[DUG]: Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
Well, I just want to say congrats to Nic Wise for a demo well done, whilst still very much a "beta" product, it certainly works, although I was interested in the lack of a bidirectional cursor for the queries - Nic - any chance you could explain what was happening there? I assume dbExpress is

Re: [DUG]: Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Nic Wise
Well, I just want to say congrats to Nic Wise for a demo well done, whilst still very much a "beta" product, it certainly works, although I was interested in the lack of a bidirectional cursor for the queries - Nic - any chance you could explain what was happening there? I assume dbExpress

Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread Rohit Gupta
Mark, you still have to connect. Here is my simple console app to send mail via cmd line. program BATMAIL; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} {$R-,S-,Q-,D-,Y+,L+,O+} uses SysUtils, NmSmtp, RGUseful; var Smtp : TNMSMTP; begin Writeln (crlf, 'BATMAIL (C) Copyright 2000 Rohit Gupta', crlf); if

Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread Rohit Gupta
In my case, I have mdaemon running on my PC, so that grabs the mail and dials out whenever. The alternative is to dial out first and connect to xtra or whatever, but then you need to use their address etc. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send

[DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread James Tyson
Well, I just want to say congrats to Nic Wise for a demo well done, whilst still very much a "beta" product, it certainly works, although I was interested in the lack of a bidirectional cursor for the queries - Nic - any chance you could explain what was happening there? I assume dbExpress

Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Howard
Rohit Thanks very much for that - there is now a glimmer of light! So - there are 3 situations 1. Single user system. I manually dial up xtra and get a connection. When I run my original code (with some Body text included) and SendMessage, it runs great. :-) 2. The target system is a peer

RE: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread James Sugrue
Control Panel | Internet Options | Connections Select either of the bottom two options - Always dial my default connection -Original Message- From: Mark Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2000 06:00 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re:

Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Howard
James Using Win2K. Setting this to either of the bottom two options: Dial if there is no connection and Always dial my default connection with xtra set as the default, just gives me the error messages that started this thread. Mark - Original Message - From: "James Sugrue" [EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: Dissapearing app...

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alex Kouznetsov wrote: 3) Instead of ShellExecute try to use CreateProcess (with properly released process and thread handles immidiately after loading the application) Do you have any example code on using CreateProcess? The last time I was playing with that I could never

Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread Rohit Gupta
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Mark Howard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [DUG]: Simple Email Date sent: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:59:55 -0800 Rohit Thanks

Re: [DUG]: Dissapearing app...

2000-12-11 Thread Greg Amer
Try this mark, you might change the wShowWindow to be something else if you don't want to hide your application eg. SW_SHOWNORMAL; Cheers Greg procedure TThing.Execute; var si : TStartupInfo; Appinfo : TProcessInformation; begin GetStartupInfo(si); si.dwFlags :=

Re: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Kurt
James Tyson wrote: Well, I just want to say congrats to Nic Wise for a demo well done, whilst still very much a "beta" product, it certainly works, although I was interested in the lack of a bidirectional cursor for the queries - Nic - any chance you could explain what was happening

Re: [DUG]: Dissapearing app...

2000-12-11 Thread Alex Kouznetsov
No nothing special. This is how I use. procedure StartApplication (sexe: string); var StartupInfo: TStartupInfo; ProcessInfo: TProcessInformation; begin FillChar(StartupInfo, SizeOf(TStartupInfo), 0); StartupInfo.cb := SizeOf(TStartupInfo); if CreateProcess(Nil,PChar(sexe),nil, nil,

Re: [DUG]: Dissapearing app...

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alex Kouznetsov wrote: procedure StartApplication (sexe: string); var StartupInfo: TStartupInfo; ProcessInfo: TProcessInformation; begin Hmm, I'm beginning to wonder if this is actually the problem the scenario is, I have two applications, one runs as a screen

Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Howard
Rohit I'll send a wee test app to the target site and see how it goes. Re the RasDial thingamybob - I would be interested, if the author has no objection. Really appreciate your help on this. Mark - Original Message - From: "Rohit Gupta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Multiple recipients of list

Re: [DUG]: Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Neven MacEwan
Nic (if you're awake) although I was interested in the lack of a bidirectional cursor for the queries - Nic - any chance you could explain what was happening there? I assume dbExpress is designed differently... Could you please elucidate Neven

Re: [DUG]: Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Nic Wise
Nic (if you're awake) definatly asleep. although I was interested in the lack of a bidirectional cursor for the queries - Nic - any chance you could explain what was happening there? I assume dbExpress is designed differently... Could you please elucidate The new dbExpress stuff

Re: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Rohit Gupta
James, I have a different view. As much as I hate the bad quality of WIN OS. 1. Anyone would have to love punishment to want Linux on the desktop. 2. Anyone would have to be into SM to want their users to use Linux on the desktop. I see the ability to support Linux for my apps as a

[DUG]: Playing a string

2000-12-11 Thread Joo Alberto
I wrote a peace of code that do this : 1 - The user writes a number 2 - That number is converted to its soundable equivalent 3 - The resulting string is broken in peaces of text 4 - To each peace of text we have a file named 'PeaceOfText.Wav', like ONE.WAV, HUNDRED.WAV, CENT.WAV, CENTS.WAV

Re: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are kidding right? Maybe, but the number of times I've seen my the networking stuff crap out and having to need a reinstall before it'll work again is enough for me :P And yes, I know what other windows boxes run fine without hassle, so do alot

Re: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Rohit Gupta
Touche, however, I have used unix and managed unix server for years and I still spend less time on wincrap more than I would like . and more than I had to on OS2.. :-) To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Carl Reynolds
From: Nic Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The new dbExpress stuff only does unidirectional cursors - ie, top to bottom. It then is supposed to connect to a MIDAS CDS-like thing that cache's results in memory so you can do table-like things, ie forward and backwards. But I couldn't find the

RE: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

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RE: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

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RE: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

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[DUG]: Not so easy Email!!

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Howard
Hello I made a small app with a SendMail button. Here is the code. procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);begin NMSMTP1.Host := 'smtp.xtra.co.nz'; NMSMTP1.UserID := 'mhoward'; NMSMTP1.PostMessage.ToAddress.Add('[EMAIL PROTECTED]'); NMSMTP1.PostMessage.FromAddress := '[EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: Re: [nzlug] Tonights Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Nic Wise
2. Anyone would have to be into SM to want their users to use Linux on the desktop. I disagree, Rohit, but ONLY if your app is the only app used on the machine, and the user NEVER EVER needs anything else - then it can take the whole screen up, and you dont have to worry so much about the OS

Re: [DUG]: Kylix Demo

2000-12-11 Thread Nic Wise
Um, there shoud be some stuff on borland.com/delphi under the kylix section. I'm not sure tho. Basically, its a client data set that feeds form this data source (the uni-directional dataset), and holds the rows you've seen in memory, the same as TClientDataSet. This gives you forward and

Re: [DUG]: Playing a string

2000-12-11 Thread Corey Murtagh
João Alberto wrote: I wrote a peace of code that do this : 1 - The user writes a number 2 - That number is converted to its soundable equivalent 3 - The resulting string is broken in peaces of text 4 - To each peace of text we have a file named 'PeaceOfText.Wav', like ONE.WAV,

[DUG]: ADOExpress

2000-12-11 Thread Laurence Bevan
Having seen the performance of ADO through VB and given that most popular databases can now supply an OLEDB driver, I'm considering buying ADO Express. From those of you out there using it, what's your opinion of it, does it integrate into Delphi 5 (Pro) well, and where do I get it?