Re: [DUG]: mis using pointers

2001-11-15 Thread Corey Murtagh
Well, I do dabble. Kind of have to if I ever want to figure out what the VCL or any of the third-party components I use does... or, more importantly, why it's NOT doing things the way I think it should. And sometimes a general knowledge issue comes up here that I can insert my $0.02. -- Corey

Re: [DUG]: Service Order

2001-11-15 Thread David Brennan
We only buy Athlon machines at present (except for laptops) and haven't had any problems with them. - Original Message - From: Siegfried Kirchmair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:08 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]:

[DUG]: Slow Dino

2001-11-15 Thread Rohit Gupta
My Dino Walking Cursor walks too often when I am trying to do some work in the IDE. It actually keeps compiling the code again and again even when I have no wish to invoke the code insight or any such thing. Basically, I waste more time waiting for DIno than the good stuff ever helps me.

[DUG]: IDE Question....

2001-11-15 Thread Donovan J. Edye
G'Day, Does anyone know if it is possible to split the current editor window so that you can have 2 units visible at once? ie Unit1 Unit 2 GExperts does not appear to support this feature and nor does the IDE. Having to switch between tabs all the time

RE: [DUG]: IDE Question....

2001-11-15 Thread Stacey Verner
Go View - New Edit Window and you get two tabbed editors that you can layout however you like. You can't get a nice split like emacs or word does. Stacey -Original Message-From: Donovan J. Edye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 10:35 a.m.To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: IDE Question....

2001-11-15 Thread Manning, John
Does anyone know if it is possible to split the current editor window so that you can have 2 units visible at once? ie ... Not quite, but you can select View | New Edit Window and then reposition them so that you can get them in the position you want. It's a bit too much bother for me, but

Re: [DUG]: IDE Question....

2001-11-15 Thread David Brennan
Not as far as I know but you can open a second edit window (View menu, New Edit Window) and then size them so that they are one above the other. David. - Original Message - From: Donovan J. Edye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re:[DUG]: IDE Question....

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
In the Edit window Right-Click and select New Edit Window - D5 I can't remember for earlier versions... Regards Paul McKenzie = Paul McKenzie Jetbet II Developer = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (04) 576-6822 T.A.B. National Office 106-110 Jackson Street

RE: [DUG]: Service Order

2001-11-15 Thread Phil Middlemiss
The mapping product that we developed using Delphi (www.tumonz.co.nz) was developed on Intel and AMD chips using Delphi 4. As you can imagine the mapping software was very math intensive since we use vector map information instead of scanned bitmaps of maps. We found that if we compiled the

[DUG]: Drive info

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
All, Is there any way I can tell if the Drive letter on the PC is a local drive, floppy, CD, or mapped network one ? TIA Regards Paul McKenzie = Paul McKenzie Jetbet II Developer = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (04) 576-6822 T.A.B. National Office

RE: [DUG]: Drive info

2001-11-15 Thread Manning, John
Take a look at the WinAPI function GetDriveType HTH, John --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL

Re:RE: [DUG]: Drive info

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
Got it - thanks :-) Regards Paul McKenzie = Paul McKenzie Jetbet II Developer = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (04) 576-6822 T.A.B. National Office 106-110 Jackson Street Petone New Zealand Reply Separator

Re: [DUG]: Slow Dino

2001-11-15 Thread Paul Lowman
Rohit Whats a Dino walking cursor ?? Regards Paul Lowman Lowman Consulting Ltd. Embedded Systems Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread Manning, John
Sorry Paul I don't know the answer, but assume that you will probably have to iterate through the drives and look for a match for matching UNC name. The ExtractFileDrive is meant to extract the drive letter from a file name eg. D:\MyDir\Stuff.txt - D:\ \\MyServer\MyDir\Stuff.txt -

Re:RE: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
I was hoping to use it for just a directory - but even specifying a filename doesn't work... Regards Paul McKenzie = Paul McKenzie Jetbet II Developer = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (04) 576-6822 T.A.B. National Office 106-110 Jackson Street Petone New

Re: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread Nello Sestini
Sorry Paul I don't know the answer, but assume that you will probably have to iterate through the drives and look for a match for matching UNC name. right. you use WNetOpenEnum to set up an enum of RESOURCETYPE_DISK resources. then call WNetEnumResource to get them. You get back a

Re[2]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
That's the sort of thing I was after - but I want to go the other way. I have '\\MyServer\MyDirectory' I want to find the Drive mapping the user has eg H:\ I want to avoid iterating through the Drive mappings checking each one. Also the UNC for the D:\ or C:\ may be the one required. Regards

Re[2]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
Excellent - exactly what I was after, thanks muchly... Regards Paul McKenzie = Paul McKenzie Jetbet II Developer = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (04) 576-6822 T.A.B. National Office 106-110 Jackson Street Petone New Zealand Reply

Re[3]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread paul . mckenzie
Is anyone else getting mail back, after posting to the list, saying that they have .exe attachments removed or the mail had a virus ??? This is only occurring when posting to the Delphi List. if I post to ordinary addresses - there are no attachments and no viruses I have scanned my PC, the

[DUG]: Warning: Viruses are being returned from one or more DUG users

2001-11-15 Thread David Brennan
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my earlier email. Rodelio Ayroso (who is a DUG member) has a virus running on his machine. Everytime you send an email to DUG a copy will be sent to Rodelio (as it should). But the virus will then send you back a reply with an attachment called card.pif (or

Re: Re[3]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread Nello Sestini
Is anyone else getting mail back, after posting to the list, saying that they have .exe attachments removed or the mail had a virus ??? i'm not.David Brennan did post something earlier about a message with an attached virus - this may be related. Also, I notice that reply posts from you

RE: Re[3]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread Manning, John
I just received this email from our mail server: John MailMarshal (an automated content monitoring gateway) has stopped the following message: Message: Be49fa.0001.mml From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: [DUG]: IDE Question

[DUG]: Viruses in attachments

2001-11-15 Thread Matthews, Leon
Is in not possible to block all attachments sent to this list? Surely it would be better to send any files that need to be swapped peer-to-peer anyway... -- Leon -Original Message- From: Manning, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 15:29 To:

RE: Re[3]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread Patrick Dunford
Yes, occasionally. This seems to happen if your message body contains any kind of program code, particularly anything that looks like VBScript. It is incidentally interesting that UUencoded attachments may defeat some types of virus scanners. = Patrick Dunford,

Re: [DUG]: Slow Dino

2001-11-15 Thread Rohit Gupta
Rather than use a boring eggtimer cursor I use the suite of walking dinosaurs its apt when I am waiting for something to happen. :-) To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul Lowman

Re: [DUG]: Viruses in attachments

2001-11-15 Thread Nello Sestini
Is in not possible to block all attachments sent to this list? Surely it would be better to send any files that need to be swapped peer-to-peer anyway... it is possible (and has been discussed here a few times). i agree with you it's worth doing. but in this latest case, the worm coming