RE: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Farquharson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carl Reynolds Sent: Friday, 12 March 1999 12:37 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG) Max Nilson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: There are two main

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
Modify or Re design the VCL??? You guys a gotta be in ga ga land. Man, like this is bullshit. Max Fox was onto it, and said it all for me.I mean lets get a little practical about all this. Are all your egos so inflated that you actually think you can out do the guys in Borland ??? So why are

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

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 12 March 1999 10:27 Subject: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4) Tony Blomfield wrote: In addition, IMO quick reports is very much

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
I hate to bring the flogging of dead horses back, as thats just criminally insane. But when this VCL thread started a few days ago, an immediate thought came to mind. Max/Ian have spoken at great lengths decribing how to replaced TEdit and the Grids, I wonder, how much do these new controls

RE: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Derricutt Sent: Friday, 12 March 1999 23:40 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG) snip Some of you may guess

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Nic Wise
The origins of Object Pascal were with Apple. They managed to implement it without the Win32 API. Object Pascal has nothing to do with the VCL - aside from that fact that its written in OP. OP has NO ties Win32. The VCL is build on Win32, it exists around its messaging model etc. If you have a

RE: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Peter Hyde
Ian wrote: I thought perhaps we needed a timelock, but the version we published only worked for D3 so we effectively had a timelock. You almost certainly needed some kind of lock or nag. "...only worked for D3..." basically means: a) Anyone using D3 gets it for free b) Anyone using D4

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

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 10:45 pm 12/3/1999 +1300, Tony Blomfield said: The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which can not be modified

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

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Steve Peacocke wrote: I've been using QR but will have a looky at this RBPro due to the kind words and warm fuzzies experienced by others here. Steve, don't forget to check out the news.digatal-metaphors.com usenet server, just reading through should be very informative for you as well. Mark

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Max Nilson wrote: 100% pure GDI and Windows event handling is used in the production of these new controls 8-) Eeek :) I fear to tread on even LOOKING at that code Max :) There are already a couple of OpenSource type efforts underway to do a VCL type library based on one of the X toolkits

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

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 02:48 pm 13/3/1999 +1300, Tony Blomfield said: Hi Steve. Long time no speak. Very long. Good to catch up with you. I too abandoned the list for a long while and only just came back. Re Crystal, so nothing has really changed has it. Of course this means that Crystal is disgustingly slow at