[DUG]: SQL Problem

1999-02-08 Thread Mark Derricutt
[This message has also been posted.] I have a table looking like this: ID | Code | Value -++--- A| T | V1 A| P | V2 A| S | V3 B| T | V4 B| P | V5 B| S | V6 And I want to turn it into a table like: ID | Temp | Pres

[DUG]: Inserting Blobs Via SQL

1999-02-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
I'm wanting to insert a record into a table via SQL that has a blob field, at the moment I'm using this code: Query.Close; Query.SQL.Text := Format('INSERT INTO CTabHed ( Name, Landscape ) VALUES ( "Copy of ''%s''", False )',[ dmSTEAMMAN.qCTabHed.FieldByName('Name').AsString]);

[DUG]: Date Selection Component Madness...

1999-02-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
'lo peoples - I have a really confussing and annoying problem... I have a TDateTimePicker component, and I wish to change its MinDate/MaxDate properties. Just prior to modifying the MinDate property I have: Date = 2/12/98 MinDate = 30/12/99 I have no idea where the Date/MinDate

Re: [DUG]: Archive search for this list.

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Heya Phil - http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ and http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ Phil Scadden wrote: I have lost my reference to how to search the archive of this list that some kind person has done. Can someone send it on please??

[DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
MS Scripting engine or what??? Thanks in advance, Mark Derricutt --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Nic Wise wrote: [DLLs] Definatly overkill :) Yup, and a memory hog/bloat, and make it not very customizable for quick fixes/additions :( http://www.microsoft.com/scripting I think - seach on msdn.microsoft.com or install IE4 I've just been looking through the sites on this and also came

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also the Dream Controls - available from dream.com (?) or DSP. This seems to good to be true as it gives you a full Delphi interpreter and Delphi like environment. Mmmm, now I like the sound of this. We're also using Report Builder for our reports, and

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Dennis Chuah wrote: Have you considered using packages? If you build your app and dlls with packages, you will find a big reduction in size. You can also use packages instead of dll. (Well, a package is really just a dll with info about If possible, I want to get away from compiled

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Grant Black wrote: imagine in a few years when you get a few thousand lines of perl tying One would hope your 'scripts' are not reaching the thousand lines of code area, if so then its a very complex piece of script, or theres something wrong with the main application :) If your DLL's work

[DUG]: Send To... menu?

1999-03-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
Does anyone know how to access and build the Win 9x SendTo menu? -and- pick out any pertinent information about the destination so that I know what to do with it? like if its an email addy make my data in an attachment ready format etc. etc. or copy to disk etc.???

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
Dennis Chuah wrote: One thought. If the scripts are only used for reporting, try using Crystal reports. It can do most of what you can achieve using the basic scripts. Nah, they're mainly used for performaing advanced calculations to building a summary table of imported information. For

Re: [DUG]: DB Tree view

1999-03-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a (free prefered with source) data aware tree view component. Does anyone have one? Have you looked at TeeTree from David Berneda (TeeChart)? www.teemach.com --- New Zealand Delphi

[DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
Tony Blomfield wrote: In addition, IMO quick reports is very much simpler to use. Now we have Report Builder Pro, and that is a superb product. It is hard to imagine how Crystal could compete with RB Pro. *yay* another RBPro developer :) I've been using RBPro for a while now and find it to

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
I hate to bring the flogging of dead horses back, as thats just criminally insane. But when this VCL thread started a few days ago, an immediate thought came to mind. Max/Ian have spoken at great lengths decribing how to replaced TEdit and the Grids, I wonder, how much do these new controls

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Steve Peacocke wrote: I've been using QR but will have a looky at this RBPro due to the kind words and warm fuzzies experienced by others here. Steve, don't forget to check out the news.digatal-metaphors.com usenet server, just reading through should be very informative for you as well. Mark

Re: [DUG]: RE: Fixing the VCL (LONG)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Max Nilson wrote: 100% pure GDI and Windows event handling is used in the production of these new controls 8-) Eeek :) I fear to tread on even LOOKING at that code Max :) There are already a couple of OpenSource type efforts underway to do a VCL type library based on one of the X toolkits

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Derricutt
Tony wrote: nice simple report builder to hand on to my customers instead of Crystal, but there does not appear to be much out there. As Steve points out, if Report Builder Pro provides a very nice royalty free end-user report designer. Report formats can be stored in BLOB fields inside a

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-15 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hmm - time to answer my own postings :) Mark Derricutt wrote: This is a worry. Some add on third party things don't keep up with the play. Mark didn't you say earlier you couldn't get this to install? In this case it was I that didn't keep up with the play and installing the latest release

[DUG]: CoolBars...

1999-03-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hiya - whenever I toggle the .Visible property of a CoolBar.Band[x] it appears pushed up on the right hand side of the CoolBar and not visible to the user, does anyone know how to tell it to be stay on-screen? It doesn't seem to have a .left property? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Derricutt

Re: [DUG]: SQL Query...

1999-03-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
wrong type for ConfigurationID which is a straight integer. Any idea how I can force the SELECT to return 1 instead of 1.0? Mark -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chal

Re: [DUG]: SQL Query...

1999-03-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
Mark Derricutt wrote: Unfortunately I get "Type Mismatch in Expression", I assume this is possibly due to attempting to hardcode the value of ConfigurationID. If I run the SELECT portion on its own it works ok, but returns 1 as 1.0 Ok, looking in my "SQL for Dummies" bo

Re: [DUG]: Hints...

1999-04-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
Alistair George wrote: Here is a little bit of code I wrote that may be useful, it does what you want anyway: Thanks, I ended up using the following: var hwin: THintWindow; begin hwin := THintWindow.Create(Self); hwin.Color := clInfoBk; end; and begin if hwin.Caption ml.Caption

Re: [DUG]: R-Builder Pro - dynamic component creation

1999-04-29 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hi, this is some code I use to dynamically make RBPro reports, hope it helps: // Start by creating a blank report ReportCTab.Template.New; ReportCTab.CreateDefaultBands; // Change band heights ReportCTab.HeaderBand.Height := 0.1667 * 5; ReportCTab.DetailBand.Height := 0.1667;

[DUG]: Problem with TScrollBar's

1999-05-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
I've come accross what looks to be a bug with TScrollBars, or atleast, a behaviour I seriously dislike... In a custom component I'm writting, I've created to TScrollBars, to provide scrollability to my drawing canvas. When the scrollbar has the focus, it flashes on and off showing it has the

Re: [DUG]: Problem with TScrollBar's

1999-05-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
The reason you have flashing scroll bars is because you have created them as controls of their own right. This means that they have their own window, and hence they can receive focus. If your custom control is derived from Yup. as I thought. TScrollingWinControl, there is a way for you to

Re: [DUG]: Update SQL Objects

1999-05-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
Could it be that you are missing a pair of double quotes? As in: D."TimeStamp" I've tried putting it in quotes... but I think it'll also be trashing out on the :TimeStamp param Time to change fieldnames I guess :)

Re: [DUG]: Window Titles

1999-05-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
e a ttimer and watch for a change every second or so, which is what I will be doing unless I find a better way. Why does the hook proc. need to be in a DLL? -- Mark Derricutt, Software Engineer PB Power (NZ) Ltd Now Playing... The Flower Kings - Back In The World of

Re: [DUG]: Window Titles

1999-05-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
multiple hard drives and multiple machines, also is the current mp3 is actually a shoutcast stream there IS no file to be open :) -- Mark Derricutt, Software Engineer PB Power (NZ) Ltd Now Playing... The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are (Disc 1

Re: [DUG]: Is the List Alive ??

1999-05-16 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Jeremy Coulter wrote: Its been VERY quite on the list front over the weekedn, and this morning.is all ok ? or is everyone still celebrating the Canterburys Cursaders brilliant win on the wekeend ?? Well the list seems to be alive (I got this message), which is more

[DUG]: DBGrids...

1999-05-26 Thread Mark Derricutt
untill they click on it... Is there a way to stop the current record changing with the scroll bar? Or should I change the app to update the detail in say an onclick event (not how I really wish to handle it thou) Mark -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) WinAMP Now Playing

Re: [DUG]: Version Control Wanted

1999-06-03 Thread Mark Derricutt
l no doubt be VERY handy when code is being updated from off-site. And to think, all it took was 2 lines of configuration to enable to client/server ness of CVS. -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) WinAMP Now Playing... Far Beyond the

Re: [DUG]: Version Control Wanted

1999-06-03 Thread Mark Derricutt
for). Yup, it's all goood, and free :) -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) WinAMP Now Playing... Movement II The truth - Winamp --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: Is it Still ComCtl32.dll Problem?

1999-06-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Tony Goodrich wrote: We have been doing some Y2K tests and have found that we can crash a PC using a datetimepicker. Unless you useversion 5.8 of COMCTL32.DLL which ships with IE5. Damm, you mean I -have- to install IE5? :( heh. -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd

RE: [DUG]: System tray.

1999-06-13 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Patrick Dunford wrote: Once you call the Hide method of the main form then it disappears completely. Hiding the main form isn't what you really want, you want to hide the application window, I use: ShowWindow(Application.Handle, SW_HIDE); Which does it. -- Mark

[DUG]: TListView's...

1999-06-29 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hi, I'm displaying a list of items in a listview (report mode) with several columns that I want the user to be able to edit. Initially I had a seperate form with edit/combo boxes that gave the user options to select from, which works, but isn't elegent... However, I'm finding now that I have

[DUG]: SQL Joins...

1999-06-30 Thread Mark Derricutt
= :Object) AND (d.Object = d1.Object) AND (d1.Attribute = d3.Attribute) ORDER BY D.Object, d3.Attribute, d3.Method -- Mark Derricutt --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DUG]: FieldByName

1999-07-05 Thread Mark Derricutt
throughout. Then in your Get/Set code handle the lookup anyway you want, and just refer to the property with Object.Prop['Something']; -- Mark Derricutt --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED

[DUG]: SQL Dates/Times

1999-07-07 Thread Mark Derricutt
After the recent discussion on formatting dates for SQL, I've just come accross a similiar need, however, I need to use a date/time in sql to search on a timestamp field. Whats the correct formatting for a date/time combination in SQL? -- Mark Derricutt

Re: [DUG]: SQL Dates/Times

1999-07-07 Thread Mark Derricutt
--On Thursday, July 08, 1999, 11:11 AM +1200 Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the correct formatting for a date/time combination in SQL? "1-Jan-1998 12:30:00 AM" works :-) w00p. --- New Zeal

Re: [DUG]: Date/Time controls

1999-07-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
--On Monday, July 12, 1999, 11:41 AM +1200 Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a form I have two TDateTimePicker components, one set to date, one set to time, whats the easiest way to get a combined TDateTime variable that has the Date of one, and the Time of the other? Hmm, I

RE: [DUG]: Date/Time controls

1999-07-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
--On Monday, July 12, 1999, 11:56 AM +1200 Wes Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: myDateTime := int(myDate) + frac(myTime); Ahh sweet :) --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[DUG]: Trapping field changes

1999-07-20 Thread Mark Derricutt
I have a table in a DBGrid that I'm allowing the user to edit, however, I want to trap modifications to the field "POINTS", so that I can update other tables that refer to the edited record, with what the user has just edited. Can I use multiple UpdateQueries, or put multiple SQL statesments in

[DUG]: DBGrid Columns

1999-07-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
I have a TColum which is ownerdraw, the problem I'm having is that if a user clicks into this column, the in-place-editor pops up and shows the field data underneath it, the column is read-only, but that doesn't stop the i.p.e. Does anyone know how I can stop the editor showing up for this

[DUG]: string replace

1999-07-25 Thread Mark Derricutt
Is there any functions in delphi for string replacing? I want to have a string with certain tokens that get replaced, i.e. "%user logged in at %now.". I initially thought I could just use Format() and %s's but that means I need to always have the same amount of params in the string, which I

RE: [DUG]: string replace

1999-07-25 Thread Mark Derricutt
--On Monday, July 26, 1999, 2:07 PM +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the StringReplace function. New to Delphi 4. Ooo :=) Isn't that nice :-) Thanks. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 1934853 Mobil: +64-21-216-5062 "Sweet Refractor, I'm indebted to you..." CoD98. NP: All Too Human -

RE: [DUG]: Corbar Server

1999-07-25 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jeremy Coulter wrote: well I used to think is was COBRA.which SOUNDS better that CORBA..hehehe Cor brutha... that sounds hip :-) (sorry, I had to he made me, honestly). -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) Getting giggy with Mic

[DUG]: loaded method...

1999-07-27 Thread Mark Derricutt
this worked under D3. -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) Getting jiggy with Deuteronomium - Spell of Hell --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website

RE: [DUG]: loaded method...

1999-07-27 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Kerry Sainsbury wrote: You are wrong (sorry).'Default' values get set in the constructor. There is nothing for the properties to be 'loaded' from when you're It's not the first time I've been wrong, and most likely not the last... :-) -- Mark Derricutt, PB

RE: [DUG]: loaded method...

1999-07-27 Thread Mark Derricutt
at the time of setDatabase being called. Everything works now so it doesn't really matter tooo much. I reworked how I was using the component and am now using the instance on the main form, not sure why I was creating a tempory instance now... Hrm. Mark -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http

Re: [DUG]: SMTP

1999-08-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter G Jones wrote: Can anyone reccommend a simple, easy to understand, liteweight SMTP server that I can send to from Delphi and read using Outlook express or some other client. Any other suggestions accepted gratefully. Why not use your ISP's upstream smtp server?

Re: [DUG]: SMTP

1999-08-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter G Jones wrote: Well, yes, of course. Duh me. For xtra this is smtp.xtra.co.nz ...? That should be the server. However, depending on how you're setup at xtra's end, they may not allow users from your domain to send email through there server (spam relaying), but

[DUG]: TreeViews and Popup Menus

1999-08-04 Thread Mark Derricutt
the popup menu on the mouse down/up events with no luck, has anyone come accross this before? -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) Getting jiggy with Eternal Decision - Overflow --- New Zealand Delphi

Re: [DUG]: Something like Delphi's Menu Designer at run time?

1999-08-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
menu designer, is there any way we can use it in our own applications so what we can give our users a menu designer? -- Mark Derricutt, PB Power NZ Ltd (http://www.pbpower.net) Getting jiggy with Skid Row-04-Quicksand Jesus

Re: [DUG]: Bitmaps again

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Alistair George wrote: Since bitmap is a pointer to the same memory location it should be ok right? My take on this is that you would now have a memory leak :) You'd have two TBitmap objects in memory, with only a pointer to one of them. Mark -- Mark Derricutt

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Grant Black wrote: Any word on when it is exepcted in NZ? I have the 60 day D5 Trial CD is anyone wants a copy :) (Hmmm, is this trial legally distributable at all? Nic?) -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New

RE: [DUG]: Delphi 5

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Nahum Wild wrote: I last heard 'Beginingish of next month'. Next month being September. According to the borland.* ng's they were all released to manufacturing the other week, so very soon I say... -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
. -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chalice.gen.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]| UIN: 1934853 Getting jiggy with Metanoia - Time To Die

Re: [DUG]: Tool Tips

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
in one of my comps for hints. Mark -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chalice.gen.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]| UIN: 1934853 Getting jiggy

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
are agreeing to the foregoing and you are representing and warranting that you are not located in, under control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. I don't think I'm in any of those countries :) Mark -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice

RE: [DUG]: Delphi 5

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Coulter, Jeremy wrote: yeah lets slap mark around either way.hahahahahajust kidding Hey no fair Thats it, you're not getting that CDR :) -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music

RE: CORBA (was Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components.)

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Derricutt
as its a not a normal borland "30 second click click done - look how kick ar*e delphi is" type thing, as that doesn't really show me much. And as alot of people know, for us mere "users", it's not always that simple to get started with :) Mark -- Mark Derricutt

[DUG]: copy to clipboard...

1999-09-07 Thread Mark Derricutt
free tempBitmap, should I be doing something different? Mark -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chalice.gen.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]| UIN: 1934853

Re: [DUG]: Reason to buy Visual Fox Pro

1999-09-08 Thread Mark Derricutt
just access the server via ADO or what? BDE? -- Mark Derricutt - Software Developer - http://www.chalice.gen.nz Getting jiggy with no audio cd present --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DUG]: MSDE 1.0

1999-09-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
() function with a query component? It's very handy and I wish I could do it. -- Mark Derricutt - Software Developer - http://www.chalice.gen.nz Getting jiggy with no audio cd present --- New Zealand Delphi Users group

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5

1999-09-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
is completely fictitous. I think the discliamer that Kerry put on this post gave the humerousness away a bit :P -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chalice.gen.nz

Re: [DUG]: One button or two

1999-09-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
:) -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chalice.gen.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]| UIN: 1934853 Getting jiggy with no audio cd present

RE: [DUG]: One button or two

1999-09-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
(www.gtk.org) is the Gimp Toolkit, which is a nice new widget set used in The Gimp (www.gimp.org) which is a graphics program (similiar to Photoshop, only free and open source). -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music

Re: [DUG]: XTools

1999-09-13 Thread Mark Derricutt
- very good wee tool. -- Mark Derricutt - Software Developer - http://www.chalice.gen.nz Getting jiggy with no audio cd present --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website

Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ

1999-09-15 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Nic Wise wrote: Definatly 4, most likely 3. You should be able to cross grade if _nothing_ else. I have D2 Developer, would I have to crossgrade to D5, or could I upgrade? (not that I'm in any financial position at the moment to do either... but would be good to know).

Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Richard Vowles wrote: Its a perfect reason to suggest that anyone buying Delphi now gets Maintenance Its around 30 or 40% I know, but It means you get the next one free. Mmmm, I guess one reason why I think not many people think of going for Maintenance, is that

Re: [DUG]: IMAP and developer.href component search

1999-09-16 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Nic Wise wrote: And at the same time. anyone know of a good - or even the existance of - an IMAP4 control POP3 just doesn't cut it anymore... If you find one... gimme :) -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer

Re: [DUG]: MSDE

1999-09-19 Thread Mark Derricutt
features and guff in D5. I'm surprised there hasn't been one done. Oh and dont forget the pizzas ! :P Mark -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http

RE: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Derricutt
/shareware item. There's things like ViCouS that are written in Delphi, but i'm not sure if they use CVS (as in a CVS pserver client/server system). -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand

Re: [DUG]: MSDE and DUG Auckland Meeting

1999-09-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Nic Wise wrote: Since when was I doing MIDAS??? Since *now* I guess :P -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http://www.chalice.gen.nz [EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: DUG Auckland Meeting

1999-09-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
features of Delphi 5 and TeamSource shown, would be a good insentive to consider bugging my boss about the upgrade :) Mark -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New Zealand Christian Music News Auckland, New Zealand | http

[DUG]: Command line compilering...

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Derricutt
expected but string constant found SteamfieldManager.bpg(4) Error: Illegal character in input file: '!' ($21) SteamfieldManager.bpg(5) Error: Illegal character in input file: '\' ($5C) etc. etc. etc. -- Mark Derricutt | Chalice of Blood Software Developer | New

Re: [DUG]: FW: Get Ready for the Delphi Live Chat!

1999-09-24 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Crowe wrote: Something maybe worth being part of? The problem is they don't mention HOW the chat is gong operate, irc? webchat? or what? Mark --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi

Re: [DUG]: Delphi/C++B for Linux 'announced'

1999-09-27 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Nic Wise wrote: For the 2 of you who dont read /. I'll see if I can get some more info out of the US on this one. /me puts his name down for a beta tester :)) I wonder what Inprise plan to support, the name Kylix (who thought of THAT) seems to imply a possible KDE base,

Re: [DUG]: Decoding GIF's in New Zealand

1999-09-28 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Alistair George wrote: There are implimentations of the GIF format which supports LZW-less compression using GIF compatible RLE encoding. This makes it possible to create GIFs without paying royalties to Unisys! What about decoding them thou? Are the royalties only on

Re: [DUG]: Auckland DUG Meeting

1999-09-30 Thread Mark Derricutt
man... and the omst important of these the pizza by far :) -- Mark Derricutt - Software Developer - http://www.chalice.gen.nz Getting jiggy with The Tea Party - Triptych in NZ (bootleg) --- New Zealand Delphi Users

[DUG]: Dream Scripting components

1999-10-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Has anyone here used the Dream Scripting components? The docs say that I should be able to reference my forms in my script, and whilst it doesn't crash, I can't seem do to the set the forms caption with form1.caption := 'blah'; any ideas? -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic

Re: [DUG]: streaming system and inherited DFM

1999-10-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Neven MacEwan wrote: inherited ActiveTCL1: TActiveTCL Nothing to do with your existing question, but what is ActiveTCL? TCL scripting comps for delphi? -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic life. Getting jiggy with Type O Negative - World Coming Down

[DUG]: Escaping % in Format()

1999-10-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
anything in the helpfiles for Format() about how to escape the % char, help? :P -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic life. Getting jiggy with Type O Negative - World Coming Down --- New Zealand Delphi Users

Re: [DUG]: Escaping % in Format()

1999-10-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Kieron Lawson wrote: Couldn't you do Format('%s', ['%']) Yeh, I did, but Ive just change the function so I dont need to :) I was just wondering how you escape it... :) -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic life. Getting jiggy with Type O Negative - World

RE: [DUG]: URL links

1999-10-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Wilfred Verkley wrote: shellExecute (0, 'open', 'mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=App%20Version%20Bug', '', '', SW_SHOW); Thanks, mmm, delphi's complaining shellExecute is an unknown identifier :(

[DUG]: Getting Disc Serial Numbers

1999-10-17 Thread Mark Derricutt
whats in the drive, and it keeps getting the wrong thing now :( Does anyone know if theres any multi-media specific functions I shuld be using to get this information? -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic life. Getting jiggy with Tori Amos - to venus and back - venus orbiting

Re: [DUG]: Getting Disc Serial Numbers

1999-10-18 Thread Mark Derricutt
they work, nothing about how to get the Serial number of the disc. Mark -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic life. Now Playing: no audio cd present --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL

[DUG]: Property Editors and other properties...

1999-10-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
the linked component and return the value of one of its properties. Is it possible? -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth electronic life. Now Playing: Timothy Pure - Blood Of The Berry --- New Zealand Delphi Users grou

RE: [DUG]: Property Editors and other properties...

1999-10-21 Thread Mark Derricutt
doing, I see that you're assuming that the TAdrockCalenderSettignsComponent is on the form as TAdrockDateTime (if I'm not mistaken), which is not always going to be the case, as in my case where my components link to a master component in another unit. Mark -- Mark Derricutt, He that brings forth

Re: [DUG]: ADO V BDE

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
. Does anyone know if Borland intend, or if we can badger them into writing, an ADO provider for Paradox 7 tables? -- Mark Derricutt Now Playing: Par Lind Project - Live in America - Disc 1 --- New Zealand Delphi Users

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mark Derricutt wrote: Excuse me Mr Borland, but WHEN exactly did you add editor macros to the IDE I'm not sure how many people know this, but CTRL-SHIFT-R starts/stops recording, and CTRL-SHIFT-P plays back the macro! This is in D4 I'm using, so I'm assuming D5 has

Re: [DUG]: Scripting??

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
, activecobol) and they also provide a DelphiScript module, for writing scripts in object pascal, with access to full tquery's and stuff, very nice. -- Mark Derricutt Now Playing: Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth --- New

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Nic Wise wrote: Been there since D3, I think. Undocumented. :( I found it in the docs just now, in the ide section, can't remember HOW i got there thou G -- Mark Derricutt Now Playing: Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth

RE: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Nahum Wild wrote: If only we can save macros and assign them to keys. Anyone heard of QEdit? Now there is an editor!! Dos only unfortunatly. Mmmm yes :-) QEdit was good in its days... I actually like emacs as well :-) Even if its overkill for most things. -- Mark

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Greg Amer wrote: Ever heard of vim or even vi now there is an editor!!! vi(m) is something I dread, but it's a godsend to know the commands to operate it :-) vim is good because it adds syntax highlighting for sourcecode... -- Mark Derricutt Now Playing: Blind Guardian

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
are the neandethal's (sp?) :P /me reads more interesting NTBUGTRAQ posts about new NT exploits :-) say bye bye server -- Mark Derricutt Now Playing: Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth --- New Zealand

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $somevariable = "Hello"; $somevariable++; print $somevariable; The displayed result? "Hellp" Hmmm, that's different :-) I must sometime learn perl properly, beyond that of my irc script :) -- Mark Derricutt Now Pla

RE: [DUG]: WinNT SP6

1999-11-08 Thread Mark Derricutt
Leon Raj wrote: Looks like another "even" numbered disaster. With NT4 being even numbered itself, i'm not surprised :) -- Mark Derricutt - Software Developer - http://www.chalice.gen.nz Getting jiggy with Angra -

Re: [DUG]: TADOQuery

1999-11-08 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Neven MacEwan wrote: Is this a bug or a feature? Any comments - who do I approach if its a bug I would say it's a bug, which param does ParamByName return? -- Mark Derricutt - Software Developer - http://www.chalice.gen.nz Getting jiggy with Angra - Painkiller

[DUG]: D5 and D4

1999-11-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
, every's safe and goodo aint it? -- "I love you, you love me, Bill's a bad monopoly..." ...as heard in shadows bar. Mark Derricutt Now Playing: VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater --- New Zealand Delphi Users grou

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