RE: [DUG] Delphi Canvas

2008-04-23 Thread Stephen Barker
Look at TPaintBox in ExtCtrls. Use it's OnPaint event to do the drawing onto it's canvas. Steve -Original Message- From: Bob Pawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 5:26 p.m. To: DUG Subject: [DUG] Delphi Canvas I want to create an interface using

[DUG] Validating uniqueness in a TDataset

2008-04-23 Thread Simon Garton
Quick question : how do I validate uniqueness in a TDataset ? I have some data aware controls and a TDBNavigator; I can check other validation stuff in the BeforePost event, but is there a sensible way of testing whether the field ‘name’ (which has a unique constraint in the database) already

Re: [DUG] Validating uniqueness in a TDataset

2008-04-23 Thread Alister Christie
The most basic way of doing this would be to do a bit of sql in your BeforePost event and see if that field is already used. If you don't know anything about the data underneath the TDataSet then this could be a bit tricky. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471

[DUG] FYI Roadmap Updated

2008-04-23 Thread Alan Rose
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Re: [DUG] Validating uniqueness in a TDataset

2008-04-23 Thread Rohit Gupta
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[DUG] Menus

2008-04-23 Thread Rohit Gupta
My brain is not working today. Is there an easy way to assign a bunch of menu items from a MainMenu to PopupMenu ? ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

RE: [DUG] Menus

2008-04-23 Thread Alan Rose
Add them to an Actionlist then they can share -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rohit Gupta Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 2:28 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Menus My brain is not working today. Is

Re: [DUG] ADMIN: Delphi List Issues

2008-04-23 Thread peter
Gary wrote: Email List Servers are a target as they broadcast email to many people, and when these guys detect many messages coming from one location on the NET to many of their users, they generally tend to slam the door shut. Aye, we get bitten that way a lot also, for the same reasons.

Re: [DUG] ADMIN: Delphi List Issues

2008-04-23 Thread peter
Don't handle sending emails yourself. Send them to a good local mail system such as postfix on Unix and that will deliver your mail much more reliably. Dude, sorry, but that is so far removed from reality. cheers, peter === Peter Hyde, Development

Re: [DUG] ADMIN: Delphi List Issues

2008-04-23 Thread David Moorhouse
Don't handle sending emails yourself. Send them to a good local mail system such as postfix on Unix and that will deliver your mail much more reliably. Actually, my experience is that the server and OS have nothing to do with it at all. Cheers D

Re: [DUG] ADMIN: Delphi List Issues

2008-04-23 Thread Berend de Boer
peter == peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: peter In fact, we have only a one in three success rate in getting peter perfectly legitimate personal emails to Hotmail peter users. Anybody else in that boat? Don't handle sending emails yourself. Send them to a good local mail system such

[DUG] Firebird 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 64 bit

2008-04-23 Thread John Bird
Hi guys - hope someone can shed some light, as my head is hurting after a daying trying lots of permutations! I am investigating upgrading from Firebird 1.5 to V2.0, so running tests on a clean server with no other Firebird stuff installed. Installing Firebird Classic V2.0 on a vanilla Windows