Paul,
Just an observation. If you force an exception for testing, you will
find that VCL does not like this construct. You will get 2 to 5 more
exceptions of nasty sorts. :-)
On 10 Jun 99 at 11:40, Marshall, Paul wrote:
If you edit the project's DPR file thus, frmSplash will appear while
Just an observation from one of my very old apps. The next Y2K
like crisis is on 2047. Can anyone figure out why ? :-)
Regards
Rohit
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PH(649)
Chris,
Did that produce any workable results ? I have seen other apps use
the environment variables to figure it out.
On 9 Jun 99 at 8:41, Chris Crowe wrote:
Hi all
Can anyone (more than one would be great) create a new app and put the code
below in and tell me what version gets
John,
I believe that this does not function under NT, but dont quote me on
it. What I do know is that they have stuffed up environment handling
and errorlevel handling. Probably deliberately to kill dos apps.
On 8 Jun 99 at 15:57, John Christenhusz wrote:
Hi folks,
It may look like an
One easy way is to use a database that supports an autoincrement
field.
Another one is to have a third proggy that communicates via messages
and acts as a number dispenser.
On 1 Jun 99 at 11:33, Jason Webb wrote:
I hope someone has some ideas as I'm stuck.
I have a situation where two
Is there any way to force edit-controls to pull in modified values
from internal buffers. Any FieldByName.updates do not reflect into
edit-controls.
Rohit
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CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL, New
STarted with D2.
On 26 May 99 at 14:02, Peter Hyde wrote:
Rohit wrote:
I have recovered now, but the uninstall had done a thorough job -
for eg, it removed registry links to dpr, pas, dpk, rpt etc etc even
though I still have D1 and D3 installed and those links were not even
pointing
I am adding lines to a TMemo and it scrolls as they are added. I do
set the cursor at the end of the process to the start of the memo.
But I dont want it to scroll during the add.
Any ideas ?
Enabled := false/true block just makes the text grey and it still
scrolls.
If I add all the
Chris,
My suggestion is to break down your bitmap into a number of
components and rewrite the code to update only whatis changed.
On 27 May 99 at 12:43, Chris Crowe wrote:
If an application attempts to draw within a locked window, the system =
records the extent of the attempted operation
Yes another warning. I just uninstalled D2 and it wiped all registry
entries including D3 ones... Now I have to spend hours fixing it.
How can a programmer be so stupid. :-(
Rohit
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CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21
Alistair I did reboot. I had to get rid of it as I dont use it and I
needed another 60M on that drive to install SP5. I didnt find out
till hours and several reboots later.
I have recovered now, but the uninstall had done a thorough job -
for eg, it removed registry links to dpr, pas, dpk,
Max, there is. But everyone installs components in different
drives/directories etc. This is a classic example of why
Using the registry is a bad idea. I couldnt restore from tape backup
without removing SP5.
On 26 May 99 at 11:43, Max Renshaw-Fox wrote:
You haven't got another profile /
which is all DCOM is
anyway...
- Original Message -
From: Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 20 May 1999 16:01
Subject: [DUG]: Remote Execution
Whats the easiest way to let a workstation execute an app
Chris, in that situation I use the dfm-to-txt converter and then a
proggie called snr (search and replace) to go through all pas and
txt
files and then convert txt-to-dfm. Thats how I have handled the
various migrations D1-D2-D3 as well.
On 14 May 99 at 10:23, Carl Reynolds wrote:
This
Have a look at the method called Notification
On 18 May 99 at 11:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
How do I ensure that my component editor is notified when the component it
is editing is about to be destroyed (or the unit closed)?
Rohit
I am trying to use this in a component to preview the keys, but no
luck. It does not even fire when the component has focus. I have
looked at the VCls and 3rd-party libs for its usage. I have
obviously missed something. Any ideas ?
Rohit
I believe that the notification tells you about every component
creation/deletion etc... and the form is a component as well.
On 20 May 99 at 11:49, phillip.middlemiss@forestrese wrote:
The notification method for which component?
The TComponentEditor does not have such a method
The
Whats the easiest way to let a workstation execute an app on the
server (or another workstation).
Rohit
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CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL, New Zealand
PH(649) 489-2280
FX(649) 489-2290
email
As suggested, you can use SelStart and SelEnd etc... However, for
future, you might want to note kbd_event - it generates key messages.
On 11 May 99 at 18:58, Kevin Wong wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me how can I set a WM_KEYDOWN Windows message to the same
as the user pressing a
Dave,
it might help if I gave the correct name...
keybd_event. you will find it in winapi help.
On 13 May 99 at 10:56, Dave O'Brien wrote:
OK... Whats 'kbd_event'? I can't find any reference to it.
Dave.
Rohit
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CFL -
For developers that are using it, it might pay them to test the
handling of database errors. For us, it does not work at all.
1. The execute always returns true, even if the report is not
previewed or printed due to a fatal database error.
2. Similarly, Status always says that the
In the dpr file, I have to had to put in try except block as follows.
Otheriwse on certain exceptions in in the initializtion of units it
is nonsense to carry on running the application. The user would just
get so many useless exceptions and possible corruption of database.
The problem is
Are you trying to trace through it perhaps ? It appears that the E
it gives you is a copy, not the original. It may have something to
do with $O+, IDE and the above.
On 4 May 99 at 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doing the following :
Except
On E : Exception Do
Steven,
I do it all the time, its the safest way to do global changes when
you start using a different component app wide or migrate from one
Delphi version to another. Also, if the IDE refuses to open the
form, which happens often everytime a field in the tabel is deleted,
the only way to
Dennis,
It was a bad choice of words. I lumped formcreate code into
initialisation. Any non-trivial code to deal with maths, strings,
objects, forms etc can cause exceptions.
One of the things that happens in our apps is that they use a
commandline parameter to determine where the data
You can resize the panel. I wrote a tphoto component a while ago, a
descendant of TPanel, it resizes the image and itself according to the
image dimensions to preseve aspect ratio. Which leaves a nice
beveled phot frame around the photo.
On 27 Mar 99 at 7:00, Alistair George wrote:
Hi
Aaron,
Ok, I dug out the manuals for the recent three most popular ones we
sell and they all support multiple character preamble and postamble.
On 19 Mar 99 at 13:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It look slike my time has come to address the Barcodes issue (perhaps a
FAQ should be started for
Neil,
to my knowledge there is no such thing. Delphi 2 onwards are
designed for win32 api, so run on 95,98 and NT.
There are ways of determining this at run-time though.
On 18 Mar 99 at 7:23, Neil Anderson wrote:
Does someone know what the compiler directive is to determine if running
Hi Steve,
Its worth mentioning to anyone using Crystal, in case they have not
realised. The dratted thing reads every record matching the filter
of the master table primary index... and all the linked records. It
then makes a new master table with everything in it.
Thats my understanding
On 11 Mar 99 at 16:09, Max Renshaw-Fox wrote:
No offence intended.
None was taken. :-)
Rohit
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Russel,
I use Crystal with Delphi. I have had absolutely no help from their
support email address. I finally complained to the president after
two weeks of continual email. That produced the help that I needed.
It turns out that if you mis-fill their forms, they are just junked.
And the
Has anyone been able to get the VCL to retrieve all report values
like their propoganda dept claims ? I couldnt, the on line help says
I cant either - it will happily retrieve all formulas, variables etc
but not their current values. That is, there appears to be no way
for the report to
On 10 Mar 99 at 10:23, Max Renshaw-Fox wrote:
I guess I should take up the challenge... (OK I'm feeling combative today)
Oops, did I hit a raw nerve. :-) Well, I certainly dont feel
combatitive.
As you know, I made no comment on the developers using Delphi, just
its VCL.
First, the kind
Russel, have you tried installing crystal on the WS using the WS
setup "disk" that they put together ? One of the subdirectories
under CRW is just that. Many of our problems disappeared when we
started using the setup in there. I dont use 16bit anymore, the
32bit directory is called
You can do a character by character analysis by trapping
keypress/keydown. I do case conversion, capitalising start of words
and filtering out undesired characters that way.
On 5 Mar 99 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a string grid so that's no good.
Rohit
Well, first, for precisely that reason, I use Orpheus for some user
input. Its a pity that Borland did not retain the excelelnt masking
ability in turbo vision.
Anyway, one way to fix it if it is a tfloatfield is to check the
currency property. in the object inspector.
On 3 Mar 99 at
Further to that, beware that old names are now property names such as
Text, Assign, Close. New ones exist to replace them to clarify for
the compiler such as AssignFile CloseFile. Else use System.Assign (I
think).
On 26 Feb 99 at 9:30, Siegfried Kirchmair wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that in
Amanda,
We get this all the time. Even as far back as NT3.51, the printer
code is bottom of the barrel. If you are lucky, just a re-install of
the driver works. We have had 4 clients so far, where we have to re-
install NT. :-)
Printer control should be Hardware (unless you have a good
Yes, it comes and goes, just another irritant one has to live with.
:-) Sometimes (but not always), it happens because the pallette is
not in focus when the mouse hovers over it.
On 10 Feb 99 at 11:33, Alistair George wrote:
Hi all. I have noticed an anomaly with 2 other PCs here using D3
Gary,
Have you tried Enabled ?
On 5 Dec 98 at 3:26, Gary Benner wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying to turn off Scrollbars in an MDI mainform but to no avail.
TForms have a property for the horizontal and vertical scrollbars of class
TControlScrollBar, and the visible property is meant to
Chris,
I would suggest using something like Infopower, thier grid supports
comboboxes amongst other things integrated into the grid.
As for sizing of the combobox, its a real pain having all these
controls of varying heights. Supposedly, the font determines the
height. All I can say is
After having got the last error, how do I retrive the string
description. I have done a search for possible candidates but cant
seem to find the function.
Rohit
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CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL,
The driver is so trivial, its not funny. I have been playing with
GiveIO, but it has a major flaw - it gives access to all ports to the
app. Worse, it appears to do it for all apps. So, I would like to
restrict it to one port.
To recompile I need ntddk.h, Has anyone got a copy they can
How can I create a calculated field at runtime ? Using FieldDefs.Add
puts the field in fieldefs, but no where else. It is missing from
Fields property , the grid cant display it etc..
Rohit
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CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd.
Yes I have that. I have succeeded in Fields, FieldByName and
FieldDefs properties to recognise the new field.
However, nothing else does, such as the grid
On 21 Jan 99 at 16:38, John Huttley wrote:
Fielddefs.Update?
Rohit Gupta wrote:
How can I create a calculated field
I cant seem to be able to trap Right/Left arrows on the TBitBtn. I
have tried Keydown, Keypress (just to make sure), wmkeydown and
wmsyskeydown none of them fire for th arrow keys.
Any hints anyone ?
Rohit
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CFL -
For end consumers, the CGA takes precedence anyway. Thankfully no
one has tested it yet. For business customers, you should be
actively cancelling out the CGA in writing and then that clause is
added protection.
On 2 Feb 99 at 19:04, James M Sandbrook wrote:
Why do we have to put these
Is it just me or is everyone re-receiving yesterdays mail ?
Rohit
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