I second that on both counts.
I've just ripped telerik out of a million dollar + project as it was too slow
for anything outside an intranet deployment.
Dev express very good.
Matt
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From: "Cameron Hart"
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 20
Depends on requirement for comms.
Changes rarely: file, registry
changes frequently: local db instance / sockets
If sending instructions one way consider msmq
Personal preference udp messages, this is same effectively as windows messages
Matt
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Btw don't forget that you can reference dlls from either to either, so
potentially you can have delphi app with c# dll talking to a c# app, then you
could use wcf
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 20
Hi sinu what are your salary expextations and would you be interested to move
to c# ?
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Date: 7 Jan 2009 01:26:05
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Subject: [DUG] Delphi developer with 7 years of experienc
Hi leigh please call me on 021771777
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From: Leigh Wanstead
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:48:17
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Books
Hi Matt,
I would like to collect all those books from you. Would you
Is your exe by any chance called:
Trojan.exe
Explorer.exe
or anything else that may cause XP to hurl ;)
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rText := LogMessage;
Synchronize(InternalLogStuff);
End;
Procedure InternalLogStuff;
Begin
Do Whatever you have to do to log it.
End;
Regards,
Matt.
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If anyone is interested, I can forward through the code.
Cheers,
Matt.
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Will the customer know that this is happening? If so than using email is
a
very simple way of doing it (probably only a few minutes work). If not
the
idea is full of problems, many clients who have internet will also use
proxy's / firewalls etc which could all cause problems.
There's a possible
I posted similar on Friday, and no-one seemed interested. Have we become
apathetic, or is it just Xmas ?
I'm just in denial :-)
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I'm in the middle of porting our main app to Delphi 6 and I came across this probem.
in Delphi 4, the following ran ok:
if dbgrdBankAccounts.Field[Ord(bkBankNo) + 1].AsString = Company.sDefaultBankAccount
then
Under Delphi 6 I get an access violation. However, if I break it down into its
co
From: "James Sugrue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Maybe it has something to do with the way it was calculating
>"Field[Ord(bkBankNo) + 1]"
>
>What happens if you try :
>
>Field[(Ord(bkBankNo) + 1)]
>
>
>Otherwise, I got nuttin
Thanks, I'll try that tommorow.
It's not a huge issue, but I would like to
>Here's a thought ...
>
>What type is the index to the Field property? Integer? byte?
Cardinal if I remember rightly (at home right now).
>What type does Ord() return? Cardinal?
Pass.
>What type is intBankNo? Integer maybe?
intBankNo was an integer I created to assign Ord(bkBankNo) to, so I coul
>I find XP generally no problems and not really any slower if you have a
>fast machine
Erm So it is in fact slower than 2000?
:-)
Think I'll stick with 2000 for a while longer.
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Hi. Now comes the crunch when I find for example, my rxlib does not work,
and it
wont work because the authors have stopped working on it since delphi 5.
There's an 'official' delhi 6 version on the delphi super page that may
work - I think the project has been moved to SourceForge, hang on
In the unit the Class is defined, have a variable located in the
Implementation section that the methods read/write to. Because it's in the
Implementation section it's hidden from the outside. The only problem is
that any descendents would have to be declared in the same unit, as
otherwise th
Well the Icons property is a IconList (TIconList), and the Icon property is
a TIcon, so just use:
RxTrayIcon1.Icon := RxTrayIcon1.Icons[ x ];
Hi anyone familiar with RxTrayIcon1 will know it has a list of icons for
the
animated property. I think that these icons can be manually used as well
Hi all just figured it out for myself:
RxTrayIcon1.Icon.Assign(RxTrayIcon1.icons[0]); //desired icon within []
Just make sure you've already created and assigned an Icon to
RxTrayIcon1.Icon, otherwise the call to assign will fail. (I think :-)
-
For some reason any email sent via Indy's SMTP client gets 'cached' by
Norton until the sending progam has been closed. Other email clients work
fine, and I've used this component (TidSMTP) before with Norton and had no
problems.
Anyone know anything about this proble
Wild guess time... are you disconnecting the component after the send is
complete?
Quite possibly Norton is waiting for the session to close before
forwarding
the message(s) on to the real email server. If you don't implicitly
close
the session by disconnecting, then it will likely stay open unt
I found the global Mouse.CursorPos property. Do I have to use that and
subtract the mainform position and the listview position or is there
something I've missed?
TControl.ScreenToClient(const Point: TPoint): TPoint;
Takes a screen cordinate, and translates it into local control cordinates.
Tha
info on the VCL - and a
CD-ROM!
- Matt
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ask. The result looks quite nice. If you're
interested, I can e-mail you the source - it comes with about half a dozen
components for stuff like antialiased text, scrolling marquees, knobs,
sliders and stuff for an MP3 player
> I don't want to cause a 'virtual riot' but can some-one recommend a
> book/help file
> for all the Window/Delphi Messages
The Windows SDK help file? It comes with Delphi...
- Matt
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tyle mask, which is pretty
much useless). Anybody know if one exists?
As for the idea of a repository for replacement edit controls and stuff, why
not start one? I'd be keen to see it, and even to contribute if I could...
- Matt
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Before you go out and buy Delphi 4, make sure you've got all the patches
(for Delphi) installed, but you can sleep safley in the knowledge that
things will work out alright if you get D4. Probably.
- Matt
sarily
forward-compatible) or MS's (breaking existing code by rewriting libraries).
But it's bad either way. Grr.
- Matt
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ity of Unix. That's the way it is (huah).
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e of a problem.
Up in the staff cafeteria in the computer science department at Auckland
University, they have (or had when I was last there) a calendar from Sun
Microsystems. The date on the calendar? 2038 :)
- Matt
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> Yep - Unix people are going to expect grief around 2036 (or 2048?).
"2048 - the REAL Y2K..."
- Matt ;)
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> Hmm, but will the no. of bytes required to represent the offset number be bigger than
> the stream you are compressing? :-)
Oh ye of little faith!
- Matt
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d) numerical
equivalent... eg
'Hello' = 72 101 108 108 111
= 1001000 1100101 1101100 1101100 110
= 1001 0001 1001 0111 0110 0110 1100 1101 1110
= $919766CDE
...but that would be cumbersome ;)
- Matt
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ltiple disjoint ranges (like 4,11) that
share blocks of code. Does anyone know if any compilers actually
implement this method?
- Matt
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me date from the HDD?
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> Can somebody advice on where to get a free collection of bitmaps
> representing commonly used actions such as Copy,paste,refresh,save etc. It
> is for use with tool bar buttons.
/me opens Word
/me presses Ctrl-PrintScrn
/me opens Photosho
ndor, is questionable though, isnt it?
Well, it depends. The other angle on this is that if everybody uses the
same icons, software will ultimately be easier to use... I would hope
Microsoft would be keen for this to happen...
- Matt
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ho can help me out, but it'll be
freeware anyway :) Rest assured you'll get all the fame I can give you, even
if not the fortune...
TIA
- Matt
[1] My current one is unlicensed 30-day shareware, and I'm too cheap to
register it.
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it. (but the correct unit is displayed).
Occasionally after a compile, the code explorer window stops responding (D5,
Win98, IE5.01, D5 service pack installed). The tree won't expand, or respond
to any other stimuli. The only way to fix it seems to be to quit and restar
t parameters (I'm not at home, so I can't check). Using DrawText
enables you to specify all sorts of neat things like vertical
justification, ellipsis (shortening the text if it doesn't all fit) and
so o
program was trying to read all sorts of stuff off the
default printer, which didn't exist... The solution? Check if the
printers array is empty, and if it is, quit :)
- Matt
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formation will be returned from that,
otherwise there'll be like a 'default' device with A4 paper, 360 dpi,
etc. Comments?
- Matt
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time-consuming tasks can be placed in
the "background", and the program will be faster and more responsive to the
user. One downside of multi-tasking, or threads, is that it can take up more
resources, but at least it gets rid of the smell."
:)
- The O
problem
> Could be extended to the problems of WANs vs LANs
:)
- Matt
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s2 + s[1];
Delete(s, 1, 1);
end;
end;
StrList.Add(s2);
end;
S is the packed string, Sym is the separator, and StrList is a (probably
empty) TStrings instance. For example:
UnpackString('This&is&a&test', '&', Memo
> Has anybody got any examples using the win32 APC's? (Asynchronous
Procedure
> Calls).
Glad you clarified that. I thought you meant Armoured Personnel Carriers.
- Matt
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> Is it possible to query/search an EXE for all the resources in it? if so
> how?
Try the Delphi/Demos/Resxplor example project.
HTH,
- Matt
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K only functions seem to be documented in the SDK help,
tho'... I wonder why this one wasn't...
> Marching onwards I found the below in Delphi's help... Couldn't get that
> working (or find the appropriate function) either.
No... I think it needs a special type of Canvas
Has anybody had any experience with using the MSHTML editor in Delphi?
- Matt
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lphiZine.com/features/1999/08/di199908rl_f/di199908rl_f.asp
Thanks,
Matt
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mattpowe
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> CHECK OUT THIS HOT NEW SITE AT www.busty-smoking-babes.com - THE HOTTEST
CIGARETTE AND CIGAR SMOKING BIG BUSTED BABES ON THE NET!!
What the HELL?
- Matt
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ses the type of
the object. Yay.
(I'm not quite sure what you mean by "looking in the .dfm no classnames are
mentioned for the items"...?)
I love OO. It gives me a warm feeling inside.
- Matt
8<---
program Project1;
uses
Classes,
Dialogs;
{$R *.RES}
type
TAnima
ke Phones and Dollar Signs.
>
> Actually don't know whether that is legal or not?
>
> Matt.
Well, given that fonts like Wingdings and Webdings are specifically
intended to provide a "common interface, I think it'
space...).
IMO it's always better to use a Collection for non-trivial stuff, simply
because of the added functionality that TCollection brings to the party.
Ah, if only Delphi had a decent collections implementation like Java
2...
- Matt
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gt; tools, and any pros or cons you may have discovered during use.
Here at UoC we use Rational Rose (Student Edition). It's really slow and
quite buggy, but it does the job, I guess (he says, lacking any other
experience...)
- Matt
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> Does anyone know how I can place a javascript in a style sheet for
> HMTL help. I dont want to place the code for this function in each
> html file.
JavaScript Style Sheets (JSS) are Netscape-only at the moment, so you
may be SOL
unt * b) to it or something, where b is the size of
the thing being counted (an event?)
I don't know. I'm still a C programmer at heart... Pointers are sooo
yummy...
If this still makes no sense, it would help if
Hi Matt,
I'd like to see the code too, thanks.
Regards
Matt Owens-Smith
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