RE: [DUG]: How to track this one down...

2001-07-17 Thread Steve Aish
AHAH!!! I fixed this by removing'ShareMem' from one of my Uses clauses. Could you imagine how long this would take to find if you had no idea what the problem was - searching through 12,000 lines of code? I just love these challenges (tone dripping of sarcasm). What is this? I put this

RE: [DUG]: How to track this one down...

2001-07-17 Thread Cooke, Andrew
Steve, If your DLL is a Delphi DLL, which uses Delphi's string types, then the DLL needs toshare memory management for those strings with the application, hence you include ShareMem.DLL. If you are not using strings, or are using PChars, then you don't need it. Kind regards, Andrew.

RE: [DUG]: Sharing a bitmap between processes

2001-07-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
How about, using the clipboard? and pass custom messages around to say its there, grab it. --On Tuesday, July 17, 2001 13:13:42 +1000 David Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about creating a COM interface on one your applications and use the IPicture type. The SetOlePicture and

[DUG]: More reporting issues

2001-07-17 Thread NIRAV KAKU
Hi guys, QuickReport (QR) has a function called GetExpression which took 3 params earlier and now it takes 5. The first three are the same as the old ones but it's the new ones that are bothering me. Here are the 4th and 5th param. Maybe you could throw some light and tell me what values should

[DUG]: Proportional String Lengths?

2001-07-17 Thread Ross Levis
Here's a Windows dev newbie question. I'm use to working in DOS with a fixed size font. I'm using a Listbox to list 2 column's of data. {I could use a StringGrid but I don't need all the added functionality it adds an extra 50k to the size of the EXE. I like to keep things as simple as

Re: [DUG]: Proportional String Lengths?

2001-07-17 Thread Corey Murtagh
From: Ross Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a Windows dev newbie question. I'm use to working in DOS with a fixed size font. I'm using a Listbox to list 2 column's of data. {I could use a StringGrid but I don't need all the added functionality it adds an extra 50k to the size of the EXE. I

Re: [DUG]: Proportional String Lengths?

2001-07-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
Or you could use a TListView, not sure how much bigger they make the exe? --On Tuesday, July 17, 2001 23:32:54 +1200 Corey Murtagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get the width of a string by calling the TListBox.Canvas.TextExtent method, passing it the string you want to test, then trim

[DUG]: Massive? It's not so big...

2001-07-17 Thread Luke Pascoe
Thanks for all the suggestions, Using the TListView in virtual mode solved all my problems :) It has reliably works with files list 450,000! Thanks to Mark and others who gave suggestions. Luke Pascoe. --- New Zealand

[DUG]: Quick report buttons

2001-07-17 Thread John Christenhusz
Hi, With Quick report, is there any way of disabling the top row buttons (all except the print close button) in the preview? TIA John --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]