guys, I'm doing my first project with IBExpress components, and have come across a strange behaviour that I'm hoping someone here can explain. I have a TDBGrid on the main form which is connected to a TIBTable. The TIBTable is connected to a TIBDatabase (of course) and to a TDatasource which

Re: [DUG]: Delphi and Palm Pilot Development

2000-02-22 Thread Neven MacEwan
Jeremy SmallTalk! You better watch out! after a real OO language you may never look kindly at Delphi again Regards Neven --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

Re: [DUG]: Freeware XML Class??

2000-02-22 Thread sdemler
I have been looking for a similar component myself. You can try the implementation of SAX that appeared in the Delphi informant but I found this a bit cumbersome. SAX works okay for encoding, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by decoding. If you're talking about rendering HTML from XML,

Re: Why no [DUG] meetings in New Zealand?

2000-02-22 Thread Leigh Wanstead
Who has some subject they want to do a presentation on? And I believe that will be a great place for Inprise or Whatever company marketing too. - Original Message - From: Kerry Sainsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February

RE: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Stacey Verner
The general rule we use is to prefix the enumerations with a code from the name of the enumeration type. TEnumType = (etVB, etDelphi, etC++, etC, etJava); This usually gets around the problem of properties with same name. -Original Message- From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: IB Transactions

2000-02-22 Thread Myles Penlington
Ah yes.. I think if you try commitretaining instead it will be okay. Myles. -Original Message- From: Simon Mahony [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2000 09:43 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: IB Transactions Hi guys, I'm doing

Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Neven MacEwan
Stacey Pls refer to my earlier mail I was talking about using the RTTI function GetEnumName to populate a stringlist (such as a set of radio buttons) from a EnumType so that ItemIndex can be used sensibly The problem with TEnumType = (etVB, etDelphi, etC++, etC, etJava); Is not a dup name it's

Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Thanks Aaron But why isn't TEnumType = (VB,Delphi,C++,C,Java) valid? and would it be so hard? also I found that TEnumType = (Left,Right,Up,Down) was valid but case TEnumType(OrdVal) Left: ; // error here as Left is property in scope of form There's your reason why it's not

Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Pls refer to my earlier mail I was talking about using the RTTI function GetEnumName to populate a stringlist (such as a set of radio buttons) from a EnumType so that ItemIndex can be used sensibly The problem with TEnumType = (etVB, etDelphi, etC++, etC, etJava); Is not a dup name it's

[DUG]: BDE 5.11

2000-02-22 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
A new BDE update, version 5.11, is now available for download from our website at: http://www.borland.com/devsupport/bde/bdeupdate.html --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Neven MacEwan
Aaron As always thanks for your considered response, I also liked your enum/string array const solution but still why have 2 structures when 1 seems to be called for (an EnumStringArray Constant) since these are declared locally I dont usually have a scope problem. As interp/script languages

RE: [DUG]: BDE 5.11

2000-02-22 Thread Carl Reynolds
Title: RE: [DUG]: BDE 5.11 What's changed from 5.10? The website doesn't say. -Original Message- From: Kerry Sainsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2000 9:16 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: BDE 5.11 A new BDE update, version

RE: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Myles Penlington
Most source material does not reach the executable .. eg Enumeration identifiers only reach the executable if you use RTTI on them, and unreachable code sections are elimated from the EXE - but not from a DLL or package (if they are visible externally). Myles. -Original Message-

Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement

2000-02-22 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
As always thanks for your considered response, I also liked your enum/string array const solution but still why have 2 structures when 1 seems to be called for (an EnumStringArray Constant) since these are declared locally I dont usually have a scope problem. I think it's important to

[DUG]: Delphi 5 Trial CD Registration

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Osborne
I've got my CD and am following the procedure to get my key from the Borland website but the registration process falls over each time I try once I've submitted my details. I'm using IE5, with cookies enabled. I have completed all required fields ... Afer the delay on submitting I get -

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Trial CD Registration

2000-02-22 Thread Nic Wise
Hi Mike, Any clues as to how I can fix this to load up my Delphi 5 trial? I just tried the trial rego and it worked OK - I guess your having problems with the community.borland.com registration - the only thing I can think of is to fire an email to the webmaster, and wait for it to be fixed.

[DUG]: Exception: Linkfields to detail must be unique

2000-02-22 Thread Carl Reynolds
Title: Exception: Linkfields to detail must be unique I'm getting this error when trying to post a newly inserted record into a master ClientDataSet. The problem only happens on insertion, and only on the master CDS. Everything else works fine. The offending error happens in InternalPost -

[DUG]: Filtering a database using dates

2000-02-22 Thread james
I filter a database using the following code taking dates from two datetime pickers. DateFilter := 'Solddate = ''' + Datetostr(dates.First.datetime) + ; DateFilter := DateFilter + ' AND Solddate = ''' + Datetostr(dates.last.datetime); items.filter := datefilter; The problem is that it

Re: [DUG]: Filtering a database using dates

2000-02-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I filter a database using the following code taking dates from two datetime pickers. DateFilter := 'Solddate = ''' + Datetostr(dates.First.datetime) + ; DateFilter := DateFilter + ' AND Solddate = ''' + Datetostr(dates.last.datetime); items.filter :=

Re: [DUG]: Filtering a database using dates

2000-02-22 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
I filter a database using the following code taking dates from two datetime pickers. DateFilter := 'Solddate = ''' + Datetostr(dates.First.datetime) + ; DateFilter := DateFilter + ' AND Solddate = ''' + Datetostr(dates.last.datetime); items.filter := datefilter; The problem is

RE: Re: Why no [DUG] meetings in New Zealand?

2000-02-22 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] Hi all, With respect to this topic, I am certainly keen to help make it happen more often if that is what people want. But remember as a User Group WE make it happen. Borland/Corel have always come to the party g and provided the where-with-all to make the meeting happen - also the

RE: [DUG]: Exception: Linkfields to detail must be unique

2000-02-22 Thread Carl Reynolds
Title: Exception: Linkfields to detail must be unique I have got around the problem by emptying my master dataset before inserting;it runs off a parameterised query which only ever displays one record anyway. Rereading the error, one of my detail datasets must be linking to something in the

Re: Re: Why no [DUG] meetings in New Zealand?

2000-02-22 Thread Leigh Wanstead
I am certainly keen to help make it happen more often if that is what people want. Thank you. I believe Inprise/Corel got lots of new stuff in Delphi 5 which will be very interested for presentation. Will it be good to get it happens at night, so more people can enjoy it rather than at working

Re: Re: Why no [DUG] meetings in New Zealand?

2000-02-22 Thread Nic Wise
I believe Inprise/Corel got lots of new stuff in Delphi 5 which will be very interested for presentation. Did that about 6 months ago (well, tried to :) ). Next big 'update' would have to be Kylix, assuming nothing else comes along first. And no, there are not betas out yet. :) Will it

[DUG]: Finding a file on the harddrive

2000-02-22 Thread james
Anyone have/know where to get a procedure to find a file on a hard drive. Like windows find but taking the full name and returning the path. I was going to use findfirst/next but I though surely this has been done before. Thank you James

[DUG]: Problem with OldCreateOrder....

2000-02-22 Thread Donovan J. Edye
G'Day All, Env D5Ent, NT4WKS SP4 I have in unit1: type TSQLSelect = class(TFrame) etc, And in unit2: type TSQLSelectMatch = class(TSQLSelect) etc The following happens for (OldCreateOrder, PixelsPerInch, TextHeight) but I am going to describe it as if it only occurs for OldCreateOrder.