[DUG] ADUG Symposium

2010-02-23 Thread Rohit Gupta
Is anyone going to the ADUG symposium ? If so, Melbourne or Canberra ? Rohit ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to

Re: [DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi? - Solution

2010-02-23 Thread Rohit Gupta
Sinu, I dont know if its been answered satisfactorily. There are too many replies to wade through. I recall that along the way Windows standard changed from 0 being a null pointer to -1. I had to change some of my code in stringlist to work. I think my solution was to just multiply by 2

Re: [DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi? - Solution

2010-02-23 Thread Jolyon Smith
There was no change in the “Windows standard”. It’s a simple error in some poorly implemented error handling code added to the VCL at some point (subsequently fixed in combo boxes, but not listboxes – as of D2006). You needn’t have waded through all the replies to find that the answer was

[DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi all, Just wanted to say G'day to all the fellow Delphi developers here in NZ. I immigrated from the Netherlands a few years ago to live here in NZ with my Kiwi partner and have been a long time Delphi developer (and a member of the Dutch DUG (slightly different name)). I'm just about getting

Re: [DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread Kyley Harris
Well.. I'm here.. Nice to meet you Jan. In this day and age I think the DUG is almost more of a social gathering online than anything else. There is so much available online resource. Goodluck finding a delphi project in NZ.. especially if its a new project. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:12 AM,

Re: [DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi? - Solution

2010-02-23 Thread Rohit Gupta
Jolyon, As I mentioned I was reporting on things 7 years old, with failing memory quite common to my age. And I am not going to spend the time searching for it to prove you right or wrong. Again, from memory, Intel was changing the design of the memory manager which was going to mean that

Re: [DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi? - Solution

2010-02-23 Thread Jolyon Smith
Intel didn’t write the Delphi memory manager. And in any event, the list index out of bounds error triggered by storing -1 in the item data of a list/combobox item had NOTHING what-so-ever to do with the implementation of ANY memory manager or any changes in any memory manager. I don’t

Re: [DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread Jeremy North
Welcome Jan! I'm from Australia but tend to read this list more often than the local one. Goodluck finding a delphi project in NZ.. especially if its a new project. I think if you reread his message he already has a new project to work on. cheers, Jeremy

Re: [DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread Kyley Harris
Jeremy.. Being invited sounds to me like an interview.. not a commencement :) Wordplay perhaps.. just how I read it the first and second time. otherwise.. Jan.. Goodluck Having Found a project.. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeremy North jeremy.no...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome Jan! I'm from

Re: [DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread PDS - John
Hi Jan, welcome to the DUG Jus out of curiosity, can you give me an idea how much Delphi is used in The Netherlands at all? BTW, interesting website what you have It works!. John C -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi- boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf

Re: [DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi all, Thanks for the replies :-) Jus out of curiosity, can you give me an idea how much Delphi is used in The Netherlands at all? Quite a bit observing the participants to the UG conferences. I wouldn't be able to give percentages (compared to other RAD environments) though. Am I

Re: [DUG] Greetings

2010-02-23 Thread David Brennan
I dunno, I tried to post a comment on your website and it (or IT) did NOT work! ;-) Welcome to NZ DUG... as Kyley said it does seem as much a social discussion forum these days but occasionally there are interesting technical issues too. Cheers, David. -Original Message- From:

[DUG] TImage/ImageList/Transparent/XP Manifest

2010-02-23 Thread John Bird
I have been puzzling over how a bitmap sometimes paints for a long time, I have a circular image (of a LED) that I want to have a transparent surrounding to as the LED is round and the surround is square. In this case, I have 5 images in a Timagelist, and switch the one I want using code like

Re: [DUG] TImage/ImageList/Transparent/XP Manifest

2010-02-23 Thread John Bird
Further to this with some Googling I found I had the same issue 3 years ago with D2006. http://www.mail-archive.com/del...@ns3.123.co.nz/msg08778.html At first it happened mainly in the IDE, then on unusual Windows configurations (like terminal services or RDP), nowadays it seems to happen