myOffice Email MessageCheaper is mainly related to number being made.
For years laptops were more expensive than desktops, as each manufacturer had
to customise their smaller size motherboards etc. Desktops used more mass
made mainstream off-the-shelf components (eg power supplies, memory
This is not strictly Delphi related but hope someone can help.
Since Vista came out I've been using a small program I wrote with a manifest
to give it elevated privileges, so I can write to the HKLM registry when
requested by any of my applications. I use a shared memory component
(memory
I'm using named pipes without problems (Win7 and 2008 server)
Paul
- Original Message -
From: Ross Levis
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 2:13 PM
Subject: [DUG] IPC with an elevated program
This is not strictly Delphi related
[Reply]
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If you want to to use shared memory in Vista and above its best to write
a service to create global shared memory that all users can access. The
key here is global shared memory and with the right security bits set.
Best to Google global shared memory for more info.
heres one link I found that
Hi All,
I'm posting this on behalf of a friend, he reckons he hasn't had much joy
getting help from Embarcadero so I thought I'd try it here on the
off-chance.
Delphi 2010 enterprise was running fine on my machine until yesterday. Out
of the blue, it just will not load. It appears to be
Resizing images for Images, bitButtons and icons - I guess we all do this.
I have used IrfanView and Photofiltre for resizing images, and noticed they
tend to alter the edge pixels around an image - I guess it averages the pixel
colours on a sharp edge if resizing smaller. This is a problem
If you continue to be stuck you should ask on http://stackoverflow.com
or the Delphi Newsgroups.
Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
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Willie Juson wrote:
Hi All,
I’m posting this on
The GiMP is always handy for image manipulation. Generally I draw my
images in a really old version of Corel Draw, then use GiMP for
transparance, shadows and so on.
Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
seeing as you have delphi.. Get the GraphicsEx.pas and use their stretch
routine. Fast and very high quality. :D
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Alister Christie
alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote:
The GiMP is always handy for image manipulation. Generally I draw my
images in a really old
Can you post your example? Or another example?
C.
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2010 9:46 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Resizing
Sure.. gimme 5 minutes
i can email you the source too.. its open
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Conor Boyd conor.b...@trimble.co.nzwrote:
Can you post your example? Or another example?
C.
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*From:* delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz
begin
FSourceBMP.Assign(Value);
if Zoom 1 then
begin
FBMP.Assign(FSourceBMP);
FBMP.Width := Trunc(FSourceBMP.Width * Zoom);
FBMP.Height := Trunc(FSourceBMP.Height * Zoom);
Stretch(FBMP.Width, FBMP.Height ,sfBox,1,FSourceBMP,FBMP);
end else
FBMP.Assign(FSourceBMP);
If he recalls the last loaded project, delete the DSK of that project.
Otherwise run the IDE without loading the last project using the -np switch.
Also try running a fresh version with a fresh registry by using the -r
command line switch such as -rTestInstall.
This will create a new registry
Hi Kyley,
Thanks, although I was asking John for an example of his concern. ;-)
I've used Graphics32 previously to resize images with Lanczos Kernel
resampling etc myself (see the screenshots on http://gloss.ildica.com/
to see what I use it for), so I know how to resize images properly while
Thanks for sharing.
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Kyley Harris
Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:58 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Resizing images
begin
More specifically - does the GIMP or any other resizing method allow me to
specify this?:
Where say an image with a a white background (the transparent colour) meets
a grey border, and the image is resized (especially if resized smaller),
there will be on this edge a new pixel that has part of
Thanks, although I was asking John for an example of his concern. ;-)
LoL.. see why programmers dont rule the world.. haha..
Its our specification techniques.. I saw.. Can you post an example? and
think source.. not.. Hey John.. whats your concern with the image quality.
LoL..
On Tue, Jan 19,
Unlikely.. Normally you'd Crop, Resize, and reapply a border.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nzwrote:
More specifically - does the GIMP or any other resizing method allow me to
specify this?:
Where say an image with a a white background (the transparent
I purchased an icon pack from Glyphlab when it went on sale last year.
Might still be cheap.
Has heaps of different icons in all the required formats. Only has
them in 16, 24, 32 and 48 sizes. I also own a copy of Axialis Icon
Workshop which is great for creating icons. They include a number of
I have used this site a few times :- http://www.iconarchive.com/
they are meant to be free, most are some go off to pay for sites, but you
can usually find ones you want.
Jeremy
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Jeremy North jeremy.no...@gmail.comwrote:
I purchased an icon pack from Glyphlab
What I think you're seeing (without seeing your example) is the softness
introduced by most resampling algorithms (when used for downsampling).
Something like Bicubic Sharper in PS or Lanczos Kernel in Irfanview
might help.
However, most of these sharpening algorithms probably work better on
I know thi sis offtopic, but does anyone know WHY FireFox consumse SO MUCH
RAM ??
I have 8 tabs open and its usign over 400MB !! Its complete madness ! I
have started going off Firefox lately. On ym Vista 64bit install at home, I
cant do an F5 to refresh, I have to do a CTRL+F5 . grrr
Here is an example.shows the original larger image and the resized one.
You can see the ragged border when the image is on a darker background, as
the offending pixels are not the same as the transparent colour of the rest
of the square image out to the edges - they have been altered in
I think the real problem here is that your original image was probably made
using Layers in Photoshop etc, and saved as PNG.
to get the same quality you need the Layered source so that antialiasing is
done properly when shrunk and then saved again. There is no realy way to
correct this issue when
Firefox does use more ram over time - restart it and you will find the memory
use dives. Its not all Firefox's fault - some is memory leaks, but most is
from Flash and other plugins, so other browsers will do the same.
Hint later versions are usually better at using less memory! So check your
What I have just tried is this:
Open your double image in Irfanview.
Crop it to the left hand image.
Open the Resize/Resample dialog.
Choose to resize it in half.
Choose to Apply Sharpen after resample.
Choose to Resample using Lanczos Kernel.
Voila, it looks pretty good to me.
The main point
Talking about images.. Isn't it damn annoying how delphis TBitmap, TGraphic,
TJPEGimage etc do not expose or make available any of the header information
such as DPI. you have to save it to a stream and then rip it all our
yourselves even though they parse the information to extract little bits.
Have you tried the office picture manager. I just took a screen capture
of that link and saved it as a png and then resized that png in Office
picture manager(comes with Office) and it looks fine. Could you provide
a link to the image without the background?
Steve Ayers
Analyst Programmer
Yes I thought aboutt eh flash stuff, but even when I have pages open with no
flash it uses a lot of ram too...I have already got rid of chrome for
the same reasons. Figured it was not worth having 2 memory hungry browsers
installed :-)
Jeremy
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, John Bird
I don't really want global shared memory. The reason for the small app is
to have the UAC prompt appear when I need to make changes to the HKLM
registry, which is very rare. There is a standard way to do this but it
sounds difficult. Some sort of DLL needs to be created I believe.
Ross.
I just use TCPIP for everything.. then it doesn't matter where the stuff is
residing and its as simple as you can get for communicating.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ross Levis r...@stationplaylist.comwrote:
This is not strictly Delphi related but hope someone can help.
Since Vista
Look out for flash adverts on any page you are viewing, cricinfo, stuff and
facebook all use that sort of thing and they absolutely kill my mac. If the
kids have left facebook open and then switched users, performance goes
through the floor (particularly if all three of them have been doing the
Whatever you do don't use IE at the moment!
(Some people in Google are feeling this acutely!)
Did restarting Firefox drastically reduce memory use?
John
- Original Message -
From: Jeremy Coulter
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:52
Could you just use a TCP/IP socket?
A bit more work, but no major problem...
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of Ross Levis
Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2010 1:26 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] IPC with an
I went down the elevated COM DLL route that you mention about 6 months
ago, and it works very well.
There's a post on StackOverflow here
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/923350/delphi-prompt-for-uac-elevati
on-when-needed/923551#923551) that I contributed to that should have the
info you
Actually IE is working the best of all of them ! Restarting the FF session
did sort the memory our obivously, but it started increasing straight away.
Ah well
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:40 PM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nzwrote:
Whatever you do don't use IE at the moment!
(Some people
IE has a lot of security issues...
Edward Koryagin
--- On Tue, 19/1/10, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [DUG] Offtopic - but
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz
Received: Tuesday, 19 January,
That would explain a few things.
IE is always calling and asking where I am, wanting to know what other
browsers I'm with, etc etc
:)
-Original Message-
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-
boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Edward Koryagin
Sent: Tuesday, 19 January
Ok, this wasnt intened to be a browser war. I am pretty sure everyone is
aware of the IE has security issues.
Jeremy
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Jolyon Smith jsm...@deltics.co.nz wrote:
That would explain a few things.
IE is always calling and asking where I am, wanting to know what
Ram? I find processor usage is the problem. It can suck up 30% of my
processor for no apparent reason when it's just sitting in the background!
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Yes FF consumes a lot of ram. I don't think there is anything you can
do about it.
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Bring back Gopher i say !!oops think I have been using the internet for
too long !:-)
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Sean Cross
sean.cr...@catalystrisk.co.nzwrote:
Ram? I find processor usage is the problem. It can suck up 30% of my
processor for no apparent reason when it's just
If its eating CPU go looking thru the tabs for ones with flash running - hint
anything that moves. See if closing them fixes the problem.
There has been requests in the Firefox development list for a task manager for
tabs like Chrome has, and the ability to turn off all background/invisible
Been trying to connect to MSSQL 2005 with DB Express (TSQLConnection and
TSQLQuery), but cannot get it to work, we are getting an access violation at
address 017E0913 in DBXMSS30.DLL read of address 0182
Using instead ADO (TADOConnection and TADOQuery) works fine, but is slow - 7000
My Firefox (3.7) is using 12-13%cpu and 400MB with 88 tabs open at the moment.
Thats not too bad...
John
From: Sean Cross
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG] Offtopic - but
Ram? I find processor
John,
Hi. If you do not use data aware controls, or otherwise need TDataset, then
I would recommend that you use ADO directly. Fast, simple, and does not
have the overhead of TADOConnection, etc. I normally import the type
library into Delphi, but you can also use the one that comes with
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