RE: [DUG]: The Comiler Itself

2000-07-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
) it behoves one to use functions in the Windows unit instead of similar functions that you have to link in a whole lot of code to use :) snip Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/web

RE: [DUG]: Hot Site

2000-07-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
We have an "open" list these days which means anyone can spam it. Not sure whether the guys are working on a solution at the moment. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Powell Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 08:13 To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: Default Project - D5

2000-07-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
In D3 it's done with the Autosave options and these options are available in D5 and work the same way. Specifically the autosave desktop setting when checked causes this to happen. If you uncheck this D always creates a new project when you startup instead. The location of different options

RE: [DUG]: Shell Folder names

2000-07-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation New - Windows 95] WINSHELLAPI HRESULT WINAPI SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(; HWND hwndOwner, int nFolder, LPITEMIDLIST * ppidl ); Retrieves the location of a special folder. Parameters hwndOwner Handle of the owner window that the client should

RE: [DUG]: How do I get new forms to not default to auto-create

2000-07-05 Thread Patrick Dunford
snip As an aside - I heard someone mention once that the Delphi IDE accepts some command line parameters and that once of the undocumented parameters stops the loading of of a project (last project or New project) when the IDE is started Does anyone know the parameter or documentation

RE: [DUG]: How do I get new forms to not default to auto-create

2000-07-05 Thread Patrick Dunford
If you turn off one of the autosaves it always opens a blank project. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Scott-Boddendijk Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2000 16:25 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: How do I get

RE: [DUG]: HTML Help API question...

2000-07-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
JGSoft have done a HTML help API unit which is available from their website. You may wish to take a look at the page I did at http://www.geocities.com/pjrdunford/delphi/htmlhelp/ which provides a link to that unit and also details how to map Topic IDs in your HTMLHelp project. -Original

[DUG]: Question

2000-06-29 Thread Patrick Dunford
Let's say I need to see the last 1024 characters in a text file. Would I use a file stream to access it? How? Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/web

RE: [DUG]: RAS Connection stats

2000-06-29 Thread Patrick Dunford
Possibly you use the performance monitoring APIs to do it. When you run System Monitor in 95 then you can view data about TCP/IP connections. That's the perfstats stuff, and it's different in Win9x from WinNT. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [DUG]: Question

2000-06-29 Thread Patrick Dunford
? Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://www.trainweb.org/enzedrail/web/ -- - New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

[DUG]: D5.0 IDE irritation

2000-06-25 Thread patrick . dunford
When I am working in the code editor, Delphi decides to help me by opening a new window with the suffix ":2", ":3" and so on, randomly. Has this issue been rectified by the update patch - I don't think this patch has been applied at this site yet.

Re: [DUG]: D5.0 IDE irritation

2000-06-25 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Bevan Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Patrick, When I am working in the code editor, Delphi decides to help me by opening a new window with the suffix ":2", ":3" and so on, randomly. Has this issue been rectified by the update patch - I don't think this patch has been

RE: [DUG]: D5.0 IDE irritation

2000-06-25 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Max Nilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Patrick Dunford asked: When I am working in the code editor, Delphi decides to help me by opening a new window with the suffix ":2", ":3" and so on, randomly. We had this happen on only one machine, and it was caused by a

[DUG]: Microsoft Outlook Viruses - patch available (was Re: Life Stages)

2000-06-22 Thread Patrick Dunford
I have Outlook set up to reject messages over 10K. It rejected the messages from Max Renshaw Fox on Interbase and DUG lists because they are 54K in length. Could I respectfully ask the administrators of this list to set the server to strip off all incoming attachments as they are not needed on

Re: [DUG]: Num Lock Flash

2000-06-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Jeremy Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all. I was wondering if anyone has seen any code that will make the num lock light flash on a keyboard ? the num lock light is controlled by the value of a byte in the DOS low memory area. I remember some code written in assembly language, where

RE: [DUG]: QuickReport 3 - printing to dot matrix

2000-06-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting James Sugrue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had a similar problem with QR. I upgraded a project from D3 to D4 and got similar problems to your one. There is a patch on the website (Can't remember the site off hand) that fixed your problem, but I kept getting random AV's so in the end we

RE: [DUG]: Life stages text

2000-06-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Doris Yuan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TimeSheet_template.xls Eh? is this a mutation of this horrible virus? --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

Re: [DUG]: Num Lock Flash

2000-06-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Glen Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GetKeyboardState( ksOriginal ); Ah well you learn something new every day ! :) --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

RE: [DUG]: QuickReport 3 - printing to dot matrix

2000-06-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting James Sugrue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey thanks for that. I didn't realise they had a QR2 version for D4. I realised that 3.0.5 was the shipping version in D5, I find that D4 is quite unstable in certain situations, compared to D3 and was hoping that D5 might change this. What is D5

RE: [DUG]: There is not enough free memory to run problem

2000-06-20 Thread Patrick Dunford
What happens if you run the Resource Meter, what readings are you getting off that? All 16 bit Windows have resource limitations, NT doesn't. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phil Dewar Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 10:24 To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: There is not enough free memory to run problem

2000-06-20 Thread Patrick Dunford
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Dunford Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 10:31 a.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: There is not enough free memory to run problem What happens if you run the Resource Meter, what readings are you getting off that? All 16 bit Wi

Re: [DUG]: Talking to Excel.

2000-06-18 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Michael Switzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for your reply Patrick, But if I read your code rightly, you've got methods for reading, writing and clearing an Excel cell. What I am looking for is a way to return a *Range Object* from the cells that have been written into ... My

RE: [DUG]: Talking to Excel.

2000-06-17 Thread Patrick Dunford
I did some work with this for a customer several years ago and they are still using that product. My recollection is of having problems similar to what you describe. (See below) - note I am using Delphi 3, it didn't come with TExcelReport -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [DUG]: Strange compiler error

2000-06-15 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sugrue Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 14:14 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Strange compiler error Works fine for me. BTW You do realise you can have if

RE: [DUG]: Strange compiler error

2000-06-15 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cooke, Andrew Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 14:18 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Strange compiler error Do you have BDE in your uses clause? This used to cause this.

Re: [DUG]: Creating a DSN at runtime

2000-06-15 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Peter G Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know of a way to create a system DSN in code? There is an ODBC SDK. Documentation is on MSDN. I don't know any more than that. --- New Zealand Delphi Users group

[DUG]: Strange compiler error

2000-06-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
Abort" and the message disappears. The Abort procedure is properly linked in from SysUtils, I can see no reason why it would be taken to be an expression of type Integer. There are no redeclarations of Abort anywhere in the application. Using D3.02 ======== Patri

Re: [DUG]: Changing main form at run-time

2000-06-12 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Alex Kouznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That customized UI part of the application takes about 1-2% of all the code. It is truly just a UI and nothing else. Redistributing 98% of duplicated code per each interface is a bit of an overehead. I'd opt for it if Delphi alowed packaging

Re: [DUG]: Changing main form at run-time

2000-06-11 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Alex Kouznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Say at start up user gets prompted : "Girl,Boy or Old man ?' , then correct UI form implementation is being chosen, created and shown. Main form is not needed any longer. At the risk of sounding simple, the easiest way of implementing this

Re: [DUG]: Extracting HTML source

2000-06-08 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Tony Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI all, has anyone done any thing along the lines of having a url and retrieving the source from that url. I have a legacy CGI application into a mainframe and would basically like to call it and return the result to a stringlist or something

Re: [DUG]: Paradox repair

2000-06-08 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi My users have had the occaisional problem with Paradox table and or index corruption - normally caused by a power outage or someone running a backup with the databse open. In the past I have been able to fix things most of the time by deleting

RE: [DUG]: MS PowerPoint

2000-06-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
PowerPoint has an Automation interface - so it appears the answer is yes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myles Penlington Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2000 17:04 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: MS PowerPoint

Re: [DUG]: I can not use Enterprise Manaager to view table

2000-06-06 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: warning: i4free are spammers, they probably harvest e-mail addresses from replies. --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

Re: [DUG]: Acrobat and PDR Writer

2000-06-05 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Aaron Scott-Boddendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: anip The only thing is that each time the program goes to write to the file it calls the 'Save Dialog' box to to confirm the name of the file. The report can create a number of different named files but I do not want it to call the 'Save

RE: [DUG]: Playing a blob wav sound

2000-05-19 Thread Patrick Dunford
There is a field type called TBlobField. If you can get the data into that (using AsBlob I think) then it has a SaveToFile method so you can save it into the Temp directory and pass the filename to sndPlay - maybe... Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ

Re: [DUG]: altering Create() parameters

2000-05-18 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Luke Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to override the constructor of a form to include an extra parameter but I get "Declaration ... differs from previous declaration" eg: public constructor Create(AOwner: TComponent; RootFolder: String); override; ... constructor

RE: [DUG]: Inconsistency between compiled and IDE Project

2000-05-18 Thread Patrick Dunford
Maybe because it isn't installed when you reinstall Delphi 3. D3 installs whatever version was current when it shipped, which is an older version. Personally I am surprised that anyone still uses QR - I used to be a fan of the product, but the more I use it the less I like it. When it came to

RE: [DUG]: Stealth

2000-05-18 Thread Patrick Dunford
Message rejected by system Reason: Body of message started with the word 'Set', probably destined for 'listserver@'. Error occured handling mailing list account. Error processing special format. snip Set Application.ShowMainForm to false in the project file before Application.Run. Also

RE: [DUG]: Delphi demo with Screen Cam

2000-05-14 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Grant Black [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MS also bundle a screen-cam type program with Office (value added tools bit) - had a quick look at it but have not used it sorry. -Original Message- From: Steven Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 15 May 2000 08:39 To: Multiple

Re: [DUG]: Delphi demo with Screen Cam

2000-05-14 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Steven Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have just set out to produce a demo of a Delphi app using Screen Cam = that comes with Lotus Smart Suite 97. However we have discovered that = the Demos that it produces do not work with NT or Win 2000. We don't want to supply a fully installed

RE: [DUG]: Z value crook

2000-05-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
. Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb/ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http

Re: [DUG]: BDE Files

2000-05-09 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Jeremy Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI all. we are debating wether to write a new install in installshield or to just write our own. No One here knows how to do the scripting in installshield, so its a case of it taking just as much time to do bot. But has anyone seen a list of

[DUG]: Limit on installed components (D3 Std)

2000-05-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
using Regedit. This has occurred twice in the last week. I had to remove another package so that the new component could be installed. This particular component has been installed in the past when there were fewer other components in place. Patrick Dunford

Re: [DUG]: Blank entries in task bar

2000-05-08 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am developing an application that leaves a remnant of itself in the task bar once it terminates. On the task bar, a task panel exists, but it is blank. Each time I run the app it creates another. If I click on them, they just disappear. This is the case

[DUG]: Package corruption

2000-05-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
reference to the package and now everthing is fine. All I have to do is to re-create that package. The question is can the packages get corrupted somehow and is there a simpler way of fixing it? Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http

Re: [DUG]: Advanced Delphi course

2000-04-30 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Antony Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does anyone know of any good Delphi courses? We are looking for an advanced and/or good Delphi practices / programming techniques type of course. Christchurch Polytech :)

Re: RE:[DUG]: Database component

2000-04-26 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Colin R Dillicar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 5:49 PM Subject: RE:[DUG]: Database component Patrick. You say " Product SKUs make it clear that

RE: [DUG]: R Form caption colour

2000-04-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rohit Gupta Sent: Friday, 14 April 2000 13:01 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: R Form caption colour Steven, its a pageful of code. You need to trap WMNCPaint message

RE: [DUG]: R Form caption colour

2000-04-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rohit Gupta Sent: Friday, 14 April 2000 13:01 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: R Form caption colour Steven, its a pageful of code. You need to trap WMNCPaint message

RE: [DUG]: Component Icons (again) [Long]

2000-04-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max Nilson Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2000 12:23 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Component Icons (again) [Long] snip Option 1: Check the ComCtl32.DLL version. Versions

Re: [DUG]: Lotus

2000-04-06 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting John Christenhusz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, How can I import a Lotus spreadsheet file into a Paradox table? If you are doing this manually you could import it into Excel, save as dBase (DBF) and then use Database Desktop to save the DBF to a DB

RE: [DUG]: Crashing Windows Explorer when starting delphi app from IDE

2000-04-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
When you press F9, the compiler will update a number of files in the application directory.When the files in a directory are changed, Explorer updates the window (At a guess, Windows calls ShChangeNotify or similar). I would recommend you change to a different directory or close the Explorer

RE: [DUG]: Component Palette Icons

2000-03-27 Thread Patrick Dunford
Try looking in the DSK file for your project. I had this happen the other day with the Object Inspector, which turned up below the taskbar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Moises Lopez Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2000 08:54 To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: AVI with tlist create and Delphi 5

2000-03-23 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Neil Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh man I must have this jetlag real bad, please ignore this dumb (stupid) obvious blatant programmer error. Good question though. What is the difference between t1.create and t1 := myclassname.Create ?

Re: [DUG]: Delphi Long file names

2000-03-22 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I need to convert short file names with path to long file names. Can you let me know how do I do that. Call the GetFullPathName function in the Win32 SDK. Check for this function in Delphi's Windows unit. Obviously this function only works on volumes that

RE: [DUG]: SDI Child Window minimized

2000-03-22 Thread Patrick Dunford
When your app receives focus the Application.OnActivate event is fired. You should be able to get the child form to maximise automatically using this event ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Kouznetsov Sent: Friday, 24 March 2000

Re: [DUG]: shelling programs in sequence...

2000-03-21 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Matthew Comb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Phil there is a component on Delphi Super Page called appexec. Actually I have just found it here if you want me to send it through to you? It has a wait property that will enable you to run the 3rd prog after the second one finishes. I use a

[DUG]: List Archive

2000-03-21 Thread patrick . dunford
Could information about this be added to the FAQ at www.delphi.org.nz please --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

RE: [DUG]: Missing Forms ?

2000-03-20 Thread Patrick Dunford
Have you changed the project source code in any way. The statements between the Begin and End are used by Delphi in the project options. E.g. begin Application.Initialize; Application.Title := 'Adserve Reports'; Application.CreateForm(TDataMod, DataMod);

RE: [DUG]: Embedded Form

2000-03-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kerry Sainsbury Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2000 09:55 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Embedded Form As anyone used Embedded Forms in D5 yet ? Do you mean Frames?

Re: [DUG]: Menu Shortcut Keys

2000-03-13 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you solve this ? I dont have such problems, I use MDI extensively. What does happen is that some keys are reserved, locked inside win-apis. And the other bug is that a disabled menu item still usurps the key assigned to it. Ruddy brilliant

RE: Recall: [DUG]: Contract Programmer wanted

2000-03-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
Too slow :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oscar Martin Sent: Friday, 10 March 2000 15:33 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Recall: [DUG]: Contract Programmer wanted Oscar Martin would like to recall the message,

RE: Recall: [DUG]: Contract Programmer wanted

2000-03-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oscar Martin Sent: Friday, 10 March 2000 15:47 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: Recall: [DUG]: Contract Programmer wanted Yeah :) Bugger. That'll teach me not to belive MS

RE: [DUG]: Handling navigational keys in String grid while editing

2000-03-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Kouznetsov Sent: Friday, 10 March 2000 11:51 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Handling navigational keys in String grid while editing Hi When editing a cell in a

[DUG]: FOR syntax (D4+)

2000-03-07 Thread Patrick Dunford
Is the following syntax legal in D4 and above. The D3 compiler refuses to compile it. for (i := 0 to Pred(RegionList.Items.Count)) do ' := found but ) expected Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com

RE: [DUG]: Memo limitation

2000-03-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
IIRC the limitation only applies to Windows 95. There are various similar limits to Win95 that do not apply in NT. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alistair George Sent: Friday, 3 March 2000 12:02 To: Multiple recipients of list

[DUG]: Freeing Handles

2000-03-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
Do you need to free a handle that has been used with FileOpen and FileClose? Some other types of handles need a call to release their resources, IIRC. Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb

[DUG]: Captions and Glyphs on TSPeedButtons

2000-03-01 Thread patrick . dunford
I have a strange thing happening with Speedbutton captions and glyphs on some computers in an application I have written. No problems on my computer. 1. A 16 colour glyph is displayed sometimes in black and 2. Black text on a grey button sometimes greys out (becomes grey and looks disabled,

Re: [DUG]: AVI - 3

2000-02-27 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting John Christenhusz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Darren, No, unfortunately I have not found any solution for this problem yet. I'll let you know if I have. For the sake of any other interested readers, this was my question: I run an AVI, using TMediaPlayer having Display assigned to

Re: [DUG]: F12

2000-02-27 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Alex Kouznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi In Delphi 5.0 pressing F12 while running an application (from within Delphi) stops application and jumps back to Delphi with CPU window open. Is there any setting I can change F12 to something else ? Certain keystrokes are reserved within the

RE: [DUG]: ntdll.dll ... again

2000-02-25 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Dunford Sent: Friday, 25 February 2000 20:26 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: ntdll.dll ... again Arrghh! Is it just me or can no-one else read these messages

RE: [DUG]: Function key assignments in Delphi

2000-02-25 Thread Patrick Dunford
Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb/ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http

Re: [DUG]: Freeware SHG (Segmented Hyper Graphics) Editor??

2000-02-24 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting "Donovan J. Edye" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: G'Day All, I am looking for a freeware SHG editor to create SHG's for help files? Anyone got any pointers other than M$'s shed.exe? The latest verions of that is circa Win3. There is a SHG editor in HelpScribble I think (not freeware). But

RE: [DUG]: ntdll.dll ... again

2000-02-24 Thread Patrick Dunford
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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]: TPrinterSetupDialog

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Dunford
You wouldn't happen to be using it with a Quickreport would you? Aside from that, these dialogs usually only change the settings for the calling application, not the Control Panel defaults. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew

RE: [DUG]: Time in a DB Grid

2000-02-17 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Jeremy Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: well I had tried that. But if I make the table active at designTime, the formating looks fine, BUT at run time it doesn't use the formating. ALSO, I make the header text centered, and this also doesn't get uses, i.e. they stay left aligned ! You

RE: [DUG]: Time in a DB Grid

2000-02-17 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Osborne Sent: Friday, 18 February 2000 17:38 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Time in a DB Grid Use the Fields Editor and then pick up the OnGetText event for the

RE: [DUG]: Pirateing

2000-02-16 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Alistair George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can read the HDD Volume Serial Number - see the function GetVolumeInformation for details. As far as I'm aware, this number will always change if you reformat a disk. I used to use this number for protecting software, but I discovered that

[DUG]: Nasty feature in HTML Help Workshop 1.21

2000-02-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
as though HHW had decided to chop a chunk out of it). ======== Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb/ --- New Zealand Delphi U

RE: [DUG]: DateTimePicker headscratcher

2000-02-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2000 22:43 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: DateTimePicker headscratcher snip I think it's more a 12/24 hour display option

RE: [DUG]: Streams

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alistair George Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2000 12:48 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Streams Yes JPEG is a lossy compression format - otherwise it would not be

RE: [DUG]: DateTimePicker headscratcher

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
The DateTimePicker formats a time as time of day, which answers the first part of your question - the format is controlled by the Control Panel settings. It is worth pointing out here that the maximum duration you can enter is 23:59:59 in one of these controls. As to the second problem it is

RE: [DUG]: Bagging VB....

2000-02-10 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting "Coulter, Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HAHAHAHAHA...its no WONDER I am ditiching my current VB job to go back to Delphi is it ?? I struggles with MOST of the things mentioned in that doc. every dayp.s. I HATE Vb... hahahaha...Yes...one of the best things about ADO is that NON

RE: [DUG]: Streams

2000-02-10 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alistair George Sent: Friday, 11 February 2000 17:58 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Streams Incidentally, whilst searching for the jpeg protocols, I found out that jpeg

RE: [DUG]: Turning DFM into text

2000-02-07 Thread Patrick Dunford
Use the command line converter, CONVERT.EXE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 09:08 To: Multiple recipients of list DELphi Subject: [DUG]: Turning DFM into text snip Catch - cant turn DFM

RE: [DUG]: Inprise/Borland is merging with Corel, and will be called Corel f rom now on...

2000-02-07 Thread Patrick Dunford
Are companies going for Linux because they can't compete with MS in Windows, does this mean all Borland Windows products are under threat? Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb/ -Original

RE: [DUG]: resources

2000-02-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
There is an SFX example that comes with TCompress - does that give you any pointers? I had a play with it, and it worked quite well. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven WildSent: Friday, 4 February 2000 13:31To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: resources

2000-02-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
have a look at LoadCompressedResource in the help file for TCompress, and the SELFEXTR.DPR and BMTEST.DPR sample projects. There also the SFX.DPR and MAKEEXE.DPR projects with TCompLHA (available even in the shareware version) that I have had a play with, for making self extracting EXEs.

RE: [DUG]: Setting Default Printer Tray

2000-02-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Howard Sent: Friday, 4 February 2000 14:40 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Setting Default Printer Tray Hi A site has an HP 2100 and my app is by default trying to

RE: [DUG]: Error Codes....

2000-02-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
In WINDOWS.PAS I would like to know if there us a way of getting the text without having to write my own error code translator -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donovan J. Edye Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2000 13:55 To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: Timage errors

2000-02-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
The only comment to make is that the video card driver failures are to do with DIB routines - I wonder if this is related? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alistair George Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2000 11:01 To: Multiple recipients

RE: [DUG]: Quick Report Preview

2000-02-01 Thread Patrick Dunford
This is my report viewer written in QR2 I can send you the source if you wish unit MainUnit; interface uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, qrprntr, StdCtrls, Buttons, ExtCtrls; type TForm1 = class(TForm) QRPreview1: TQRPreview; Panel1:

RE: [DUG]: Data aware controls [was: ADO access]

2000-01-31 Thread Patrick Dunford
:). Very brave statement - unlikely that your tables are past 2 normal form 3rd normal is fairly easy (I generally aim for that), who are you kidding? Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb

RE: [DUG]: Detecting if Outlook is installed

2000-01-31 Thread Patrick Dunford
Have you tried this topic in MSDN? There may be an OLE call you can try. I assume that is what you are using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mason, John Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2000 14:48 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi

RE: [DUG]: Kylix and other cough medicines

2000-01-31 Thread Patrick Dunford
) And then the Open Source Mozilla project came along. But seriously is Open Source the last refuge when you can't make money out of your product any more? And is that relevant now that Interbase has gone to Open Source? Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb

RE: [DUG]: Quick Report Preview

2000-01-28 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Howard Sent: Friday, 28 January 2000 20:39 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Quick Report Preview I have a simple app in which the user can click on a button to

RE: [DUG]: Quick Report Preview

2000-01-27 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Howard Sent: Friday, 28 January 2000 16:43 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Quick Report Preview Hi. A newbie (still!) question. I have a simple app in which the user

RE: [DUG]: Delete *.*

2000-01-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
... Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ EnzedRailWeb Sites http://patrick.dunford.com/enzedrailweb/ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

RE: [DUG]: Invalid pointer operation

2000-01-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Chuah Sent: Monday, 24 January 2000 09:11 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Invalid pointer operation if so can you then just pass PChar(S) to your function

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