Re: [DUG]: AutoComplete

2000-07-25 Thread Nic Wise
There is something on borland.com about this - in the TI's section I think. Its pretty much as easy as adding 2 message calls on keypress and such. yell if you can't find it - I have a component, but I dont know where it is now :) N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inprise

RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...

2000-07-24 Thread Nic Wise
Nice idea - check the IB license tho - it specifically mentionsconnection "reuse" systems ala MIDAS - you still have to license by USER, not by CONNECTION. Natch, IB6 gets rid of THAT little problem. N --Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealandmain line: 0

RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...

2000-07-24 Thread Nic Wise
nope - free w/o source in beta, free with source when its released, which is supposed to be REALLY soon. N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[DUG]: interesting...

2000-07-24 Thread Nic Wise
for those who have not seen it - Delphi Free Version Control System. Custom "format", hits IB/MSSQL/Oracle/DBISAM, appears rather cool. http://www.thensle.de/index.htm N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6

RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...

2000-07-24 Thread Nic Wise
ted DB out there...! And I think its mandrake - my prefered distro of RedH^H^H^H^H Linux - that is putting 6.0 on their CD, hopefully getting rid of the abortion that is MySQL. N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 0

RE: [DUG]: HTML Creation

2000-07-24 Thread Nic Wise
We are just in the process of starting to look at how to creating web pages out of Delphi. We have a copy of Mastering Delphi by Marco Cantu with an sample program (see below) for creating as sample web page with the current time on the fly. Dude, dont waste your time with CGI - its not

RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...

2000-07-24 Thread Nic Wise
You guys are a bunch on pedants! yes, but not as bad as the "people" on slashdot, tho :) Free as in MSDE has got to be better than dBase/Paradox/Jet.. the product is better, BUT you have to either buy 1100$ worth of Office 2000 PER USER or however much an office 2000 developer "pack"

Re: [DUG]: IB 5.6

2000-07-22 Thread Nic Wise
Hello Nic. Please would you mind telling this less informed people like myself where we should go to get Interbase 5.6 multi-user? http://www.interbase.com/open/downloads/5x_eval_kits.html then, buy keys/licenses from inprise as needed. Call 09-3600231 to get them. OR you can get it all on a

RE: [DUG]: ADO+

2000-07-17 Thread Nic Wise
I thought you could always do this in Access and VB, something like: IF TotalCost Customer#AvailableCredit or something similar??? Maybe that was DAO, or ADO, or Jet :) N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell

RE: [DUG]: Briefcase Model

2000-07-16 Thread Nic Wise
try: C:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi5\Demos\Midas\Brfcase I kinda guess that would do the trick. Its not hard - just add a filename to the clientdataset, and use applyupdates and do something about resolving any errors when you post the changes back. :) N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6

2000-07-16 Thread Nic Wise
- as it runs about 1.5-2x the speed of NT, especially under load. Nic. -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter Sent

RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6

2000-07-16 Thread Nic Wise
management and task scheduling is! N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerermy Coulter Sent: Monday, 17 July

RE: [DUG]: IB 5.6

2000-07-16 Thread Nic Wise
the MS FUD machine wins again :( N - RHCE :) -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerermy Coulter Sent: Monday, 17 July

RE: [DUG]: Briefcase Model

2000-07-16 Thread Nic Wise
://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20870,00.html Basically, if you communicate accross the wire, you need to pay for a license - if you just use local CDS's then you dont. HTH. Nic. -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418

Re: [DUG]: Midas again

2000-07-12 Thread Nic Wise
why not get a bunch of ID's when the user "undocks", or give the app -'ve keys until its synched with the main DB? N - Original Message - From: "Phil Scadden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:07 PM Subject:

RE: [DUG]: FormCreate problems

2000-07-10 Thread Nic Wise
- Settings easy. And while you are at it, get a copy of GetRight - makes downloading painless. N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: How do I get new forms to not default to auto-create

2000-07-05 Thread Nic Wise
with Interfaces, which I just luv. N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carl Reynolds Sent: Thursday, 6 July

[DUG]: MIDAS

2000-07-05 Thread Nic Wise
t that), and Richard or myself about anything of a technical nature. Nic. -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 --- New Zealand Delphi Users

RE: [DUG]: SQL

2000-07-04 Thread Nic Wise
Jo was not on the list - the only person from his/her domain was a "Chris", who is still on. Jo has been told about this - I'm guessing its a problem at their end. N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Origin

RE: [DUG]: Midas

2000-07-04 Thread Nic Wise
can dredge up out of our database of who's doing what (ie, Annie's head) :) N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leo Ramakers Sent: Wednesday

RE: [DUG]: Deferenced nil pointers AV

2000-06-25 Thread Nic Wise
Do MS-SQL, Interbase, Postgress, etc suffer the same limitation. Interbase returns the 1 row its supposed to, BUT IB is also known to be SQL compliant to a fault, like the implementation of ROLES which are, for lack of a better word, useless - but are in the SQL92 standard. N

RE: [DUG]: Deferenced nil pointers AV

2000-06-25 Thread Nic Wise
(ps It is heartening to see Nic has gaibned some objectivity toward IB) Well, objectivity where its required - Interbase is NOT prefect, but its got, IMO, a lot less problems than other databases, when taken in context (eg, its not ever going to handle 1000's of users, AFAIK). N

[DUG]: ping.

2000-06-11 Thread Nic Wise
Pong? And no, dont reply. Just DONT. N -- Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418 --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [DUG]: one time authentication

2000-06-05 Thread Nic Wise
-- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he not disappoint the ladies in the village? --Alexi Sayle

RE: [DUG]: Kylix Screenshots

2000-05-23 Thread Nic Wise
No, sorry - not at the moment - the NDA's are so thick, I could crush a few cockroaches with them. Sorry - unless it comes out of the US first, we can't say anything :( N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who

RE: [DUG]: Interbase

2000-05-23 Thread Nic Wise
have you made it read only/single user? (ie, shutdown in IBManager). Can you give some more details? N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he

RE: [DUG]: Kylix Screenshots

2000-05-23 Thread Nic Wise
No, sorry - not at the moment - the NDA's are so thick, I could crush a few cockroaches with them. I'll sign a NDA - I just wanna see what it looks like :) Nice try - we can't. Yet. /me pouts like a disguntled and fustrated slashdot reader. I thought you were a /. reader :) N

RE: [DUG]: Interbase

2000-05-23 Thread Nic Wise
Ditto if you are using 5.6 and you are using an EVAL key (ie, if you installed it from Delphi with a key of "eval".). If so: 1) get 6.0 if you dont wanna pay for it and can handle beta software 2) call Inprise 09-3600231 and buy a key :) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [DUG]: Interbase

2000-05-23 Thread Nic Wise
I am gathering from that the the IB client is just that, it only connects as a client to a server and by itself cannot read Interbase files? Assuming that was a question, yes, you are right. The client has no clue about the file format. N

RE: [DUG]: Accessing The Registry

2000-05-21 Thread Nic Wise
c location, or the registry. Could I bodge it and instantiate TApplication an extract the path from that? No idea. you could try it, tho I doubt it would work. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all hi

RE: [DUG]: Accessing The Registry

2000-05-21 Thread Nic Wise
Thanks Nic, I can read the registry now. Not a silly idea Steve though, it may not be wise accessing the registry in any way via a dll on the internet. Why not? If you are worrying about security, your end users never get access to it, unless you have a form like: Regkey: input field

RE: [DUG]: Accessing The Registry

2000-05-21 Thread Nic Wise
What about if I was hosting your site (and its DLL's) on my web server along with a few hundred other sites? The DLL should not be able to screw with the registry which could take down the entire machine or even worse, read passwords or other stored data from other web sites that may hosted

RE: [DUG]: Accessing The Registry

2000-05-21 Thread Nic Wise
First rule of web hosting: NEVER EVER allow ISAPI dll's. Yes, but do people sitting down churning out a lovely web app know that? They should - would you start writing your app before looking at where its going to be hosted? It's not until they go to deploy the app they get evil looks

[DUG]: for those who wanted to know

2000-05-21 Thread Nic Wise
e biz", but my father :) ) that when it is said "Inprise lost $10mil on last years figures" it normally means something like: last years profit: 15million this years profit: 5million Which should be translated as "we didn't make as much as last year, but we still made a profit&

RE: [DUG]: Accessing The Registry

2000-05-21 Thread Nic Wise
OK, I not a Microsoft supporter (Hey, I program in Delphi :-) but I haven't had the time or resource to sit down and learn more about linux that I already know. I agree that NT security (sorry, oxymoronic) is crap but it's a system most of the world knows about. The ISAPI stuff being

RE: [DUG]: So what do people think of the Corel/Inprise/Borland not thing?

2000-05-19 Thread Nic Wise
Unfortunately, having the best products does not gaurentee a successful business. If I was a share holder in Borland, I would be mighty p.o'd with the company - too many changes, too little profit. Problem is, look who was doing the buying!! Not exactly a cash-rich, going-up company...

RE: [DUG]: So what do people think of the Corel/Inprise/Borland not thing?

2000-05-19 Thread Nic Wise
Dont forget windows - QT is VERY cross platform. Also, dont forget that most of the work in a _compiler_ is targetting the code generator to the CPU - not an easy task, especially on a RISC chip. Delphi is not just a compiler tho N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise

RE: [DUG]: So what do people think of the Corel/Inprise/Borland not thing?

2000-05-18 Thread Nic Wise
Not knowing anything about the differences between the different flavours of UNIX, how hard would it be to modify Kylix to compile programs for other UNIX OS's? Should be easier, but the main hard part is the code generator, and optimising it. Unix in general runs on lots of different

[DUG]: FYI: IBX update on www.interbase.com

2000-05-16 Thread Nic Wise
go to the interbase downloads and follow your nose. Delphi 5 update pack 1 required first tho. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he

RE: [DUG]: So what do people think of the Corel/Inprise/Borland not thing?

2000-05-16 Thread Nic Wise
r than Richard), I'd be a happy camper - my 4 favourate products (Delphi, IB, JBuilder, AppServer) on all the platforms I give a toss about (Windows and Linux). Just my 2c. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all

RE: [DUG]: Delphi5 and no BDE

2000-05-15 Thread Nic Wise
. Also of note: Delphi 5 STANDARD includes NO DATABASE CONNECTIVITY AT ALL - no BDE, no data aware controls, nothing. You need Pro or Enterprise to get that. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his

RE: [DUG]: Delphi5 and no BDE

2000-05-15 Thread Nic Wise
Nic, I'm guessing that James is referring to the TClientDataset. I've heard that it saves a local copy of the data as a DBF (although I have no idea if this is the full story, or even if it's true). Since I don't use this I dont think so - I think it saves it in an internal format, tho it

RE: [DUG]: Thread and ASp

2000-05-15 Thread Nic Wise
Here we go again, I am investigating using object pooling in Win2000 because I need to create a link to a mainframe system and there is a delay of ~1.5 secs. I am planning to create the link during the initialization and store the handle in a private variable. At present I am storing a

RE: [DUG]: Thread and ASp

2000-05-15 Thread Nic Wise
pplication object for a unused connection. Sounds like a more feasable solution. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and,

RE: [DUG]: Windows 2000

2000-05-07 Thread Nic Wise
HI all, Just curious if many people have moved up to Windows 2000, and what incompatibilities have been found. I use Infopower 4.0 and found a problem with the Richtext component. And have to upgrade to Infopower 2000. Anyone else with horror stories? How about an Anti-horror story.

RE: [DUG]: Windows 2000

2000-05-07 Thread Nic Wise
I guess I am not up to day. Is CD-writing built into Windows now ? The way we currenctly use it (on NT/95/98) - software coming with the cd-writeable drive does all the job and no OS is involved as far as I know. Nah, its not built in. I'm just using Easy CD creator Pro 4.0 (might be the

RE: [DUG]: Declare const object

2000-05-07 Thread Nic Wise
In any case, type TTest = object public AValue: Integer; end; implementation const TTest_Null: TTest = (AValue: 0); Does not create an object that is readonly. It is merely a form of initialization for the object. You can still assign

RE: [DUG]: progmatically adding users to an IB database

2000-05-07 Thread Nic Wise
www.interbase.dthomas.co.uk has stuff on this, AFAIK. You need something to encrypt the password with - thats the hard bit, but its "only" 3DES. IB6 has API's to do this :) (along with backup, restore etc) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland N

RE: [DUG]: Sockets..

2000-05-07 Thread Nic Wise
Hi people, just a follow up to my earlier post. What is the best connection method (set of components?) using TCP\IP (or not??) No need to step outside of the IP family, and as _everyone_ uses it these days (that arn't running on a default 95 install) That can do the following. 1.

RE: [DUG]: ADO recordset = nil

2000-05-04 Thread Nic Wise
face) Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he not disappoint the ladies in the village? --A

RE: [DUG]: BorCon Tutorials Revisited

2000-05-03 Thread Nic Wise
Thats kinda he idea of coming and paying :). (Of course, if your in Christchurch, or rather, not in AK or WLG, then it would be a little difficult to do. I'll talk to Annie and see what she has to say) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand

[DUG]: Seminars in Christchurch

2000-05-03 Thread Nic Wise
should really register for and go to the seminar. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he

RE: [DUG]: Seminars in Christchurch

2000-05-03 Thread Nic Wise
Please advise price for the material. Sorry, we havn't decided IF we will do it (or if we can), but its looking quite likely. I'd expect it to be about $99 for both tho - as I said, nothing is decided yet. N --- New

RE: [DUG]: BorCon Tutorials Revisited

2000-05-03 Thread Nic Wise
for sales, training, some tech support (its mostly handled thru Australia and an 0800 number), etc. We may not always be able to answer your question on the spot, but we will definatly try our damdest to get you the infomation you need. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise

RE: [DUG]: Anyone recommend a....

2000-05-02 Thread Nic Wise
yeah, but I was more meaning a TMemo derivative (ie, one can put in an APP via Delphi :) ) Ta for the tip tho. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best

[DUG]: BorCon Tutorials Revisited

2000-05-02 Thread Nic Wise
with classes and objects + common Java language constructs + exception handling + container classes + database connectivity + GUI creation + Javabeans + and more! WEB DEVELOPEMENT WITH DELPHI C++ BUILDER: ======= Presenter: Nic Wise, Inprise New Zealand Prerequisites:

RE: [DUG]: Interbase Queries

2000-05-02 Thread Nic Wise
Yup, I think: select myfield as MyNewFieldName I'm just not sure you can quote it - or put spaces in it. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he

RE: [DUG]: BorCon Tutorials Revisited

2000-05-02 Thread Nic Wise
Whay about it? Seriously, sorry, no Christchurch this time - only Auckland and Wellington. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his

RE: [DUG]: Web server apps with Linux

2000-05-01 Thread Nic Wise
work under Linux 'cos there is no IIS (you write apache DSO's instead, which the marketing in the US seam to be sure that Kylix will support....) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in hi

RE: [DUG]: Web server apps with Linux

2000-05-01 Thread Nic Wise
4) write it all in C/C++ (ouch), or Perl (ouch-er) Hey! PERL rocks! I have wet dreams about Regular Expressions for Delphi - it would make my life sooo much easier :) Well, yeah - there is a RegExp library for Delphi around somewhere, I think. There is definatly a Lex and Yacc 'port'

RE: [DUG]: Web server apps with Linux

2000-05-01 Thread Nic Wise
Thanks for info. 'welcome. Nic - Well no I wasn't joking tho' I was aware that ActiveX wasn't popular in general for web apps.Just a wild question. I thought that the ActiveX code was downloaded to the browser so that if an activex enabled browser was being used then Apache could send the

[DUG]: Anyone recommend a....

2000-05-01 Thread Nic Wise
. :) This is just for a pet project. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he not disappoint the ladies

RE: [DUG]: Distribution

2000-04-30 Thread Nic Wise
Inprise have an office in Auckland. Phone# is 09-3600231, fax: 09-3600384 Sealcorp distribute it, but you buy it from Borland/Inprise. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his

RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??

2000-04-26 Thread Nic Wise
There's another issue with Interbase that people considering a change should be aware of. Interbase's performance when using TTables through the BDE is absolutely abysmal. Um, as far as I know, this is a problem with ANY SQL-based DB (oracle et al). It comes from doing select * from

RE: [DUG]: Java-friendly Database?

2000-04-26 Thread Nic Wise
ell. Not production stable yet (or it wouldn't be beta), but its definatly good enough for development. 5.6 for Linux IS available in release form, tho. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chicken

RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??

2000-04-26 Thread Nic Wise
Um, as far as I know, this is a problem with ANY SQL-based DB (oracle et al). There's abysmal and then there's merely appalling. :) What surprised me is that a simple "select * from tablename" TQuery performed so much better than an equivalent TTable, in Interbase. Can't really compare

RE: [DUG]: OCX Objects ona webpage

2000-04-25 Thread Nic Wise
et based - no need for the BDE, and it goes thru firewalls like a knife thru butter (well, outgoing, anyway :) ) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocat

RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??

2000-04-19 Thread Nic Wise
Odd - the old one (5.6) works just fine - if you say metadata = false (ie, the default), you get everything - all structures, data, stored procs, triggers, definitions for indexes (but not the index - its rebuilt) etc. I'm guessing a big in 6.0b. :) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: Interbase suitable when entry is bulk loads??

2000-04-19 Thread Nic Wise
collection and other usefull things at the same time. FWIW. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he

RE: [DUG]: Interbase suitable when entry is bulk loads??

2000-04-19 Thread Nic Wise
On one of our live sites using SQL server, we do regular (hourly) bulk loads of data without any problems. There is certainly no need to do index rebuilds. Even if you use interbase, surely you do an index rebuild, without having to backup / restore, can't you? Yup, of course you can.

RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??

2000-04-17 Thread Nic Wise
which version of interbase?! N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he not disappoint the ladies

RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??

2000-04-17 Thread Nic Wise
Well, you could stop and start your indexes - except that generally takes more time than a backup and restore, and you get a lot of other benafits with a BU/R anyway. Depends how oftern you are doing bulk uploads :) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand

RE: [DUG]: Interbase problem??

2000-04-17 Thread Nic Wise
There is in 6.0 (beta :) ), but not in 5.x (I assume you mean for backup?) for the index one, I think its an alter table. Bill Karwin's "10 ways to make IB scream" has the details... if you can find it :) N http://www.interbase.com/downloads/makeibscream.pdf -- Nic Wise - 0

[DUG]: work wanted (forward)

2000-04-14 Thread Nic Wise
to this - I dont know anything more about him than this. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he

Re: [DUG]: Component Icons (again)

2000-04-12 Thread Nic Wise
on. Think Matrox G200/G400 (G400 is good with multimonitor), any TNT or TNT2-based card, even the old Matrox Millenium is still a very good accelerator when compared to others on the market (for 2d, anyway). But, expect to pay about $300 (retail) or so. N -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309

RE: [DUG]: Component Icons (again)

2000-04-11 Thread Nic Wise
" monitor @ 800x600 with flicker that could kill a small elephant. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and

RE: [DUG]: Component Icons (again) [Long]

2000-04-11 Thread Nic Wise
the acceleration level - the driver then stops caching the images - tho everything goes slower. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens

RE: [DUG]: Component Icons (again) [Long]

2000-04-11 Thread Nic Wise
I think it was in comctrl32 version before 4.7something, it wouldn't handle large image lists. Its fixed in various patches (Delphi 4.01 I think), but yeah, I remember it too :) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little

RE: [DUG]: Component Icons (again)

2000-04-11 Thread Nic Wise
to rewrite the image list, which means rewriting/cloning every windows control that uses them, which is pretty much all of the new ones. Not a good option, when they dont really have control to fix the problem in the first place. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland N

RE: [DUG]: Active-x

2000-04-06 Thread Nic Wise
instead. Recommend if you do anything like this to use Java applets/classes instead - then at least it is supposed to work in both browsers okay (but again may need minor differences in the libraries). -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand

RE: [DUG]: Active-x

2000-04-06 Thread Nic Wise
for, and failing miserably. BTW, thought about how you get at your data via ActiveX? BDE is a little large (8? 12meg?)... N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] XERXES Software Not speaking for Inprise. I just happen to be here when I write

RE: [DUG]: Win2K + D5 problems

2000-04-03 Thread Nic Wise
can run/debug it. I dunno if you use any external components, but I have access to Raize 2.5c (?) - but thats about it. Nic. -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309 / cell: 021.676.418 / em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- New

Re: [DUG]: Better ISQL Tool

2000-03-30 Thread Nic Wise
ED], dunno if he's still on the list. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he not disappoint

Re:[DUG]: Decision Cube

2000-03-23 Thread Nic Wise
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Re:[DUG]: Decision Cube

2000-03-23 Thread Nic Wise
, but what exactly does PHB stand for? Pointy Haired Boss - the boss in Dilbert - usually means someone who is responsible for making the decisions, but has NO IDEA about anything N -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309 / cell: 021.676.418 / em: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re:[DUG]: Interbase Distribution

2000-03-18 Thread Nic Wise
s with ADO too), but its fairly complex. I dont have an installed version of IB around at the moment, so I can't check the docs and license, but have a read of it, and ask us (Inprise) if in doubt. I'll have a look on monday when I'm in the office and see what I can find. N -- Nic Wise - Human

[DUG]: round trip test

2000-03-11 Thread Nic Wise
Ignore this. Yes, that means DONT REPLY TO IT! N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he

RE: [DUG]: Installation problem - 2

2000-03-09 Thread Nic Wise
hi4 and go from there. Nic. -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309 / cell: 021.676.418 / em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

[DUG]: Kylix article on borland.com and /.

2000-03-09 Thread Nic Wise
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21171,00.html a 'discussion' from Danny Thorpe, tho is a Senior RD Engineer on Kylix (and Delphi 6). Worth a read. slashdot.org has the usual discussion, but I'm thinking the quality of it is going to be low, in typical slashdot style. N -- Nic Wise

Re: [DUG]: RE: ADUG: What is a .dsm file?

2000-03-08 Thread Nic Wise
m if you like, they get remade when you rebuild anyway. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, wil

Re: [DUG]: Couldn't Resist

2000-02-28 Thread Nic Wise
Please DO resist next time, and post JUST the URL. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he

Re: [DUG]: more questions

2000-02-27 Thread Nic Wise
WOO HOO!!! That'll do nicely, thanks Chris!! Very much appreciated. Not I just have to abstract that out into a base form :) (also, thanks to everyone else who suggested solutions - your all wounderfull :) ) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand

[DUG]: more questions

2000-02-24 Thread Nic Wise
selector is fine, but the edit control is, well, crap. I want similar functionallity on a TSpeedButton (ie, drop the calendar down, allow the user to select a date, hide it again). Anyone know how to make it pop up, ala a pop-up menu? The source is not exactly easy to follow. TIA. N -- Nic Wise

Re: [DUG]: more questions

2000-02-24 Thread Nic Wise
rhaps not as pretty as the TDateTimePicker, but it is free and the source is followable H, I think I will now :) N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he not suffocate his chic

Re:[DUG]: SQL7 Triggers...

2000-02-24 Thread Nic Wise
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Re:[DUG]: Delphi positions

2000-02-24 Thread Nic Wise
Odd - either list is OK tho - especially for job offers. N (Nic, I did send this to the offtopic list first but it doesn't seem to be responding?) -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309 / cell: 021.676.418 / em: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re:[DUG]: Multitier/ Midas questions

2000-02-24 Thread Nic Wise
VisiForDelphi. easy :) I just program to an interface and a set of records rather than a database connection. Gimme a shout off the list (or on it :) ) if you want more info. N -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309 / cell: 021.676.418 / em: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[DUG]: window showing problem.

2000-02-23 Thread Nic Wise
Hi people, anyone know the answer to this one: myForm := TMyForm.create(application); myForm.show; ... but no button on the task bar, and I can't ALT-TAB to it. Any idea how to make it so I can atleast alt-tab to it?!?! Ta N -- Nic Wise - Human (just) ph: 09.277.5309 / cell

Re: [DUG]: Example wanted of using a WebClass in Delphi

2000-02-23 Thread Nic Wise
What, pray tell, is a web class!?!? Personally, I'd be included to go with ASP and ASP objects (written in Delphi). Just IMO tho. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will he

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 and cached updates with Interbase

2000-02-23 Thread Nic Wise
UM, afaik, it works fine - both with the BDE and with IBX, tho I havnb't personally tried it. You can also use client data sets for the same purpose, with more control (or so the help says). N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps

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