Re: [DUG] Delphi 3 Upgrade

2008-05-27 Thread Todd Martin
Why can't you re-compile the DCLDB30.BPL as a Delphi 5 package? Todd. Hi All, Unfortunately the answer is no. Where can I go to get a professional version at a decent price? TradeMe? Must be almost a give-away by now. Any ideas? Thanks Colin - Original Message - From:

RE: [DUG] Delphi 3 Upgrade

2008-05-27 Thread Sean Cross
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Re: [DUG] Delphi 3 Upgrade

2008-05-27 Thread Colin/Mina
Hi Todd, Simple answer. Because I don't have a clue how to. Where can I look to find out, please. Cheers Colin - Original Message - From: Todd Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:22 PM Subject:

RE: [DUG] Delphi 3 Upgrade

2008-05-27 Thread Myles Penlington
Would not work anyway, as the IDE support is missing and the IDE does? (did) have license checks based on packages. So would be a waste of time. You need to acquire a professional version of some later version. Myles. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DUG] Delphi 3 Upgrade

2008-05-27 Thread Colin/Mina
Hi Sean, Thanks for the suggestion but having looked on the site I can only see an offering for Delphi 2007 which it seems will not allow me to install 3rd party packages three of which which I rely on to make the product useful. I'm being cynical but it seems I'd also have to purchase

[DUG] Calculations affected by login

2008-05-27 Thread John Davys
This is an odd one but I have had the problem demonstrated to me today as I found it hard to believe. I'm using BDS 2006, Delphi personality plus the TMS component set. The application uses a mathematical model to simulate heat transfer and does millions of calculations solving differential

Re: [DUG] Calculations affected by login

2008-05-27 Thread peter
A further point of interest is that a tester, in a different organisation, reports the same issue i.e. it doesn't produce the correct answers as a network user but does on a standalone pc. In this case the standalone pc is a physically different machine. I'm struggling to come up with any

RE: [DUG] Calculations affected by login

2008-05-27 Thread John Davys
I'm trying to think of a way other running processes could affect the numerical calculations in the way described. I've been around long enough to remember the Pentium FDIV bug which is what this reminds me of, except that of course it does produce the right answers on the same machine as a

RE: [DUG] Calculations affected by login

2008-05-27 Thread peter
I'm trying to think of a way other running processes could affect the numerical calculations in the way described. Whereas all the other possible causes are obvious, right? g First rule of troubleshooting - isolate potential causes where possible, even if a mechanism isn't that clear. We're