RE: [DUG]: Ttable vs TQuery, Paradox vs Interbase

1999-03-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi Leo. I made the change 3 years ago. Now, I simply wouldn't contemplate going back. There are far to many reasons why I am convinced that Local Database is dead technology to discuss here, and I don't want to get involved in world war 3 about Interbase versus

RE: [DUG]: Serial Comms / OpenComm functions

1999-03-07 Thread Tony Blomfield
. There is no down side to this approach. Tony Blomfield 50 Waitoki Rd RD1 Kaukapakapa Ph 64 9 4205277 Cell Phone 64 25 881657 application/ms-tnef

[DUG]: Serial Comms on Thin Client

1999-03-09 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi. Does anybody have any experiance with doin Serial comms on a NCD Thinstar 200 with a NT Terminal Server running Thinstar Plus Version 1.0??? I mean writing a Delphi Comms program for it. If so, I would appreciate hearing about it. Cheers Tony Blomfield 50 Waitoki Rd RD1 Kaukapakapa

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

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
Modify or Re design the VCL??? You guys a gotta be in ga ga land. Man, like this is bullshit. Max Fox was onto it, and said it all for me.I mean lets get a little practical about all this. Are all your egos so inflated that you actually think you can out do the guys in Borland ??? So why are

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

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 12 March 1999 10:27 Subject: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4) Tony Blomfield wrote: In addition, IMO quick reports is very much

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

1999-03-13 Thread Tony Blomfield
At 22:45 12/03/99 +1300, Tony wrote: The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which can not be modified and which

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

1999-03-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
Fair enough... So I'm preparing to shift my 16 bit apps report package into a D4 program and this will mean having two bde's installed on each clients server. One for the app and one for its reporting package. Regards Russell Belding Belding Computing Devices WINLAW, BIZXWORD, ENGPER.

RE: [DUG]: System wide keytrap

1999-03-17 Thread Tony Blomfield
Is there a system API to trap all keystrokes systemwide so that I can implement a kbd connected bar-code-scanner driver ? Rohit, excuse me if I have misunderstood your question and am telling you something you already know, but I

[DUG]: SQL Links to Oracle 6

1999-04-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
Oracle 6 to SQL Server. You can Call this a planned downgrade - I don't mind. TIA, Tony Blomfield. --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

RE: [DUG]: How thin the client will be?

1999-04-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
Pretty admirable strategy Eliot, but where does it fit in to the picture for somebody building an application for a company who don't have the time or $ for this approach??? As per most of our NZ customers. I have not been fortunate enough to be involved in a team using your approach, but would

[DUG]: Licensing ActiveX (OCX) files for Delphi App Deployment.

1999-05-06 Thread Tony Blomfield
Could anybody help me by explaining how to go about deploying a Delphi 4 app using an OCX that requires run time licensing. The OCX I am using in my delphi App comes with the MS vis studio which is also installed on me Dev machine. Although the OCX is being registered correctly in my install

RE: [DUG]: Licensing ActiveX (OCX) files for Delphi App Deployment.

1999-05-06 Thread Tony Blomfield
. N Tony Blomfield wrote: Could anybody help me by explaining how to go about deploying a Delphi 4 app using an OCX that requires run time licensing. The OCX I am using

Re: [DUG]: NT Terminal Server

1999-05-09 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Dennis Chuah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, 10 May 1999 10:47 Subject: RE: [DUG]: NT Terminal Server Tony, If your application uses Serial Port comms, then most likely you are in for a very rude

Re: [DUG]: Quick report glyphs

1999-05-10 Thread Tony Blomfield
No, I don't think ComCtrl32 is the answer. I had this identical problem on site late last week, on a NT4 SP3 machine, but didn't have time to persue it. Before I return there on wednesday this week, I have downloaded the latest QR stuff just in case the problem lay in QR (Like so may other

[DUG]: QR - Glyphs and hints not showing on Preview Toolbar.

1999-05-11 Thread Tony Blomfield
Somebody asked about this the other day, and I promised to get back to night... Well, for me the problem was totally cured on NT4 SP4 by Recompiling my application with the latest Updates from QR. Cheers, Tony Blomfield

[DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

1999-05-16 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hey people... What is going to happen with this heep of dog dung. QR version 3 with Delphi 4 is the most buggy heep of rubish I have ever come accross. Surly one can expect it to be reasonably clean a year ofter release? I don't know about the rest of you, but I am really annoyed to

Re: [DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

1999-05-16 Thread Tony Blomfield
Thanks for the kind offer Paul, but its Version 3 that is really giving me a hard time. I had version 2 pretty well patched up already. When I purchased Delphi 4 last year, I automatically moved to version 3, just assuming that QR would come right within a few months. Now I

RE: [DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

1999-05-18 Thread Tony Blomfield
OK Will do. I am asking all of you who have purchased Quick Reports to send a message to Charlie Calvert, John Kaster or even David I, to let them know that you are not happy with Quick Reports and QuSoft. If we all let them know we are not happy then something will be done about it. How about

RE: [DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

1999-05-18 Thread Tony Blomfield
mm, but nevertheless, thing should never have got to this point. They ("Borland") must have been aware of the problems for a very long time, and did nothing. I'm not a Borland nocker - you know that Max, but put simply, QR problems = loss of $, and lots of hassle for all those people who have

RE: [DUG]: QUICK REPORTS ONGOING BUGS

1999-05-19 Thread Tony Blomfield
IMO, Dump it. James seems to have gotten some feed back. However, his feed back is the same excuses I have seen for the past three years. Its been a year since QR3 was released with D4. How long does it take? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: [DUG]: Re: Remote Execution

1999-05-20 Thread Tony Blomfield
How do you start the Rexec Service on the host though? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Lowman Sent: Thursday, 20 May 1999 17:52 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Re: Remote Execution Rohit -   Use DCOM or I

RE: [DUG]: Re: Remote Execution

1999-05-20 Thread Tony Blomfield
May 1999 14:43 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Re: Remote Execution Don't know :-) Actually I have only a vague recollection of such a thing so don't quote me! Paul - Original Message - From: Tony Blomfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list

[DUG]: Quick Report Bugs.

1999-05-27 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi. I just walked in to this Email Response from QSoft to a pleading mail I sent to them regarding the Previewer Resource Issues. Quote Hello What do you suspect? "We are the only company on this planet making bugfree software". We will very soon make available a bugfix / update 3.05 very

RE: [DUG]: Quick Report Bugs.

1999-05-27 Thread Tony Blomfield
MVP, MCP Adrock Software Byte Computer Software LTD P.O Box 13-155 Christchurch New Zealand Phone/Fax (NZ) 03-3651-112 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Blomfield Sent: Friday, 28 May 1999 07:50 To: Multiple recipients of list

[DUG]: AV's in VCL40 with Delphi 4

1999-05-28 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi. For the past year I have been annoyed by random AV's while working. I Have D4 CS with Update 3 applied on NT4 SP3. It occurs often when closing Delphi, sometimes when Compiling, sometimes while debugging from a breakpoint, and occaisionally while just typeing in the editor. It's not

Re: [DUG]: Two Delphi programs need a single source

1999-06-01 Thread Tony Blomfield
Yay! -Original Message- From: Willie Juson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, 1 June 1999 22:55 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Two Delphi programs need a single source use interbase and a generator -Original Message- From: Jason Webb

RE: [DUG]: What the 'L' is the problem?

1999-06-10 Thread Tony Blomfield
A few methods you should look up in the help file...   Locate FindNearest FindNext DisableControls GotoKey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Osborne Sent: Thursday, 10 June 1999 21:51 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject:

RE: [DUG]: What the 'L' is the problem?

1999-06-10 Thread Tony Blomfield
Previously I said lookup FindNext - I meant FindKey Locate - Not available ihn Delphi1. But FindKey and FindNearest are.   Sorry, Too early in the morning! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Osborne Sent: Thursday, 10 June 1999 22:29

RE: [DUG]: File copying

1999-06-10 Thread Tony Blomfield
Basically you use shFileOperation(IpFileOp); There is a bit of work in this so if you Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'l send exactly what you want over the weekend. Cheers, Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[DUG]: Delphi 5 Reports

1999-06-13 Thread Tony Blomfield
Does any body know what report generator Delphi 5 will ship with?

Re: [DUG]: Reference books

1999-06-13 Thread Tony Blomfield
Mark, Your questions are NOT silly. Tony. -Original Message- From: Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, 13 June 1999 19:47 Subject: [DUG]: Reference books Hi Guys It would be interesting and useful to me (and maybe some

[DUG]: Directory Is Busy

1999-06-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi... I am just cleaning up somebody elses DBase application. One of the things I notice is that as soon as a TQuery is opened, then a temporary file is created. These are left splattered in the Default Directory. So, as a start on handling this I decided to do Session.PrivateDir = Which

Re: [DUG]: SQL Dates/Times

1999-07-07 Thread Tony Blomfield
MARK, Dont ever try to format dates in SQL. Always use a parameterized Query e.g. Select * from Tbl where ColumnDate + :SomeDate. Do this consistently and you will not have any problems regardless of Database (Except for perhaps the odd problem with Certain versions of ODBC for SQL Server but

[DUG]: Connection to Oracle 8 through BDE

1999-07-16 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi. I have just installed Oracle8 client and am attempting to create a connection using BDE with a TDatabase. After I try to open the connection and Logon, I always get the message "Unable to find OCI.dll" This is the Oracle connection Interface dll. Does anybody know how I can get this to

Re: [DUG]: Connection to Oracle 8 through BDE

1999-07-19 Thread Tony Blomfield
with a name like Direct to Oracle Access (DOA). -Original Message- From: Tony Blomfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 17 July 1999 10:18 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Connection to Oracle 8 through BDE Hi. I have just installed Oracle8 client and am

Re: [DUG]: Connection to Oracle 8 through BDE

1999-07-19 Thread Tony Blomfield
] *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 19/07/1999 at 16:43 Tony Goodrich wrote: I have heard that you can connect directly to Oracle without using the BDE using something with a name like Direct to Oracle Access (DOA). -Original Message- From: Tony Blomfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [DUG]: Connection to Oracle 8 through BDE

1999-07-19 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi Yanbo. Yep, the O8 client was fully installed with every option, and SQL*Plus appeared to work fine. The only thing I have to go on is the fact that the BDE VendorInit seems to ignore its own settings and go for the Borland default file. I expected the BDE alias to be very simple.. but not

Re: [DUG]: borland.com gets a face lift.

1999-07-20 Thread Tony Blomfield
Will the bugs be migrated successfully to D5??? After all, D4 was never finished was it. How about a report generator that works.??? Add on the cost of a report generator, and Install builder kit, and D5 upgrade is not looking all that affordable.

[DUG]: Thin Database Components.

1999-09-01 Thread Tony Blomfield
1. For Interbase we have FIB and IBO 2. For Oracle we have ODA ?? Components. Does anybody know of similar components for working with the Database API for SQL Server 7, and Informix? TIA, Tony.

Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components.

1999-09-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
Thanks. I'l check it out. -Original Message-From: Xander van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thursday, 2 September 1999 9:28 PMSubject: Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components. Here are three URLs that I picked up of

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

1999-09-03 Thread Tony Blomfield
There seemws to be very little mileage in going this way. 1. Is this really "Thin" technology is per my earlier goal statement. 2. Financially the only winners in this race are Borland. From what I read there is absolutely NO financial incentive for me to go down this road. Loosly put, anybody

Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components.

1999-09-03 Thread Tony Blomfield
OK. Well Thanks for all the points of view. As I am just starting a new project from the design up, it is a greate time to review my "favoured archetecture" and decide on a new approach or not. Its a hard decision to make because, there are several favoured strategies out being used by very

Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components.

1999-09-06 Thread Tony Blomfield
the user to see anyway. Max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Blomfield Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 20:16 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components. Thanks for the replies. Bypassing the BDE

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

1999-09-06 Thread Tony Blomfield
I completely agree with this part. If you want to make stuff really thin, then you must at some stage cache data on the users (client) PC and only update it when there is a change in the same data on the server - this can be very effective for all those lookup tables that don't change very often

Re: [DUG]: Save IB

1999-09-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
a VAR program, along with some other programs but they may take a few months. If there is anyone else supporting Tony's view, then emailing Annie (GM of Inprise NZ) is a good idea - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and tell her you think an Inprise InterBase VAR program would be a good idea. Tony Blomfield wrote

Re: [DUG]: Informix

1999-09-15 Thread Tony Blomfield
Has this anything at all to do with Delphi? -Original Message- From: Colin W Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 15 September 1999 9:02 PM Subject: [DUG]: Informix Hi Anyone had experience logging into an Access Db via

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

1999-09-15 Thread Tony Blomfield
What is current price from SC for upgrade D4CS to D5 Enterprise please. Perhaps a general review of all pricing on the list might be usefull with realistic delivery times for each. Is this possible? When will SP1 be out? -Original Message- From: Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

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

1999-09-15 Thread Tony Blomfield
of a price! Guesse I'l sit this one out. -Original Message- From: Nic Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 16 September 1999 7:38 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ Tony Blomfield wrote: What is current price

Re: [DUG]: PRINTER - Setting Page Length

1999-09-16 Thread Tony Blomfield
I use Report Builder Pro to do Barcode labels on a variety of stock with success. Typical time to implement a new label design is ten minutes. Think I'm slow though. I really should implement the end user designer so the customer can do this. This is for a specialised barcode printer. Dunno if

Re: [DUG]: ShellExecute

1999-09-17 Thread Tony Blomfield
Use CreateProcess -Original Message- From: Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 17 September 1999 4:01 PM Subject: [DUG]: ShellExecute ShellExecute returns an instancehandle. WHat use is this ? Is there someway I can know

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

1999-09-20 Thread Tony Blomfield
Ah Max, but in my position, would you feel so compelled to spend 3.5K only one year later to go from D4 to D5.? Really, I think its up to Borland to try and sell me on this one. I just dont see the pay back is there. Is Corba fully implemented in D4? Or do we have to buy extra stuff to do the

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

1999-09-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
] Date: Tuesday, 21 September 1999 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ Tony Blomfield wrote: Vis Studio comes with Rational Rose. Have you _used_ Rational Rose?? I was exceptionally unimpressed. The method is OK, the tool is crap. Not that the others are that much better

[DUG]: Mapping and GPS

1999-10-05 Thread Tony Blomfield
HI. I have an urge to write my own GPS plotter software. This is purely a hobby. I am interested in taking a paper map, and scanning it in, then writing some picture clean up and documenting stuff. I also need to figure out how to map the lat long coordinates on to the image, which map

Re: [DUG]: Mapping and GPS

1999-10-05 Thread Tony Blomfield
Phew. Yes I had a suspician it would not be easy - or small. If I get into this, then for the moment my GPOS is not differential, but that doesn't matter for the development. There are some Diff sites up here I could access though. (America cup ra ra ra does have some benifits) I already have

Re: [DUG]: Mapping and GPS

1999-10-05 Thread Tony Blomfield
version for VB4/VB5. Can't remember the name of the company - I haven't worked with VB for a long time now. Dennis. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Blomfield Sent: Tuesday, 5 October 1999 22:26 To: Multiple recipients of list

[DUG]: IE5 and QR

1999-10-11 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi. I have a certain fairly complex report built by someone else in QR. This reports runs fine on one box with NT4, SP5, IE4, but on a second box with NT4, SP5, IE5, the report crashes totally. Testing on a few other machines, and it seems that this particular report does not like IE5. Can

[DUG]: PE Compact - Off topic

1999-10-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
To those who use V 6.X version 7 is out and is MUCH faster - minutes instead of hours. Cheers, Tony. --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website:

[DUG]: Brisbane Conferance Share Room

1999-10-17 Thread Tony Blomfield
Hi. Anybody looking to share room costs for nights of 13th 14th 15th October please call me Cellphone 025 881 657 TIA Tony. --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5

1999-10-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 21 October 1999 21:35 Subject: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5 Hi guys OK - a more carefully considered question! This is the first

Re: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5

1999-10-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Mark Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 22 October 1999 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5 from Borland and apply that at every site. The 5.01 Update worked

Re: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5

1999-10-22 Thread Tony Blomfield
The 5.01 Update is very handy. Basically it takes a look at what ever BDE is installed, and does the neccesary parts correctly. So it covers every possible situation. You dont have to worry what you are upgrading from. Take note that it only upgrades and does not add or remove any BDE

Re: [DUG]: Upgrade of BDE

1999-10-22 Thread Tony Blomfield
You are probably right. Iether way, it doesnt worry me. A few megs is niether here nor there . IMO the BDE install from Borland does not appear to be compressed (oddly enough) --- New Zealand Delphi Users group -

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
ummm... about 3 years ago or perhaps more!! -Original Message- From: Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 3 November 1999 1:29 PM Subject: [DUG]: Editor Macros Excuse me Mr Borland, but WHEN exactly did you add editor

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
QEdit is/was terrific! -Original Message- From: Nahum Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 3 November 1999 2:20 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Editor Macros I think that I found out about the record/playback in D3 because of some

Re: [DUG]: ADO V BDE

1999-11-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
Thanks for the Feedback. On the surface it doesn't seem like a hell of a lot of strong reasons to change technology from the dog ya know to the one ya dont.. I'd really like to hear some compelling reasons to do it. On the surface so far, It looks like ADO just does what the BDE does - no more

Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros

1999-11-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
Are you feeling allright? Only an Informix neandothil could say that with sincerity!-Original Message- From: Greg Amer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 3 November 1999 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros Ever heard of vim

[DUG]: Generators - Sequences, and Identities

1999-11-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
Unless I have missunderstood, SQL7 has no equivolent of Interbases generators, or Oracles Sequences? Instead it has the identity data type which is akin to Access or paradox Autoincrement columns. The only time you seem to be able to see what your identity value was/is is immediatly following a

Re: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences, and Identities

1999-11-02 Thread Tony Blomfield
- Sequences, and Identities We use a separate table to maintain the nextID for all the tables. -Original Message- From: Tony Blomfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences

Re: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences, and Identities

1999-11-03 Thread Tony Blomfield
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Blomfield Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences, and Identities Unless I have missunderstood, SQL7 has no equivolent of Interbases generators, or Oracles

Re: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences, and Identities

1999-11-03 Thread Tony Blomfield
) This is off the top of my head but hope it helps Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E. EE - Original Message - From: Tony Blomfield tonyb@ipro link.co.nz To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 November 1999 08:33 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences

Re: [DUG]: TADOQuery

1999-11-08 Thread Tony Blomfield
I have my own set of problems... I have a union query which definitely does not produce duplicates. when connected at Design time, it gives a good result in a dbgrid. However at run time every row is duplicated, in a way that sugests the union query is actually producing duplicate rows, but

Re: [DUG]: TADOQuery

1999-11-08 Thread Tony Blomfield
I have found the same thing in a Union Query where the same parameter name is used each side of the Union TADOQuery creates 2 parameters with the same name. Further, I find that if I populate the query statically at design time, the Q performs as expected BUT If I populate the SQL text at run

Re: [DUG]: Freeing forms..... Confusion....

1999-11-09 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Donovan J. Edye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 10:49 AM Subject: [DUG]: Freeing forms. Confusion Try something like this implementation uses Unit2; procedure Blah... var

[DUG]: ADO Query Question

1999-11-09 Thread Tony Blomfield
HI. Heres the problem. Imagine a query like this Select 'T', Description from Sometable The reason for the pseudo first column in this case is simply so we can set a checkbox in a DB grid. The user can walk up and down the grid checking or unchecking items, then when he clicks OK, processing

Re: [DUG]: ADO Query Question

1999-11-10 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Blomfield Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 14:47 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: ADO Query Question HI. Heres the problem. Imagine a query like this Select 'T', Description

Re: [DUG]: Distributing Delphi Applications

1999-11-10 Thread Tony Blomfield
He sure is worked up! For a start, he says he dont have the stuff for data pump, then says he deploys CS applications using SQL Links. If he does in fact use SQL links, then he must have the enterprise version and that means the datapump stuff...but thats an aside anyway. I use Wise 7 with no

Re: [DUG]: NT Workstation and Delphi 4

1999-11-11 Thread Tony Blomfield
Log on as Administrator, Use Reg edit to export the Borland Hive from the Software registry. Do this for both Local_Users and CUrrent_USers, and in both cases save the registry export soemwhere that you have acces from your other local account logon Log off from admin, and log back on as

Re: [DUG]: IDE

1999-11-17 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 18 November 1999 2:40 PM Subject: [DUG]: IDE Hiya All When Opening a Project is there any way to Autoload datamodules I dont think so...but you should not

Re: [DUG]: IDE

1999-01-15 Thread Tony Blomfield
Maybe you have a point there Neven, but really I am at surprised at the condemnation this simple feature? has incurred. For me, it is a damned good reminder that I haven't inadvertently left a dataset open - and it is a small inconvenience to just open the data module with my connection device on

Re: [DUG]: IDE

1999-01-16 Thread Tony Blomfield
for a dataset left open, and of course with D5 its easier because the forms are stored as text anyway. Its the sort of simple tool that should really be included on the delphi CD though. Tony Regards Neven - Original Message - From: Tony Blomfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple

Re: [DUG]: BDE problems

1999-01-16 Thread Tony Blomfield
Try Undocumented BDE settings... mem size = .75 * (AvailableRam - 16) with a max 0f 205 and SharedMemSize = .25 * (AvailableRam - 16Mb) with a max of 64K and note that this setting rolls around so 65K actually = 1K Tony. -Original Message- From: Julien Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [DUG]: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe

1999-11-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
These things happen from time to time on all lists. The IB list is pretty good at this + the odd bit of Sex trade as well. Ya cant go along for ever expecting everybody else to protect you. Learn to live with it. Nics got better things to do. -Original Message- From: Nic Wise [EMAIL

[DUG]: Fw: IB Express

1999-11-22 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Tony Blomfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, 23 November 1999 11:22 AM Subject: IB Express Hi. Has anybody noticed that with a DBGrid when you change from a BDE Dataset to an IBDataset, Query, or Table

Re: [DUG]: how do you remove a paradox record lock

1999-11-23 Thread Tony Blomfield
You need to delete the .lck file, and probably the .net file, but this can be hard because often Delphi retains a phantom connection - so you are probably faced with carrying on as you are, and avoid Program Reset if you can. -Original Message- From: Leo Ramakers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [DUG]: Printerindex Property

1999-11-23 Thread Tony Blomfield
These two lines may be usefull to you - using a combo for the printer selection... {Populate Combo} FComboPrinter.Items.Assign(Printer.Printers); {getting it back} Index := FComboPrinter.Items.IndexOf(Printer.Printers[Printer.PrinterIndex]) -Original Message- From: Alistair George

Re: [DUG]: TDBLookupCombobox

1999-11-29 Thread Tony Blomfield
You aren't going to like this! Is your database Client Server??? or local. If Cs, then you SHOULD_NOT_USE this control. It is very inneficient. In general (even for local database) you are better to manuallt populate a standard TCombo - you can use the TStrings.Objects to store the ID, and the

Re: [DUG]: DCOM problems with Delphi Forms.

1999-11-30 Thread Tony Blomfield
You can solve it by setting the Identity of the server to Interactive User. You can set this by using DCOMCNFG.EXE. Once you want to release, the best setting is "This User", but that means no visual interaction with the app server. -Original Message- From: Julien Thomas [EMAIL

[DUG]: IB Express Components

1999-12-01 Thread Tony Blomfield
Does anybody know of any documentation/examples or have any working knowledge of these components? There seems to be an absence of any usefull information except for the Mast App example in D5 which is somewhat trivial. Thanks, Tony.

Re: [DUG]: TStrings.Objects

1999-12-01 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Dennis Chuah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 2 December 1999 9:10 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: TStrings.Objects How do I use an Object property (declared as TObject) to do this? Do I create my own class

Re: [DUG]: InstallShield

1999-12-06 Thread Tony Blomfield
I use Wise Install Builder 7.x, and am reasonably happy with it. Tony. -Original Message- From: Max Nilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, 7 December 1999 17:44 Subject: RE: [DUG]: InstallShield Patrick Dunford asked of me:

Re: [DUG]: Adding of database fields

1999-12-07 Thread Tony Blomfield
In your TDatabase Parameters set Enable BCD = True If you are using a BDE Alias (yuk) then use the BDE administrator to do this in your alias. -Original Message- From: Paul Heinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 8 December 1999

[DUG]: TEST Pllease ignore.

1999-12-13 Thread Tony Blomfield
TEST --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

Re: [DUG]: Databases....

1999-12-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Donovan J. Edye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 8:42 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Databases P, Thanks for that.. #1 - I have the 2 years MS-SQL wise. #2 - Seems to be the go

Re: [DUG]: Imput formatter

1999-12-15 Thread Tony Blomfield
Where you been hiding the last week? - Life was nice and quiet! The best set of Edit Controls I have seen is Orpheus by Turbopower. Wade has some components he made that provide an adequate solution also. I use Wades - Thinner than Orpheus. Cheers... -Original Message- From: Neven

Re: [DUG]: Date/Time calculations

1999-12-17 Thread Tony Blomfield
I would suggest that the people interested in this Age thing spend 1 hour reading SysUtils.Pas, then if there are any questions left, read the old example 16 bit Calendar component code still resident in Delphi. If there are still questions, then try a VB solution. -Original Message-

Re: [DUG]: I've had it up to here with TEdit descendants

1999-12-17 Thread Tony Blomfield
Have you checked out Orpheus from Turbopower? Or did that piss you off also? I haven't used it since Delphi1, but it was pretty damned impressive then. If you haven't tried it, then suggest you download the demo from www.turbopower.com. I'm Interested to here what you settle on eventually.

Re: [DUG]: Databases....

1999-12-18 Thread Tony Blomfield
not as easy as the demos and documentation (HA! What documentation) make out. - Original Message - From: Tony Blomfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Databases I missed

Re: [DUG]: Databases....

1999-12-18 Thread Tony Blomfield
Correct on the 10 user count -Original Message- From: Peter J [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, 19 December 1999 08:50 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Databases I would need to check this but I think you will find that WKS has a 10 user

Re: [DUG]: Date/Time calculations

1999-12-19 Thread Tony Blomfield
yea, and if you take a look at Sysutils and Examples/Calculator.pas you will find everything you could possibly need to assist this. -Original Message- From: Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, 20 December 1999 9:55 AM

[DUG]: Interbase with Midas and IBX

1999-12-21 Thread Tony Blomfield
. Tony Blomfield --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

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