Re: [DUG] Anyone with 5 minutes spare time?

2010-05-27 Thread Ross Levis
Hi Cameron Many thanks for the code! So far I've only needed to change TGUID to PGUID. But I'm not sure about this. aDSIntf is an interface you already have of i.e. IDirectSound or IDirectSoudnBuffer etc Does this interface need to be created somehow. The interfaces you mention ar

Re: [DUG] Importing data from Excel

2010-05-27 Thread Todd Martin
Hi David Have you considered using TADOQuery/TADOTable with the Microsoft.Jet OLE DB provider or MS ODBC provider for Excel? http://delphi.about.com/od/database/l/aa090903a.htm Todd > Has anyone used EMS Advanced Data Import VCL from SQL Manager.net to > import excel data from a file without Ex

[DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread John Bird
The following code which worked in XP/Vista no longer works in Windows 7 - it changes the application icon in the taskbar to show the state of processing - in this case recording or pausing of automatic time recording. Anyone have ideas on how to do this especially so it will work in all versi

Re: [DUG] Importing data from Excel

2010-05-27 Thread David Brennan
Hi Todd, Interesting idea. We want something that can read the Excel file without Office or indeed any consumer Microsoft products being installed. In some cases it will be running on a server with the user accessing the application using Terminal Services over the internet and the Excel file will

Re: [DUG] Anyone with 5 minutes spare time?

2010-05-27 Thread Cameron Hart
Yes there are 2 ways to get IKsPropertySet interfaces. One is to use QueryInterface on any existing Direct Sound interface that you have, the other is to create your own instance of it. I will update it to have this for you. From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi

Re: [DUG] Anyone with 5 minutes spare time?

2010-05-27 Thread Ross Levis
Instead of the QueryInterface, I tried this. const CLSID_DirectSoundPrivate: TGUID = '{11AB3EC0-25EC-11d1-A4D8-00C04FC28ACA}'; CoCreateInstance(CLSID_DirectSoundPrivate,nil,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,IID_IKsPr opertySet,PropSet); But I get "the specified class is not registered in the regi

Re: [DUG] Anyone with 5 minutes spare time?

2010-05-27 Thread Cameron Hart
Try this You would call it with a null GUID to retrieve the default handler. Uses ActiveX; Var WaveDeviceId : cardinal WaveDeviceId:= DSGUIDToWaveDeviceID(nil, GUID_NULL, DIRECTSOUNDDEVICE_DATAFLOW_RENDER); //**

Re: [DUG] Importing data from Excel

2010-05-27 Thread Todd Martin
Hi David Provided you have installed the MS Access database engine, you should be able to connect to an Excel file without MS Office being installed on your server. Check out this link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C06B8369-60DD-4B64-A44B-84B371EDE16D&displaylang=en How

Re: [DUG] Anyone with 5 minutes spare time?

2010-05-27 Thread Ross Levis
Thanks Cameron. I'm getting a crash in the PropSet.Get 7c809e8a kernel32.dll MultiByteToWideChar 004a7245 DSGuidToWaveDevice.pas.exe DSGuidToWaveDevice 65 +15 DSGUIDToWaveDeviceID Does perhaps memory need allocating for the PChar vars Description, Module, Interface_, or is this done

Re: [DUG] Anyone with 5 minutes spare time?

2010-05-27 Thread Ross Levis
I think the problem is the use of TGUID instead of PGUID in your structures and functions. The MSDN page mentions the parameter can be NULL which would indicate a pointer. Changed TGUID to PGUID and the function at least doesn't crash. Need to test further if it actually works with a real GUI

Re: [DUG] Importing data from Excel

2010-05-27 Thread David Brennan
Hi Todd, Client local drives can be accessed from a Terminal Services/Citrix connection so long as the user has allowed access to them. They appear as mapped drives. If the user hasn't allowed access then that is their problem! Sounds like it would work and isn't something I considered - thanks f

Re: [DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi John, Wouldn't know out of the top of my head... I know it's a long shot but how about trying to run your app as Administrator - see if that makes a difference? Using D2010 on W7 here too - if you post a small example app - ie. stripped down to just the problem - I'll have a play with it. Jan

Re: [DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread John Bird
Bingo - that was it - it needs administrative access and icon change works fine. (The user I am logged in does already have administrator level - so I hadn't thought of this yet), but I need to run the program as administrator to have control over the task bar it looks. Now - why did it used

Re: [DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi John, On 28/05/10 11:17, John Bird wrote: > Bingo - that was it - it needs administrative access and icon change works > fine. (The user I am logged in does already have administrator level - so > I hadn't thought of this yet), but I need to run the program as > administrator to have cont

Re: [DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread Conor Boyd
I'm not particularly well up on Windows 7, but if you're talking about applications by default NOT running elevated, then Vista was the same. As you say, there is a difference between running applications simply while logged into an administrative account and an application running "elevated", but

Re: [DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Conor, On 28/05/10 12:42, Conor Boyd wrote: > I'm not particularly well up on Windows 7, but if you're talking about > applications by default NOT running elevated, then Vista was the same. > > As you say, there is a difference between running applications simply > while logged into an administ

Re: [DUG] Windows 7 Delphi 2007

2010-05-27 Thread Ross Levis
Surely that is security gone made. Not letting another application change the icon of another is fair enough, but where is the security threat for an application that created the icon in the first place! Ross. -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@d