Re: [DUG] FW: Web development

2011-06-06 Thread Phil Scadden
> Ditto Javascript which is perfectly valid but which doesn't work the way you > expect in browser X, Y, Z or perm any N from M. This a major reason to use clientside frameworks like jQuery, Ext etc. It centralises the browser dependency issues. You still have the big pain of wildly different

Re: [DUG] Disaster recovery - was API to Windows explorer

2011-05-12 Thread Phil Scadden
Our needs are rather specialised and doubt many companies would have same requirement (and thus the same expense involved...). However, one lesson I would say is that whatever the plan, then test it often. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please dest

Re: [DUG] XML data to image problem

2011-04-20 Thread Phil Scadden
Yup. That is jpeg. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.o

Re: [DUG] XML data to image problem

2011-04-20 Thread Phil Scadden
marker byte, probably E something. If its PNG, then it will start 89(hex). And so forth. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If re

Re: [DUG] : using MAP files properly

2011-01-24 Thread Phil Scadden
> We've given up reading map files since we found ExOnHook from Per Larsen > (Turbo Power ). I use madExcept for same thing. Free for non-commericial use. 129euro commercial and with a lot of very nice features for web or email reporting of crash dumps. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Sc

Re: [DUG] Reading binary data as date/time from registry

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Scadden
y bad way to go.) -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not co

Re: [DUG] Reading binary data as date/time from registry

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Scadden
ot;standard". It is certainly the format in Excel too. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please de

Re: [DUG] Reading binary data as date/time from registry

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Scadden
> It's not an access violation. I can read the 8 bytes when I use an > 8-byte array just fine. > Well if that was cast as double, then it certainly wont be zero which is what your date implies, (but is it NAN??). Just for interest, what IS the value as a double? -- Phil S

Re: [DUG] Reading binary data as date/time from registry

2010-05-12 Thread Phil Scadden
> When I use TRegistry.ReadDateTime on those entries, I get 30/12/1899. > Which means its reading the input as zero. Try reading the Tregistry into double and casting as datetime. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zeal

Re: [DUG] Need help in format function

2010-03-03 Thread Phil Scadden
I think it easier to do format( '%.2f', [trunc(value*100)/100]); Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Gr

Re: [DUG] OT : GoogleWave invites

2010-01-27 Thread Phil Scadden
Actually Steve, where did you get the 1001HA for $380? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

2010-01-27 Thread Phil Scadden
>For $380.00 I just purchased a eeePC 1001HA (http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=O2gIMUVTCKmZUZt5). With you on this one. Useful enough to be only laptop needed when have big desktop as well -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dune

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

2010-01-27 Thread Phil Scadden
i-tasking is such a biggie? I don't miss > that on the iPhone and I will be using it as a larger version of an iPod > Touch really. If I need multi-tasking I use my laptop. > So you walk around with iphone, ipad and a laptop? Hmm. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Scien

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

2010-01-27 Thread Phil Scadden
mpared a tablet screen to an E-Ink screen for reading a book? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please de

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

2010-01-14 Thread Phil Scadden
s are you using learning? > Java, C#, Python -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediatel

Re: [DUG] Minimising a form and Application

2009-12-06 Thread Phil Scadden
> If it is a modal form this pretty much disables the application > unless the user realises this is what they have done. > I would never allow a minimize button on a modal form. That way problem doesnt arise. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Pr

[DUG] Detecting if a server is present.

2009-11-23 Thread Phil Scadden
settings around both client and server are pretty extreme. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy

[DUG] component for callout/annotation ?

2009-11-04 Thread Phil Scadden
similar? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents

[DUG] Crash but not stackdump

2009-10-19 Thread Phil Scadden
to track or better still protect against such a crash? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately

Re: [DUG] Cross platform musings

2009-10-15 Thread Phil Scadden
More on cross-platform. Developing for the plethora of devices out there might be attractive, but the other area booming is the server. More and more computing is moving there. Now is my area so odd for NOT using windows in the server environment? In our myriad of servers, I think we have one o

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

2009-09-16 Thread Phil Scadden
I would agree that it is java done right. It has very rich component set. Data binding is interesting and the object inspector.. The big pain of course is .net. Not using for web in any way. (We are java, jsp, JS for web apps). JS, especially ajax is really coming of age. Notice: This email an

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Scadden
The big thing with Delphi was that was just about as powerful as C++ but lot easier to use and the IDE was brilliant compared to anything else out there when it came out. I still have VS 1998 (for Fortran) as a comparison to "state of the art" then. Trouble is MS got Borland's man and now VS is

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Scadden
"Inprise" and they have never be financially strong enough since to really pick it up. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidentia

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Scadden
Delphi 2007 IIRC). If you want to do .NET, > buy Visual Studio. > That for that. If I upgrade Rad studio, I'll revert to Delphi only. I prefer VS for C++ and C# anyway. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealan

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Scadden
The "upgrades" which brought significantly reduced stability and useless help systems have sort of reduced my appetite for upgrades. I was pleased to note that they did provide I think 12 patches for 2006 but then it was suddenly - not interested in bug fix, buy the next version. I am not as fo

Re: [DUG] Program screen video capture

2009-08-23 Thread Phil Scadden
price (free). http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately noti

Re: [DUG] Embarcadero article

2009-06-16 Thread Phil Scadden
t keeps the Fortran going too). -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do

Re: [DUG] Embarcadero article

2009-06-16 Thread Phil Scadden
nt mind in the language - data bound objects, decent object inspector and the dynamic interface thingies. Of course, if you are doing 64 bit, would MPI support be too much to ask as well? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph

Re: [DUG] D2006 actiing up - unable to find "ypelink:" or unable to fine "ilelink..."

2009-05-10 Thread Phil Scadden
Restarting IDE had no effect. Still completely stuffed links. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group

[DUG] D2006 actiing up - unable to find "ypelink:" or unable to fine "ilelink..."

2009-05-10 Thread Phil Scadden
People seen this. Tool tip of a variable, should be able click on the hyperlink to go to the declaration but instead getting the 'unable to find "ypelink sysutils.pas"' or ' unable to "ilelink:myfile.pas"' WTF?? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS

Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues

2009-04-16 Thread Phil Scadden
rom one side to another. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do

Re: [DUG] Future of us Delphi programmer in New Zealand?

2009-04-08 Thread Phil Scadden
bindings for MPI in various languages (but not delphi that I am aware of), VS is about the only thing that will let you debug MPI with any sort of comfort. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 4

Re: [DUG] Future of us Delphi programmer in New Zealand?

2009-04-08 Thread Phil Scadden
Interesting question. It used to be about getting speed of C++ with ease of use of VB. These days anything with need for speed is C++. Delphi lost it in the Inprise debacle. Nothing else keeps up with VS. For RAD programming. C++ is still total pain. C# has a LOT to recommend it. Love the bound

Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

2009-03-30 Thread Phil Scadden
> ok, here we go then... who had a a ZX81 then eh?? better stil > who had a ZX81 with a 16kb expansion pack ?? (apart from me) > Nah, my tape-drive only TRS-80 was way cooler. :-) -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dun

Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

2009-03-30 Thread Phil Scadden
ex business partner Lawrence Wilkinson as to his > story with an IBM 360 see here > Great story. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are con

Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

2009-03-30 Thread Phil Scadden
> this is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch "when I were a > lad we were lucky to have computa, and we lived in a sho box on middle > road and":-) Of course - that what the reference to Yorkshire was about. ("4 Yorkshiremen sketch") -- P

Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

2009-03-30 Thread Phil Scadden
tarted with PORTRAN cards on IBM via local bank, graduated to the Burroughs at Uni, and then oh joy, the vax. In fact still have a vax (well alpha 2000) in my office. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fa

Re: [DUG] Weather Stations

2009-03-25 Thread Phil Scadden
> May I ask why need a weather station for pc? I don't understand it. Can > someone explain to me? > so you can download the reading and store them. Bore the pants off everybody by comparing this year to last year, claiming trends. Being a weather bore is so much fun. --

Re: [DUG] Weather Stations

2009-03-24 Thread Phil Scadden
> They have a good deal on a wireless weather station of offtheback today > > http://offtheback.co.nz > Like most of them though - no PC interface that I can see. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3

Re: [DUG] Question for those not owners of D2009

2009-03-10 Thread Phil Scadden
Whoops, I win the prize for utter failure to follow instructions and blindly emailing without looking at "To". My apologies to the list. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents.

Re: [DUG] Question for those not owners of D2009

2009-03-10 Thread Phil Scadden
Have not yet upgraded. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delp

Re: [DUG] Translations

2009-02-16 Thread Phil Scadden
g table just to get it. A good outcome for all. (and a warning to anyone doing right-to-left languages that windows bugs can be a right pain here). -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Not

Re: [DUG] Animated progress "Throbber"

2009-02-10 Thread Phil Scadden
TAnimatedGif - turn it on and off. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately

Re: [DUG] Shellexecute issues in Delphi - call hangs until the program it starts finishes.

2008-12-11 Thread Phil Scadden
Thanks guys but simply a matter of leaping to conclusions - I didnt see results of next code line so assumed it was shellexecute. Closer examination showed that it was a case of mutex conflict. Rule of debugging - never jump to conclusions. Oh well, I'll learn it one day. Notice: This email and

[DUG] Shellexecute issues in Delphi - call hangs until the program it starts finishes.

2008-12-11 Thread Phil Scadden
program. Obviously shellexecute is waiting for something??? What is program1 failing to do?? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in e

Re: [DUG] Lost media - what are the options?

2008-12-09 Thread Phil Scadden
nfull. ISO isnt available for D2006 unfortunately (though a 4GB download would have IT screaming - havent got KAREN yet.) Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any

[DUG] Lost media - what are the options?

2008-12-09 Thread Phil Scadden
havent really got on top of the mess since so could be around, but no sign in the more obvious places. What are my options here? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any

Re: [DUG] Delphi programs and Vista

2008-09-17 Thread Phil Scadden
area at all I think), etc etc. There big list when Vista came out. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in erro

Re: [DUG] D2009

2008-08-24 Thread Phil Scadden
I for one would happy with more bug fixes and less new features. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Gro

Re: [DUG] CPU memory usage

2008-08-18 Thread Phil Scadden
in a context where another process can do this? As far as I know you cannot change priority through the SCM functions. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and a

Re: [DUG] OO Programming

2008-07-29 Thread Phil Scadden
g it out of Delphi or making a client/server split, but I find it hard to beat Delphi for the prototyping. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments ar

Re: [DUG] OO Programming

2008-07-29 Thread Phil Scadden
> RAD is a methodology, OOP is a programming style. > > Thanks Steve, I was wondering too. I think the OP has something specific in mind. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 523

Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-24 Thread Phil Scadden
d deploy to linux). I also have VS 98 for Fortran - you can see the imprint of Delphi all over the VS versions from 2003 onward and lots of C# feels very much more like Delphi than C++. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Scadden
ows PC platform? > > Web apps are fact of life despite being horribly painful to write and use. However, none of this happening on windows platform so delphi not even an issue. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph

[DUG] Your favourite Object inspector component?

2008-06-02 Thread Phil Scadden
Want a run time object inspector (with control over what properties are displayed etc - something like the native C# would be nice). Anyone got a favourite? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice

Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-11 Thread Phil Scadden
oject for C++ in D2006 is mission. LIB and OBJ files especially. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error pleas

Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-11 Thread Phil Scadden
e. Got a pointer. Process of elimination? Nah, it aint going to happen. The nuisance value isnt high enough for that kind of time investment. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This

Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-08 Thread Phil Scadden
hat other sin does a component commit that results in this behaviour. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error

Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-08 Thread Phil Scadden
3rd party components, its diabolical to figure out which ones and then how do you know is the bug causing the issue anyway? I thought it might be memory leaks but with exception of Indy, (which says leak is okay), applications come up clean. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumb

Re: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-08 Thread Phil Scadden
t;, "Application error" boxes when I exit On other hand, debugging aids, organisation of components, code insight and many other nice IDE features keep me in 2006 rather than D7. And I keep hoping for Unicode. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Ba

Re: [DUG] So Embacadero has purchased CodeGear....

2008-05-08 Thread Phil Scadden
the audience. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose

Re: [DUG] So Embacadero has purchased CodeGear....

2008-05-07 Thread Phil Scadden
about it once I know more! So is there a Delphi community in Dunedin at all, or am I it?? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential.

[DUG] Annoying Access violation in D2006 IDE

2007-12-10 Thread Phil Scadden
always goes, so its annoyance rather than show stopper. Happens regardless of project as far as I can see. Anyone else see this? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and

Re: [DUG] Friday giveaway - Form Effects

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Scadden
Yes! I am using JVCL tray unit and it is certainly not as cool as other systems. Thanks -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If

Re: [DUG] Expression Parser/Evaluator

2007-10-24 Thread Phil Scadden
looks somewhat quaint today though. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin

[DUG] Parser/Evaluator

2007-10-24 Thread Phil Scadden
, then just evaluating with new data in the allocated variables. There are a no. of components round that do this (jcl has one) but they lack conditionals. Maybe I do need to modernise formulabuilder. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New

Re: [DUG] Expression Parser/Evaluator

2007-10-23 Thread Phil Scadden
multiline expressions like pasScript. For my kind of application, it has been perfect. It is also seriously dated and I have been too lazy to modernize the code. A good replacement would be nice. -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin

Re: [DUG] Non English software

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Scadden
n and out. GUI had too many non-unicode controls to worry with them. Mega pain. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi ma

Re: [DUG] Non English software

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Scadden
unicode for all text data passed around by the application (eg going into database or passed to other programs) but normal tools for GUI components. Unicode is at less at mercy of what bizarre setting a user may have done for charset. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private

Re: [DUG] Salaries in NZ?

2007-09-13 Thread Phil Scadden
the side effects but... -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 begin:vcard fn:Phil Scadden n:Scadden;Phil org:GNS Science Ltd;Hydrocarbon Section adr:Private Bag 1930;;764 Cumberland st;Dunedin;;9010;N

Re: [DUG] Anyone else installed Delphi Update 3 yet?

2007-09-12 Thread Phil Scadden
Alister Christie wrote: I've just installed Update 3 with out problems and it seems to run, anyone else taken the plunge? For which version of Delphi? I am on D2006 and in no hurry to make the plunge to 2007 but interested in patches. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberla

Re: [DUG] Application - Language translation

2007-08-26 Thread Phil Scadden
these sorts of hassles. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi ma

RE: [DUG] D2007 Shutdown

2007-07-31 Thread Phil Scadden
ing. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mail

Re: [DUG] D2007 Shutdown

2007-07-31 Thread Phil Scadden
I havent gone for D2007 yet as D2006 working okay for me. However the no. one annoyance with D2006 is the great succession of crash messages when you close, and the slow startup. Are these actually fixed in D2007? -- Phil Scadden, GNS

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

2007-07-29 Thread Phil Scadden
> Hook into windows api i.e. TextOut TextOut writes it. I want this data from another application not even written by me. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +6

[DUG] Pulling status bar text off another application

2007-07-29 Thread Phil Scadden
A webapp running in IE put text in the status bar that I would dearly like to snaffle into another running application. Statusbar I think is a wincontrol so could be possible. Anyone with bright ideas on discovering it? -- Phil Scadden, GNS

[DUG] System tray program function when screensaver on.

2007-07-04 Thread Phil Scadden
the machine has dropped into screensaver mode, the flicker state isnt triggered despite the server sending a message in that period. Could the screensaver be interfering with TCP communication? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St

[DUG] Breakpoint in initialization?

2007-07-02 Thread Phil Scadden
initialization??? Any bright ideas? -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi

Re: [DUG] Limit Delphi 2007 help to "delphi" only

2007-06-28 Thread Phil Scadden
i" AND "DocSet"="bds_Win32" ------ Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Gro

[DUG] Delphi - failing to minimise - think I might have the magic bit

2007-06-27 Thread Phil Scadden
at design, then somewhere it is set visible, but after all form creation. I will try moving the formshow code into another thread. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663

RE: [DUG] Problem with minimize button.

2007-06-26 Thread Phil Scadden
crewy - the app is getting pretty large. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Gro

Re: [DUG] Problem with minimize button.

2007-06-26 Thread Phil Scadden
This is being an issue because it reference data in the not yet created form. Behaviour at moment is well and truly different to my perceptions on how Delphi runs. ------ Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New

Re: [DUG] Problem with minimize button.

2007-06-26 Thread Phil Scadden
he shortcut this way. It remains curious as to why this happens. I must see if other Delphi apps have sample problem. ---------- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663

Re: [DUG] Problem with minimize button.

2007-06-26 Thread Phil Scadden
end; > inherited; > end; Nope. Minimise called but the window doesn't minimize. Take about frustrating. ---------- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin,

Re: [DUG] Problem with minimize button.

2007-06-26 Thread Phil Scadden
status bar does change to Minimise called BUT the application still does not minimize on that PC. Very strange. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64

[DUG] Problem with minimize button.

2007-06-25 Thread Phil Scadden
. -- Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz

RE: [DUG] Long running apps & weirdness

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Scadden
> What about using process explorer then from SysInternals (now MS)? > I would recommend this. A similar problem on long running app turned out to be a resource leak. Process Explorer enabled me to nail it fairly quickly. -- Phil S

RE: [DUG] Vista Services

2007-04-17 Thread Phil Scadden
ue (also affects XP)? ------ Phil Scadden, GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailin

RE: [DUG]: Copy protection/program registration

2003-11-11 Thread Phil Scadden
at you want them to spend of plenty of time trying to hack it :-) (ie its utterly bogus or unsets something important if bypassed). -- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedi

RE: [DUG]: [DUG-OFF-TOPIC]: Any Kylix programmer?

2003-11-03 Thread Phil Scadden
zi of sun at any time, any position) into Delphi. We are contemplating a building project as well and have been wondering about active solar management too. ------ Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Pr

Re: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-08 Thread Phil Scadden
graphics app. Apps would do some file io and a lot of computation. ------ Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +6

RE: RE: RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-08 Thread Phil Scadden
lished? -- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PRO

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-08 Thread Phil Scadden
ation speeds. We have quite a lot of java apps and they are all dogs. You couldnt contemplate performance computing on that platform. ---------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, Ne

Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-08 Thread Phil Scadden
g to wait for the author to release a > platform-specific variant. The Linux win would be compiling those application into native IA-64 if the MS alternative is going be .NET VM. I am aware that IA64 compiler technology is a whole new game but fairly concerned that Borland isnt even starting. -

RE: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Phil Scadden
e equally frightfully unix shells. Trouble is that while noone owns unix, there is no easy way to fix it. sigh. ------ Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Phil Scadden
ications compiled to CLR. ---------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 --- New Zealand Delphi U

Re: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Phil Scadden
omething other than assembler has to hold this thing together. I guess we could see the native OS as a collection of "web services" (but boy, that adds a lot of layers) and have a mechanism for writing "native web services". -----

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-06 Thread Phil Scadden
roposal that .NET replaces win32 eventually?? ------ Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 ---

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-06 Thread Phil Scadden
g that Borland should have pulled together. ------ Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 479966

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-05 Thread Phil Scadden
tely better (just not quite good enough for me to actually use it). ------ Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 479966

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