[DUG]: Installshield Custom Express editions: Y2K compliance

1999-04-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
Which company is certifying y2k compliance for Installshield custom editions for Delphi? There is no mention on either Inprise or Installshield's web sites. Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ Voluntary Student Membership: Equal Representation For All

RE: [DUG]: Execute and wait?

1999-04-11 Thread Dennis Chuah
Alistair, Hi. I have an online registration proc, which gets the user to enter some info, then executes another routine as below. Problem is, there is no wait for the external dialog (the mail routine) to complete. It works, but is messy. Can anyone suggest how to hold it till the mail box

[DUG]: Sorry for the plethoria of questions today!

1999-04-11 Thread Alistair George
I am trying to do a file association just to get the apps icon associated with a special file type I create. It worked once, but since then (I double checked by removing the reg entries) it wont make these .jps files appear with the associated icon. Anyone see why? r := TRegistry.Create;

RE: [DUG]: Execute and wait?

1999-04-11 Thread Alistair George
Actually, my call to Execute file is a morph of ShellExecute, so it returns a handle: myhandle:=ExecuteFile('mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject='+regstring, '', '',SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE); while (waitforsingleobject(myhandle,infinite)=WAIT_OBJECT_0) and not(escape) do application.ProcessMessages;

[DUG]: Interfaces Again ;)

1999-04-11 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
I have a question regarding interface delegation and reference counting. If a non interfaced object is extended with an interface and that interface uses delegation to implement that interface then how is instance destruction detected by the delegating class. Example below if the following is

[DUG]: SQL Links to SQL Server 7

1999-04-11 Thread james . fraser
I have a quick question that I thought someone out there would have the answer to. My understanding is that Microsoft no longer maintains/supports the DBLib interface to MS SQL Server - instead they promote ODBC and more recently the OLE-DB provider, which I believe do not use DBLib. If this

Re: [DUG]: Execute and wait?

1999-04-11 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Actually, my call to Execute file is a morph of ShellExecute, so it returns a handle: myhandle:=ExecuteFile('mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject='+regstring, '', '',SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE); while (waitforsingleobject(myhandle,infinite)=WAIT_OBJECT_0) and not(escape) do application.ProcessMessages;

RE: [DUG]: Execute and wait?

1999-04-11 Thread BJ Wilson
Happy Day. This function might be of use for you... procedure ExecuteAndWait (executable: string); var StartupInfo: TStartupInfo; ProcessInfo: TProcessInformation; CreatedOK: boolean; status: integer; ev: TEvent; i: integer; begin ev := TEvent.Create(nil, False, False,