Re: [DUG] PDFCreator

2007-11-08 Thread Neven MacEwan
I'd have also to throw the original FreePDF XP into the mix, has anyone used primo on a terminal Server? (At least PDFCreator says it does work on TS) Neven A better PDF creator is Primo - just google for Primo PDF. Its freeware and produces better quality output. - Original

Re: [DUG] Source Control - ToritoiseSVN - Importing without Deletion

2007-10-15 Thread Neven MacEwan
peter You have to 'add' then 'commit' FWIW, by subsequently doing an Add and a Commit for all the unversioned files, it came right. Wonder if it's a SubVersion/Tortoise logic change between versions, or sommat. Strangely enough, when I follow the process you described, it does NOT detect

Re: [DUG] Salaries in NZ?

2007-09-13 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit Stop telling everyone! they'll all want to come. Mind you its fine as long as they settle within a 50k radius of Auckland Airport (which seems to be the case) N Csaba, If you want money, go to US. If you want a life then come here. Csaba Gajo wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:39:29

Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

2007-09-04 Thread Neven MacEwan
Borland haven't quite got to grips with the internet yet have they, if they put up an online help system we could actually contribute If I was developing a new app now the first thing i'd do is put in an ajaxed help system (sort of an embedded wiki) Neven David Brennan wrote: Yep... I'll

Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

2007-09-04 Thread Neven MacEwan
, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Borland haven't quite got to grips with the internet yet have they, if they put up an online help system we could actually contribute When you buy a product from a company do you expect to have to write the help files for said product as well

Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

2007-09-04 Thread Neven MacEwan
J PHP is open source. Delphi is not. I think that is a big difference. Explain? You can already send back help snippets and feedback to CodeGear. How many topics have you done that for so far? In my experiance posting stuff to a big corporate is a waste of time, My point was that they

Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc

2007-09-04 Thread Neven MacEwan
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy North Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2007 2:25 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc On 9/5/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Borland haven't quite got to grips

Re: [DUG] date format help in TDateTimePicker

2007-08-27 Thread Neven MacEwan
Vikas From memory these are the short and long system date formats so you have 2 options 1/ change your system settings 2/ override the long and short format (there is a function for this) HTH Neven Hi I am using TDateTimePicker to display date in Delphi 5 But the problem is i am not

Re: [DUG] Indy Smtp and XTRA

2007-08-26 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit I must admit I'm trying not to feel a little smug, we have advised businesses to get their own domain name and email servers for several years (using linux sendmail) and that @xtra.co.nz was not a good business practice. The argument I always gave was that it makes your business look

Re: [DUG] for..loop

2007-08-07 Thread Neven MacEwan
John This is where 'optimisation' comes in it would count down because 'jump zero' is a single instruction but would only apply this if there was no reference to the loop var ie var i: integer for i:= 0 to 3 do begin write('hello') end; but don't do for i:= 0 to 3 do begin end;

Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted

2007-08-02 Thread Neven MacEwan
Wouldn't there be a 8bit thai codepage? 874? I think the delphi-gems web site also has some unicode stuff from memory. I would have thought though if you changed to the correct codepage or character set, that then you could use the correct symbol - however it would not have Unicode character

Re: [DUG] tMemo, Stop updating

2007-07-31 Thread Neven MacEwan
Steve Memo1.lines.Beginupdate? or something like that Bloody stupid question I know, but I spent all day traversing 3 tons of spaghetti code and my mind is mush. Is there a way that I can tell a tMemo component not to keep updating when I process all the lines. I have a tMemo component with,

Re: [DUG] Pulling status bar text off another application

2007-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Matt What if the Manufacturer of that third party software changes their layout? or changes TStatusBar to TEnhancedStatusBar, then your code stops working. Hell we work with that everyday, its one of the joys of working with Microsoft, There are no guarantees Matt. Yes you are

Re: [DUG] Show splash screen across two exe files

2007-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Leigh I would do a slightly different sequence you run a, which shows the splashscreen and lauches b, when b has initialises it sets a mutex which a detects and exits (closing the splash) HTH Neven Hello everyone, I got two exe files a.exe, b.exe. I want a.exe startup to show a splash

Re: [DUG] Com support

2007-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
I'm not an expert in COM exe's but have you checked the registry - is it a GUID problem? ie the interface is there but not with the ID the machine has registered N Robert martin wrote: Further to the stuff below just tested it on a Third machine and no go also on that machine (but it still

Re: [DUG] Com support

2007-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Neven MacEwan wrote: I'm not an expert in COM exe's but have you checked the registry - is it a GUID problem? ie the interface is there but not with the ID the machine has registered N Robert martin wrote

Re: [DUG] Slightly OT

2007-07-26 Thread Neven MacEwan
Richard Ingram Micro Hi guys, When you buy computer hardware, where do you buy it from? Myself, I tend to buy from PBTech here in Auckland, when I was working in Wellington for a while I purchased from Ascent. Do Hamilton people buy from Hamilton vendors? Do Christchurch guys buy from

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-26 Thread Neven MacEwan
David If only it was that simple, 30 years ago the NZ/US ex rate was about 2 which shows how much we have slipped. I realise this is off topic but as long as we persist with a zealous socialist egalitarian government that would happily flog off anything to fund its experiments (which seem to

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-25 Thread Neven MacEwan
() To reinforce this, why did they introduce a 'class' keyword if they were already there? N Class types, consts and vars came in D2006, I think, or might be in D2005. - Original Message - From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-25 Thread Neven MacEwan
- Rental management made easy http://www.sourceitsoftware.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2007 8:19 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] basic question

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-25 Thread Neven MacEwan
Jeremy Hence the If On 7/26/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Use both, though if I was posting authoritively, I'd say Since Delphi 2... Which is great since neither were in Delphi 2 as well. Interfaces - Delphi 3 Dynamic arrays - Delphi 4 Which also reraises the issue

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-25 Thread Neven MacEwan
Regards, Chua, Chee Wee CCNA, MCSE, SCJP, SCSA, CodeGear(tm), from Borland Where developers matter www.codegear.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: 25 July 2007 15:26 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-25 Thread Neven MacEwan
Jeremy Use both, though if I was posting authoritively, I'd say Since Delphi 2... Which also reraises the issue of What is Delphi now we have Delphi for PHP? Neven My point is Delphi (generic) does not have Class Methods/Vars or are you saying that 'Delphi' only applies to D2005+ Thanks

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-25 Thread Neven MacEwan
the same class var), I would regard that as a bug. Can't say I've tried though. Myles. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 09:16 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] basic

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-24 Thread Neven MacEwan
Ani What you are referring to is a Class Method and no Delphi does not have them (though other OO languages do) it also does not have class variables (hence there is not need for Class Methods is the logic I presume) The reason your code works is that the method you called makes no

Re: [DUG] basic question

2007-07-24 Thread Neven MacEwan
Static1; class procedure Static2; static; end; Best Regards, Chua, Chee Wee CCNA, MCSE, SCJP, SCSA, CodeGear(tm), from Borland Where developers matter www.codegear.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: 25

Re: [DUG] 2007 - Where is Tee Chart

2007-07-23 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit That'll teach you for not sub-classing :-) Thanks, it helps to read the error message properly. I jumped to the conclusion that it wasnt there and there are many many people around the world complaining about it too. :-) They have made a property and a method protected arrgghh.

Re: [DUG] 2007 next annoyance

2007-07-20 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit Which version of infopower? Whats left is VirtualTreeView, CrystalReports and QuickReports I have finished IBO and DWS Richard Vowles wrote: Rohit Gupta wrote: What is a wink demo ?? http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Free flash recording of your desktop. Alister I use Camtasia but

Re: [DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement

2007-07-17 Thread Neven MacEwan
VLC? Steve Peacocke wrote: I am finally giving up on all the problems that Windows Media Player are giving and am searching for a total replacement. As most VCLs are wrappers around the Windows Media Player, can anyone suggest an alternative that does not use this buggy player. I only need a

Re: [DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement

2007-07-17 Thread Neven MacEwan
that can use this? Steve On 18/07/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VLC? Steve Peacocke wrote: I am finally giving up on all the problems that Windows Media Player are giving and am searching for a total replacement. As most VCLs are wrappers around the Windows Media Player, can

Re: [DUG] Where is TypeInfo?

2007-07-01 Thread Neven MacEwan
Steve You should have noticed he dropped the 'e' also Myles is spelt with a y You seem to be having char errors Parrot on Pirate 1 shoulder:Pieces of Nine, Pieces of Nine Pirate 2: Whats wrong with him? Pirate 1: Parroty Error On 02/07/07, Myles Penlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have

Re: [DUG] Where is TypeInfo?

2007-07-01 Thread Neven MacEwan
Mind you this is coming from [C][K]arl And now everyone is saying Miles instead of Myles Classic! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, that one brought a smile. :) Miles doesn't know much better than the advice he gave, but he knows much better than the advice that you think he gave!! Try again -

Re: [DUG] Anyone need XP Pro?

2007-06-17 Thread Neven MacEwan
Richard Being as cynical as I am it would probable be easier to get anyone to give a +ve attribute of Vista (thats a challenge to everyone) your statement would also mean the XP was now the second most irritating to use operating systems in history. And everything was moved for no apparent

Re: [DUG] Anyone need XP Pro?

2007-06-17 Thread Neven MacEwan
of it ..hehehe) but only as a dual boot. I like what MS have done with vista, but just hate the whole thing about autherising stuff to run. THAT annyoes me ! Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: 18 June 2007 14:01 To: NZ

Re: [DUG] Anyone need XP Pro?

2007-06-14 Thread Neven MacEwan
Brian Ingram Micro (neeTechpac) sold oem with a hdd so your point is? after all M$ is not the riaa Neven Hi Berend, - Original Message - From: Berend de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:53 PM

Re: [DUG] Friday afternoon question

2007-06-14 Thread Neven MacEwan
Dave Same way isn't is TblobField.Savetostream? I am storing data in a SQL Server 2000 image field. I have no problem writing the image to the table, but have a complete block for getting the image out again... I am using D2005 and TADOQuery. Any help please. Total mind blank. Regards,

Re: [DUG] The BDE API formerly known as the Paradox Engine

2007-06-12 Thread Neven MacEwan
Paul You could probably say the same about ODBC ie trying to unify the access method to an RDB and an ISAM have some fundamental issues, and how many bites has M$ had at this ADO and RDO and little lambs eat ivyla la and they still couldn't do it well. I've had a number of stoushes on this

Re: [DUG] The BDE API formerly known as the Paradox Engine

2007-06-12 Thread Neven MacEwan
Paul I sometimes wonder if the problem is that developers start with too small sets of test data and design their navigation logic around that not realising of course in real life above a 100 records or so the rules change One thing I hated about ADO was its insistence on concurrency

Re: [DUG] The BDE API formerly known as the Paradox Engine

2007-06-12 Thread Neven MacEwan
Paul What I meant was that ISAMs encouraged Key-Prev/Next, PgUp/PgDn data navigation, whereas RDMS didn't work that well with this logic, better to use Key - Subset - Select from list logic, which fits with larger datasets, though you will occasionally see a recidivist hammering the page down

Re: [DUG] Simple VCL for web aplication

2007-06-10 Thread Neven MacEwan
Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Neven MacEwan wrote: Robert I'd recommend PHP for the Server code, its so trivial i don't see you needing an IDE (though if you do decide you need one look at www.nusphere.com) for my first year of PHP dev

Re: [DUG] Simple VCL for web aplication

2007-06-07 Thread Neven MacEwan
Robert Is this a web app? ie a browser based client? I'd use PHP and AJAX (which is what Delphi for PHP uses) If you want roll your own look at this ajax lib http://www.ajaxtoolbox.com/request/ From the way your expressing yourself (ie SOAP) I think you are looking at a Fat client talking

Re: [DUG] Simple VCL for web aplication

2007-06-07 Thread Neven MacEwan
Ltd Neven MacEwan wrote: Robert Is this a web app? ie a browser based client? I'd use PHP and AJAX (which is what Delphi for PHP uses) If you want roll your own look at this ajax lib http://www.ajaxtoolbox.com/request/ From the way your expressing yourself (ie SOAP) I think you

[DUG] Epiphany

2007-05-22 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi Yeah ok this is off-topic but I thought I'd share, and a lot of us do db work Its always aggravated me doing percentages or ratios in SQL because of the possiblility of a div 0 error (you can wrap an if or case around it sure) but if you are doing this on a aggregate/group by it gets

[DUG] XP Search

2007-05-21 Thread Neven MacEwan
Having just upgraded to xp (yeah I know) what is it with its search an delphi files! I can see the file and search can't find it! Neven ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin:

Re: [DUG] Why use a set when a string will work OK (and less code )?

2007-05-10 Thread Neven MacEwan
Steve Please explain? also why you are at it why is the diminutive of Stephen Steve? Neven Interesting stuff... Is it just me or is anyone else horrified by the with statement abuse in example function getStructures? Steve -Original Message- From: Sean Cross [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [DUG] Why use a set when a string will work OK (and less code )?

2007-05-10 Thread Neven MacEwan
Jeremy I always though they should enhance the with statement with and as clause ie if ( Components[ siCom ] is TAdoDataSet ) then with ( Components[ siCom ] as tAdoDataSet ) as Dataset do begin Dataset.Open; ... otherwise I do var DataSet: tAdoDataSet; if (

Re: [DUG] Why use a set when a string will work OK (and less code )?

2007-05-10 Thread Neven MacEwan
/stories/2004/04/05/writingSolidDelphiCode.html (Under the heading Hard to see, the Dark Side is about 2/3 down the page.) Steve (I guess because like the with statement it saves a little typing and one syllable) -Original Message- From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [DUG] Why use a set when a string will work OK (and less code)?

2007-05-09 Thread Neven MacEwan
Nick Thats why you use a lower case prefix ie tmsActive, tmsPending, ... verssu tllNormal, tllError, tllEnded... HTH Neven Nice thats even shorter :-) So following on from this, what happens when you want to do something like this TMyStatus = (Active, Pending, Ended, Paused, Deleted,

[DUG] Object Inspector

2007-05-09 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi Does anyone use an Object Inspector Component, I'm looking to replace the Dream one TIA Neven ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send

Re: [DUG] Dumb Friday Question

2007-05-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
You guys don't consider a constructor a function then? I think its totally stylistic, if you want to have functions returning objects fine, just make it plain that they do, IMHO Neven I would endorse Rob's answer here. I don't consider it just a question of potential leaks, it's about

Re: [DUG] Dumb Friday Question

2007-05-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi The solution is to use interfaces, but if you don't it would be difficult to implement a factory pattern There is this thing in OO language users which seems to be the muddy area between scalars and objects, ie is a TStringList a simple object or a complex scalar, of course it doesn't help

Re: [DUG] Dumb Friday Question

2007-05-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
Giovanni If the sun is shining in palmy its probably 4 below 0 You should definatetly be using intefaces not pointer for this this way you can do reference counting Neven Tim Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly I agree with the sentiment that you should try and avoid creating

Re: [DUG] Dumb Friday Question

2007-05-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
- I was there for a few years (a long time ago). Myles. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 05:13 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Dumb Friday Question Giovanni

Re: [DUG] Anyone got Crystal 11 to test major bug in CR

2007-04-04 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit I've got X1 release 2 N Has anyone got CR11 installed who is willing to try an very tiny app to prove that CR is stuffed ? Neven MacEwan wrote: Rohit Gupta wrote: Hey Robert Zimmerman got a song for you, bout a young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue Glad you found

Re: [DUG]: Another custom component question

2003-11-13 Thread Neven MacEwan
Dave Do you mean properties not methods? The short answer is no, you have two options 1/ derive a 'Policy' and an 'Advisor' table from a base 'CustomTable' 2/ bitch if properties are accessed when not applicable (this is the nasty method) I don't really like this as you are altyering the

Re: [DUG]: Basic question on custom components

2003-11-11 Thread Neven MacEwan
Ross Others have replied and pointed out the method (same as a TDatasource and TDataSet link) Also you should override procedure Notification(AComponent: TComponent; Operation: TOperation); override; which is called when a component instance is destroyed (so that you can clear your pointer

Re: [DUG]: CVS

2003-11-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit We are using Subversion, (Great for concurrent checkouts) with tortoise, and we version control binaries as well. the subversion tree doen't need to be structured the same as your structure (the 'unit' of version control is a dir) Neven - Original Message - From: Rohit Gupta

Re: [DUG]: Crystal Reports

2003-11-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit Sorry you did ask me this question, Yes TechPac and Melco (BDT) are distributors There are some 'partners' as well N - Original Message - From: Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:46 AM

Re: [DUG]: Schedule Tasks

2003-11-02 Thread Neven MacEwan
J Have you looked for a windows version of chron? Neven - Original Message - From: vss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:52 AM Subject: [DUG]: Schedule Tasks Hi all. I am looking for a control that will let

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 7 - Designeditors

2003-10-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Rohit This was introduced in D6, The runtime and designtime pachages have to be separate, There are numerous google refs to this, HTH Neven - Original Message - From: Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003

Re: [DUG]: modify field type

2003-10-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Conor No, some can some cant Neven - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: modify field type Surely this is standard behaviour for a SQL database? Cheers, Conor

Re: [DUG]: Weighted average in SQL

2003-10-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Mark SELECT (Select sum(Volume*Price) from Table) / (Select sum(Volume) from Table) as AvgPrice? Neven - Original Message - From: Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:45 AM Subject: [DUG]:

Re: [DUG]: Weighted average in SQL

2003-10-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
On 31 Oct 2003 at 11:59, Neven MacEwan wrote: Mark SELECT (Select sum(Volume*Price) from Table) / (Select sum(Volume) from Table) as AvgPrice? Neven - Original Message - From: Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: Just wondering...

2003-10-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Ahh but are we talking 'efficiency' or 'code speed'? what about 'code size' Just stirring 8-) Neven - Original Message - From: David Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:01 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Just

Re: [DUG]: one for the MSDE people

2003-10-29 Thread Neven MacEwan
J If they already have MSSQL just attach your database to their server (look at sp_attach_db and sp_detach_db), If your DB is 7 and their 2000 it will be upgraded on the attach This is probably a good reason not to use MSDE 2000 as you will still come across people with MS SQL 7 in which case

Re: [DUG]: Calrification - if anyone can

2003-10-29 Thread Neven MacEwan
J For simplicity I would not fear MSDE, It is a one click install You will face more difficulty with 2 versions N - Original Message - From: vss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]:

Re: [DUG]: Handling exceptions

2003-10-13 Thread Neven MacEwan
Also have a look at the val function Neven - Original Message - From: gajo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:52 AM Subject: [DUG]: Handling exceptions Hi, I have to convert a string to integer. When a string

Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-08 Thread Neven MacEwan
OSes like Linux which allow natively compiled applications will have a huge speed advantage. Why? In my experiance a well designed meta-machine imposes very little penalty, and .NET has the advantage of M$ having the JVM as a prototype (as well as the fact that they only have to satisfy their

Re: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-08 Thread Neven MacEwan
Phil Why are they dogs? One thing to remember with the JVM is that AFAIK Graphics capabiltiy is DrawText, DrawLine and DrawPixel which makes it worse than useless for a seroius GUI App N - Original Message - From: Phil Scadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi

Re: [DUG]: Deleting from Live Query dataset

2003-10-08 Thread Neven MacEwan
DataSet.Delete? - Original Message - From: Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:24 AM Subject: [DUG]: Deleting from Live Query dataset Hi all Using D5 and DBISAM and no data aware visual components

Re: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Neven MacEwan
Richard X-windows amazes me as well, It is so bandwidth hungry With the rise of thin computing I wonder why there isn't an open source project to do a 'terminal server' with linux (There are commercial ones), but the bugbear is XWindows (and don't mention VNC it isn't a lot better), Thin Client

[DUG]: Win32 Dead?

2003-10-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
Richard What rarified air you must breathe, Hell I've got clients i can't wean of DOS let alone tell them Win32 is dead Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E. EE Ph 649 621 0001 Fax 649 621 0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- New

Re: [DUG]: Moving to MSDE

2003-10-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
J Its v simple, In my experiance MSDE is indistinguishable from SQL 7 The one caveate is that some queries will run slower, they have removed some of the query opt stuff from MSDE, I use a kbmMemtable loaded from ADO and my own resolver Also if you want to manage an MSDE site we have an

Re: [DUG]: Moving to MSDE

2003-10-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
, how exactly do you get started with MSDE? Do you basically do everything in SQLServer then export it? Maybe you have a site I can look at? Thanks, Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 10

[DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool

2003-10-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
Alan Yeah, i'm happy for it to go into the public domain (We don't realy want to support it), It uses virtualtreeview and is a warpper for the SQL-DMO Objects I'd prefer to keep it under subversion (so everyone benfits from changes) so if anyone else would like access to it I'll set up a public

Re: [DUG]: Moving to MSDE

2003-10-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 10:21 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Moving to MSDE J Its v simple, In my experiance MSDE is indistinguishable from

Re: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool

2003-10-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com - Original Message - From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:45 AM Subject: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool Alan Yeah, i'm happy for it to go

Re: [DUG]: This has been raised before BUT

2003-09-18 Thread Neven MacEwan
. Jeremy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2003 14:35 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: This has been raised before BUT J Don't know

Re: [DUG]: Sending emails with Outlook

2003-09-17 Thread Neven MacEwan
Yeah, If your process stalls cluster bomb the screen with clicks :-) Neven - Original Message - From: Dennis Chuah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:28 AM Subject: [DUG]: Sending emails with Outlook Folks,

Re: [DUG]: POS Entry

2003-09-11 Thread Neven MacEwan
James If I was starting from scratch I'd look at VirtualTreeView, Its a Tree, its a Grid, its a Trid and has a simple interface for embedding Editors (which can span columns!) Neven - Original Message - From: James F Sugrue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi

[DUG]: SImple smtp agent

2003-09-10 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi Can anyone recommend a component for sending emails via an SMTP server? Simple (non HTML) with attachments TIA Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E. EE Ph 649 621 0001 Fax 649 621 0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- New

[DUG]: ClientRect

2003-09-08 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi Whats the best way to find the ClientRect offset of a form? I'm trying to position a chlid component within a form but am starting with the screen pos, which I convert, but i think I also have to take into account the Forms non-client area (ie borders) TIA Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E.

Re: [DUG]: How do I copy the state of one object to another?

2003-08-27 Thread Neven MacEwan
Dave You could use RTTI, There are some good tutorials around google Delphi RTTI Neven - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:50 PM Subject: [DUG]: How do I copy the state of one object

Re: [DUG]: Access Violations

2003-08-24 Thread Neven MacEwan
J Also from the help Dynamic arrays can never be deallocated using the Dispose procedure, but can be freed by passing them to Finalize. Its an alternative to SetLength(D,0) N - Original Message - From: vss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[DUG]: Form Scrollbars

2003-08-20 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi Im popping up a TScrollBox with SetWindowPos(Handle, WinAttribute, At.X, At.Y, 0, 0, SWP_NOACTIVATE or SWP_NOSIZE); The parent of the TScrollBox is the form but when it pops up outside the X dim of the current component (A TwwDBGrid) the Form generates Vert Scroll Bars (to keep the popup

Re: [DUG]: Form Scrollbars

2003-08-20 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi Solved this last nite, Set the popup panel to Align = alCustom Which means the form ignores it during requestalign, it seems that alNone does not mean none at all 8-) N - Original Message - From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: TDBLookUpComboBox

2003-08-19 Thread Neven MacEwan
John Think about how this will work, when do you want to add and when is it simply a lookup failure?, I'd tend to add a button with a '+' to the right of the lu combo, which then added an entry HTH Neven - Original Message - From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list

[DUG]: PaintTo and PopupMenus

2003-08-18 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi all I'm doing a ownerdraw popup menuitem which paints a 'super component' (ie a panel with buttons and combo's) which when you select it displays the component all was going well until I did the ownerdraw I thought I could procedure TmwkDBGridPopupMenu.DrawGridEdit(Sender: TObject;

[DUG]: Trying to be tricky

2003-08-17 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi all I'm doing a little popup editor which I launch over a dbgrid from the popup menu I wanted a 'preview' function, so I added an owner draw menu Item and sized it the same as the editor panel, Now I've come unstuck, how do I get my panel to draw itself in the OnDrawItem of the MenuItem and

Re: [DUG]: Best methods for representing a 3 dimensional array

2003-08-06 Thread Neven MacEwan
Dave First thing, what you describe is not an array it is a tree There are multiple ways to approach this and there are other factors to consider 1/ Persistence, do you need to persist this structure 2/ Size, Does it have to be an optimal solution or are we talking 100's not 1,000,000 of

Re: [DUG]: joining in update query

2003-08-05 Thread Neven MacEwan
Ross I'm sorry but that is a bit of unmitigated garbage This is where SQL doesn't work and where the old fashioned non-client/server way of coding file access will work best. I'm not familiar with Interbase but I presume you can access records manually based on seeding a specific index and

Re: [DUG]: Hex ver Asci

2003-08-03 Thread Neven MacEwan
:-) Should we all chip in and send Alistair a Coffee? N - Original Message - From: Jeremy North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Hex ver Asci LOL. Use '%20' JED [EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: Previewing mouse events in a panel

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
? If so when you changed the cursor of the Panel why not loop through each of the Panel's control and change their cursor property the same as the Panel? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 2:26 p.m

Re: [DUG]: Previewing mouse events in a panel

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:49 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Previewing mouse events in a panel Neven MacEwan said: No what I'm doing is a panel which can layout the TWincontrols within it, but I'm using MouseMove to change the cursor to the relevant drag cursor, but as I hit a control

Re: [DUG]: Interbase SQL

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Tracey is JOBLINE.Job Date ENTRY.EntryDate Indexed? Also you want all 'all entries' and 'all Job Lines'? if so SELECT 'JobLine', JOBLINE.JobDate, JOBLINE.JobLineID, Job.MachineID FROM JOBLINE JOIN JOB ON JOBLINE.JobID = JOB.JobID WHERE JOBLINE.JobDate BETWEEN Date1 AND Date2 UNION

Re: [DUG]: Interbase SQL

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
T Well I'd index those fields as they are a primary selection criteria (This is an oft overlooked part of SQL DB Management because they will do virtually anything but the worst case as a linear search) also as your datasize increases the date columns will define your working 'window' All these

Re: [DUG]: Some Ideas?

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
J Have you looked at kbmMW? http://www.components4programmers.com/products/kbmmw/index.htm N - Original Message - From: vss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: [DUG]: Some Ideas? Hi All. We have

Re: [DUG]: Interbase SQL

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
SQL ok, I was fibbing a little... i had an index on jobline but none on entry... Fixed that now (winking at the original developer) yes i will want these records grouped by machine. - Original Message - From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi

Re: [DUG]: Interbase SQL

2003-07-30 Thread Neven MacEwan
Message - From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Interbase SQL Tracey I'm not a IB expert but what you want can be got by (also your most you could probably do with adding

[DUG]: Previewing mouse events in a panel

2003-07-29 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hi I'm trying to change the cursor in a TPanel but when its over a certain control (a TButton etc) but the mouse move seems to be eaten be the button, Is there a simple solution (I'd rather not have to do a mouse move in the child control) Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E. EE Ph 649 621 0001

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