Re: [DUG]: Exe Size

2001-06-06 Thread Steve Peacocke
Thanks to all who replied, we have all (finally) found an answer to this very frustrating question. Win 9x does indeed, despite it's marketing blurb, have limits with the size of the EXE and we exceeded this. The problem occurs when we start the application of just over 11 megs. The

Re: RE: [DUG]: Do NOT calculate Pi in binary (This list is getting very geeky!!!)

2001-05-31 Thread Steve Peacocke
you wrote: 1010010001101001... 110111001011100001001101010001100... This list is getting very geeky!!! As a friend of mine would say Aaaarrrgh! NERDS :) Steve --- New

Re: [DUG]: help with creating binary file

2001-05-25 Thread Steve Peacocke
of Byte This declares a variable 'MyFile' to be of simple byte type. You can open it, seek in it, and do anything you would normally do with a file of record. I have used these many times in the past instead of file of record as it gives me much more leeway. Steve Peacocke

Re: [DUG]: help with creating binary file

2001-05-25 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 10:18 pm 25.05.01 +1200, you wrote: what i should have said was that i am wanting to take the text in my memo box and write it out to a binary file Then you should use memo1.SaveToFile(FileName.txt); Steve Peacocke

RE: [DUG]: OK I've heard enough

2001-05-10 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 09:00 am 10.05.01 +1200, you wrote: At NZ$5500 pa the MSDN Universal subscription seems to represent comparitively remarkable value for money. It includes 5 user licenses of the Enterprise versions of all the MS development tools (?), all the Windows platforms, the MSDN library, Office,

Re: [DUG]: OK I've heard enough

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Peacocke
the Pro version with enough ability so that the REAL PRO's out there can use it. It's the REAL PRO's that convinces the Corporates to buy, not the pointy-haired bosses. Price out the REAL PRO's and your sales will disappear. Steve Peacocke

Re: [DUG]: OK I've heard enough

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 08:56 am 10.05.01 +1200, you wrote: Live data to the web? You make it sound uncommon, or make it sound like VB can't do that. I find PHP allows me to get data from my databases to a webpage quicker and easier than Delphi anyday, with alot less overhead. Perhaps, but how about Interbase data?

RE: [DUG]: d6 - pricing, mutter...

2001-05-08 Thread Steve Peacocke
version. More than a little pissed off that what started out as a good cheap language for the genuine programmer has now become a luxury item only available to the very large corporates. Steve Peacocke --- New Zealand Delphi

RE: [DUG]: Delphi 6 info

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 11:17 am 02.05.01 +1200, you wrote: What about stopping by Hamilton on the way ;-) Or Tauranga?? I'd come to Hamilton though! Steve --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 6 info

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Peacocke
people who have lots of time on your hands can do nice things like look at new versions. Ah well, someone's gotta do all the work :) Steve Steve Peacocke Amongst Kiwifruit, Avacados, Pheasants and Quail in the sunny Bay of Plenty

RE: [DUG]: IDE Shortcut?

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 01:50 pm 02.05.01 +1200, you wrote: While on this IDE thing, is there any way in delphi to block indent by simply pushing the tab button when a block of text is selected (a la, again, vb). Ctrl-K-I seems a bit clumsy for such an often used task? Really sounds like you need to take a look at

RE: [DUG]: IDE Shortcut?

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Peacocke
You may instead try DelForExp a fairly good Delphi formatter that we use here. That way you don't need to bother with changes in indenting (eg. surround this whole piece of code with a try/except, now Ctrl-D and it's all correctly indented and formatted. free from...

Re: [DUG]: ISAPI dlls...

2001-03-28 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 12:40 pm 29.03.01 +1200, you wrote: First, how do I configure IIS to auto unload the DLL after its run it? I remember reading somewhere there was a registry key you could change to do this... When I looked into this, I read that this is a manual process. Once the DLL is loaded, the only

Re: [DUG]: Deafult Button

2001-03-27 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 07:18 am 28/03/01 +1200, Jeremy Coulter said: Hi all. I am SURE this has been asked before, BUT, is there away to set the default button in a messagedlg ? or am I better to write my own and do it that way? Not through's Delphi's functions, you will have to look directly at the Windows

Re: [DUG]: TTreeView

2001-03-20 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 11:17 am 21/03/01 +1200, Rohit Gupta said: Whats the easiest way to change the font/color on TTreeView for individual items ? Gidday Rohit. After just completing a rather extensive TTreeView project, I was surprised when I went to look at the help to find no Color property on TTreeNode.

RE: [DUG]: Number of lines in text file

2001-03-20 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 03:28 pm 21/03/01 +1100, Sergei Stenkov said: Steve Peacocke wrote: FileSize will give you the size in bytes which may be what you are looking Unfortunately not, since the files I'm working with do not have fixed structure This would require that you assign it as a file of byte rather than

Re: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names

2001-03-07 Thread Steve Peacocke
Mark, In recent years I have forsaken the old and trusty TextFile variable to using TStrings. With TStrings, not only can I write to and read from text files in a single call, but the contents are then already placed into a ready made object for me to manipulate. eg: Var Stuff: TStrings;

Re: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names

2001-03-07 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 05:33 pm 8/03/01 -0800, Mark Howard said: In fact, to state it again - more clearly this time. I'm sorry for the earlier muddle. I want to be able to do something like the following: Var FileName, FileOne, FileTwo : TextFile; File : String; begin if cond1 then

Re: [DUG]: TForm.Print

2001-02-28 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 09:44 am 1/03/01 +1300, David O'Brien said: Does anyone know why the TForm.Print function prints blank pages when the form width is over a certain size, or how to get around the problem? Using D5. One possability is that the form graphic is too much for the memory in the printer. This may be

Re: [DUG]: Accessing page in TWebBrowser

2001-02-28 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 03:49 pm 1/03/01 +1100, Alex Kouznetsov said: How can I access html text of the page currently displayed in the TWebBrowser component ? Thanks Alex The simple answer is you can't. The TWebBrowser component is not a Delphi component but an control that gives you access to Internet Explorer in

Re: [DUG]: Help On DataBase

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Peacocke
for each person, alongside the name. Steve Peacocke --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body

Re: [DUG]: D3 - ClientDataSet

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Peacocke
and can reccommend ? SOmeone on here a while back suggested this little gem which seems to be kinda simple and can meet your needs - no DLL, no BDE, no Nothing, just your EXE. http://www.unleytools.com/ Take a look. Steve Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251

Re: [DUG]: Newbie SQL question

2001-01-31 Thread Steve Peacocke
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:57:48 +1000 Carl Reynolds wrote: Some choices are Another idea is to adjust the WHERE clause in code and re-send the query. For example, original SQL: SQL.Text := 'Select * from people ' + 'where city = ''Auckland'''; Then later, add:

Re: [DUG]: TDataSet.OnBeforeScroll

2001-01-29 Thread Steve Peacocke
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:48:14 +1300 "Mark Derricutt" wrote: I've got some code in OnBeforeScroll, and in OnBeforePost. When calling Prior I'm assuming OnBeforeScroll -should- run first. However it doesn't, Surely the Post would HAVE to come before you can scroll, therefore

RE: [DUG]: Join SQL?

2001-01-29 Thread Steve Peacocke
On readable SQL My Version SELECT p.project_name, s.staff_name, m.staff_name FROM project p JOIN staff s ON s.staff_id = s.staff_id JOIN staff m ON on m.staff_id = s.staff_id An interesting style, I would have written it as... select p.project_name, s.staff_name,

Re: [DUG]: DBLookup Combos

2001-01-07 Thread Steve Peacocke
to set the combo to use csDropDownList to restrict users to only use what is in the combobox, or csDropDown to allow the user to type in an entry that does not exist in the list. Steve Steve Peacocke With the Vizslas Amongst Kiwifruit, Avacados, Pheasants and Quail in the sunny Bay of Plenty

RE: [DUG]: Custom syntax hightlightign in the delphi IDE?

2000-12-27 Thread Steve Peacocke
said: You might consider instead coding in EditPlus which is a very good extensible shareware editor that can be customised to highlight for Delphi and for any other language you are coding in. At the moment I use it extensively to code in PHP. http://www.editplus.com Steve Peacocke

Re: [DUG]: Progress while copying files

2000-12-14 Thread Steve Peacocke
iddle of road, 'n we had to lick road for breakfast each morning before work" But I'd suggest just using a TAnimate to show file copy - its what Windows does. Steve Steve Peacocke With the Vizslas Amongst Kiwifruit, Avacados, Pheasants and Quail in the sunny Bay

Re: [DUG]: ISAPI DB App query

2000-12-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
Good stuff - Delphi is an Excellent tool for producing CGI stuff (always did hate Perl). Now tell me that Kylix will mean I can produce CGI apps that can run on Unix servers. Steve Steve Peacocke With the Vizslas Amongst Kiwifruit, Avacados, Pheasa

[DUG]: QuickReports and CGI / ISAPI apps

2000-12-05 Thread Steve Peacocke
I can get the QRHTMLFilter component to send the result to the TWebResponse.Content? Your help would save many hours of hair pulling and there's not much left as it is. Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251

Re: [DUG]: QuickReports and CGI / ISAPI apps

2000-12-05 Thread Steve Peacocke
ting files on the disk - seems messy to me. Or Subclass TQRHTML to override the functionallity Na, sounds like work - and I don't have the source for that, only the standard stuff that comes with Delphi. Head hurts. Steve Peacocke (02

Re: [DUG]: embedded database.

2000-11-24 Thread Steve Peacocke
th body of "unsubscribe delphi" --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Steve Peacocke With the Vizslas Amongst Kiwifru

Re: [DUG]: embedded database.

2000-11-24 Thread Steve Peacocke
. Steve Steve Peacocke With the Vizslas Amongst Kiwifruit, Avacados, Pheasants and Quail in the sunny Bay of Plenty --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http

RE: [DUG]: Web Stuff

2000-11-13 Thread Steve Peacocke
easier. Stephen Bertram I'm using IBTools with Delphi 5 so am not going through the BDE to Interbase - have no problem and the requests are screamingly fast. Steve Peacocke --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List

Re: [DUG]: Web Stuff

2000-11-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
proven extremely efficient in web development, especially when accessing databases. Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251 --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http

Re: [DUG]: [Q] Lightweight DBMS....

2000-11-03 Thread Steve Peacocke
, then perhaps the programmer should reduce by selection, but even so, the grid will only fetch enough to display the records currently shown, fetching others when needed. Steve Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251 Dilbert: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for thou art crunchy and wouldst taste

Re: [DUG]: [Q] Lightweight DBMS....

2000-11-02 Thread Steve Peacocke
that should never be needed, fast, and never a bad word I've read about it. Go for it. Steve Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251 Dilbert: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for thou art crunchy and wouldst taste good with

Re: [DUG]: Basic HTML/Delphi Question

2000-10-27 Thread Steve Peacocke
of strings to a global TString. The OnHTMLTag will insert the TString by replacing #Stuff with the known global TString. That way I can have a PageProducer called pgAnything and use that every time. Steve Peacocke --- New Zealand

Re: [DUG]: ActiveX in Web Applications

2000-10-17 Thread Steve Peacocke
Peter Hyde said .. Try to connect it with a TCP/IP string like this: 192.168.255.10:d:\datapath\here.gdb (can use a site name instead of IP # if you like, but must be one which is comprehensible from the client). That didn't Work, but this did!

Re: [DUG]: Query Parameters

2000-10-17 Thread Steve Peacocke
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:14:15 +1300 Stacey Verner wrote: select :param, field from table Perhaps this was a typo but you cannot specify a param on a query in anything but a value. Tha above will produce an error. I've deleted the earlier post where you had the full query, but I think

Re: [DUG]: TMemos StringGrids

2000-10-16 Thread Steve Peacocke
d be right. So I'm lazy, sue me - but it works! Steve Peacocke 025 951-251 --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub,

[DUG]: ActiveX in Web Applications

2000-10-16 Thread Steve Peacocke
to ensure direct access to the database using ActiveX in the browser of a user a hundred miles away? Any other hints, suggestions and watch-out-for's ? Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251 --- New Zealand Delphi U

Re: [DUG]: HTML client

2000-09-24 Thread Steve Peacocke
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:46:20 +0700 "Nello Sestini" wrote: But - what I was hoping to find was something with the machinery for parsing the "raw" HTML responses that the filter intercepts from the server.I can tweak them however I like - but I have to take the raw HTML apart

Re: [DUG]: Sending and Recieving E-Mail.

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Peacocke
at this article and code .. http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=1230 Steve Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251 Dilbert: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for thou art crunchy and wouldst taste good with sauce" -

[DUG]: D4 D5 on the same machine

2000-08-29 Thread Steve Peacocke
the D5 install? (Win98) Steve Steve Peacocke (025) 951-251 Dilbert: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for thou art crunchy and wouldst taste good with sauce" --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - D

RE: [DUG]: Version Control Wanted

1999-06-02 Thread Steve Peacocke
, while being grouped into directories, are totally seperate entities to each other. In other words, you can't, say, get all the source code for version 1.5 of MyGreatProgram. Steve __ |Steve Peacocke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | http

[DUG]: URGENT: programmer needed for 5-7 days

1999-04-14 Thread Steve Peacocke
more about it (phone numbers below). Steve Peacocke (04) 527-6895 (025) 951-251 --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

[DUG]: Wellington Delphi contractors wanted

1999-03-31 Thread Steve Peacocke
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Re: [DUG]: DBCtrlGrid comments?

1999-03-22 Thread Steve Peacocke
. __ |Steve Peacocke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | http://trader.co.nz/ | also, trader.co.nz/vizsla/trader.co.nz/vizsla/docking --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DUG]: Form Caption TField.OnValidate

1999-03-19 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 06:50 pm 19/3/1999 +1300, Steve Peacocke said: Question #1. Simple really, I create the form, then change the form's caption depending on a number of variables. Except that it doesn't change. Answer comes to me in the end. My program had encountered an error opening a table and skipped

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
s and warm fuzzies experienced by others here. Steve ______ |Steve Peacocke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | www.trader.co.nz/ | www.trader.co.nz/vizsla/ --- New Zealand De

[DUG]: Crystal Reports (was: Report Builder Pro)

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
e-number-direct-to-Development-team" version 1.0 Other than that, I dunno. Trying to find the Report Builder Pro, Alta-Vista turned up "ReportPrinter Pro" which seems to have a nifty end user report builder. That may help. Steve _____

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