[DUG] Design Patterns book

reading at the moment.? The last few books I've read have been Bob Swarts Intraweb book, the Intraweb manual and a couple of books on jQuery Mobile. -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com

[DUG] Jira book on special today

- but it is recently published, so presumably up to date. -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington

Re: [DUG] Jira book on special today

You need to fill in the promo code in the checkout. Use discount code:*DDJRA* Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 13/06/2011 3:48 p.m

Re: [DUG] Web development

FYI, O'reilly have 50% JavaScript books and video this week - also includes some HTML5 http://oreilly.com/store/dd-HALFD.csp Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085

Re: [DUG] Web development

for Java for instance). Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 5/06/2011 2:20 p.m., Steve Peacocke wrote: Paul. A very informative reply thanks

Re: [DUG] Web development

- although I've used it to build a few little applications that have worked quite well, great to leverage existing code and knowledge. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box

Re: [DUG] Validate data entry

If the forms are similar you could use Form inheritance or Frames to cut down on the number of different entry points. A master form with all the entry points and validation, with inherited forms showing different layouts. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471

Re: [DUG] New Zealand Maps

://OpenStreetMaps.org using the OpenLayers http://openlayers.org API, while the quality is not as good - it's very good for the price (which of course is $0). http://geosmart.co.nz Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http

Re: [DUG] NZ Developer Day - invitation

I'm registered and flights booked, is there any other out of town-ers attending? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 27/05/2011 9:39

Re: [DUG] Whoops - June 9th

Do we have start and end times as yet, just so I can start planning flights/accommodation? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 17/05

Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer

or 7-zip or something like that. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 15/05/2011 11:51 a.m., David O'Brien wrote: Why not just use XCopy

Re: [DUG] Auckland mini-conference

I'd fly up from Wellington to attend. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 6/05/2011 3:57 p.m., Richard Vowles wrote: Hi all

Re: [DUG] New Zealand Maps

Thanks Steve, I've been in touch with them and it looks promising. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 5/05/2011 4:01 p.m., Steve

Re: [DUG] New Zealand Maps

Cheers Roger, they also look like a good possibility. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 5/05/2011 4:45 p.m., Roger Kingaby wrote: Hi

[DUG] New Zealand Maps

? -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post

Re: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook

. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 14/03/2011 10:15 a.m., Steve Peacocke wrote: Thanks Rodney, I'm trying it out - not sure of living in the world of the little teeny-weeny for too long

Re: [DUG] Contents of Delphi digest...

A note for Thunderbird users, if you highlight some text from the email and click reply, the reply will only contain that text. I don't know if it works for Outlook. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville

Re: [DUG] Move mouse to ListItem

not documented at all. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 8/03/2011 7:42 p.m., David O'Brien wrote: It would be nice if there was some decent help in D2009. It is pitiful; Quite often no more than

Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

How about the assembler that I got with DOS 3.3? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 1/02/2011 10:26 a.m., Malcolm Groves wrote: Thanks Conor, It's actually a crossgrade from any

Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

significant. http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ It might be a pretty cool way of getting kids into programming. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 1/02/2011 10:41 a.m., Jeremy Coulter

Re: [DUG] Variabels stored

Probably also worth watching some videos http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Delphi_Videos Check out the 30 Camtasias in 30 days, it's got a bunch of basics in there which should be helpful Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box

Re: [DUG] Variables stored

you might be able to go even one better by setting the Action = caFree in OnClose and just use result := Self.Create(nil).ShowModal = mrOK; removing the with, and cutting the code from 6 lines to 1. Actually is Self.Create safe - rather than TMyDialog.Create? Alister Christie Computers

Re: [DUG] Variabels stored

need to access MyString, you can place it in the public or private section (or protected). Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 20/01/2011 3:45 p.m., Marshland Engineering wrote

Re: [DUG] Auckland Company Developing in Delphi

Leigh may as well have said What ever you do, don't push the big red button - in a group full of curious people - it's obvious what is going to happen. I don't live in Auckland, and therefore shouldn't care - but I would still like to know why Leigh is asking this question. Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] Validating CDS files

Well put ;-) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 18/01/2011 1:40 p.m., Kyley Harris wrote: I'm wondering if you analyzed your need for popcorn carefullly. You asked for popcorn.. you got

Re: [DUG] Validating CDS files

You could of course just try to load it very roughly: function IsCDSVaild(file : string) : boolean var cds : TClientDataSet begin result := true; cds := TClientDataSet.Create; try cds.LoadFromFile(file); except result := false; end cds.free; end Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] Sql query

than restarting the application. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 14/01/2011 12:49 p.m., Marshland Engineering wrote: I'm viewing a SQL query in a dbgrid. When I add a record to the source

Re: [DUG] Delphi roadmap

. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 8/01/2011 10:22 a.m., Malcolm Groves wrote: Personally, I'd rather we get Win64, MacOSX, and maybe a mobile platform out the door before we look

Re: [DUG] Delphi roadmap

I think Borcoderoprise would be closer Borland, CodeGear, Embarcadero and the ever favorable Inprise Anyone else see further improvements? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 10/01/2011 10

Re: [DUG] Company closing

of the new technologies (Currently have half an android application talking to a REST server written in Delphi using JSON), so only learning a bit at a time. But Delphi is now huge, where would one start? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http

Re: [DUG] Company closing

. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 29/11/2010 10:37 a.m., Berend de Boer wrote: Alistair == Alistair Wardaw...@forum8.co.nz writes: Alistair I'm firmly of the belief that for a good

Re: [DUG] Company closing

I've long given up on best, if it works and is readable then I move on - I should also add that it has tests, but I'm not that disciplined as yet. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 29/11

Re: [DUG] Company closing

Interestingly the compiler is written in C# Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote: ?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android

Re: [DUG] DelphiDroid

From what I heard it will be native - although all I've heard are rumors - certainly no statement of intent. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 29/11/2010 4:19 p.m., Jolyon Smith wrote

Re: [DUG] Upgrading to XE - Unicode strings questions

You should get a copy of Marco Cantu's Delphi 2009 Handbook - it has about 90 pages on Unicode in Delphi. I think Bob Swart has a similar (less detailed) book. There is also some videos from one of the CodeRage events (probably CodeRage 3 or 4). Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04

Re: [DUG] Icon creation

do other people do for button images? Draw their own? get pre-built packs? have an in-house graphic artist? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 10/11/2010 9:26 a.m., Nick Fauchelle wrote

Re: [DUG] Icon creation

I made this video a few years ago http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27 http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27 making icons with GiMP. However there are some quite good free standalone Icon editors. Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] Barcamp possibly?

Yup, plenty of stuff that I should be using. I did a video a few years back for coderage 3 http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=80Itemid=27 http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=80Itemid=27 which is about 50 minutes long. Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] Barcamp possibly?

I could probably justify traveling a couple times a year for some training. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 27/10/2010 7:41 p.m., Richard Vowles wrote: I was thinking before

Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials

). There is also hundred's of hours of video http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Delphi_Videos and you can also monitor/subscribe to the Delphi Feeds http://www.delphifeeds.com/ page, which has many useful articles and blog posts. http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Delphi_Videos Alister Christie Computers

Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials

Comments in Red, although much of this argument now falls into the who cares? category. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 22/10/2010 10:38 a.m., Jolyon Smith wrote: Adding green. J

Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials

Perhaps some sort of Delphi Code Camp or Code-a-thon? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 22/10/2010 12:38 p.m., Ian Gmail wrote: I've watched the ongoing discussions re upgrading

Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials

is for Native binaries. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http

[DUG] Wellington DUG

I'm going to try to get a Wellington DUG going, are there any other Wellington Delphi users in the group? or does anyone know of any other Wellington based Delphi developers? -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085

Re: [DUG] Wellington DUG

Awesome - that makes 4 Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 22/10/2010 2:53 p.m., Steve Peacocke wrote: Not currently commercially developing but still enjoying Delphi so yes, I'll

[DUG] CodeRage5

Has anyone managed to register for CodeRage 5? I've tried a number of times, but have not received a confirmation email. -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington

Re: [DUG] CodeRage5

I ended up using a different email address, I had problems last year but I assumed it was related to being a presenter - I guess I'm just special ;-) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington

Re: [DUG] Rad Studio XE Enterprise

I've started porting stuff to it, most of the components that we use are working with it, but there are still a few outstanding ones that I haven't sorted yet. Our major product is currently stuck in D2007 because of one of the components it uses. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph

[DUG] package versioning

Does anyone understand how version numbers on packages are supposed to work for different versions of Delphi? Particularly when one package refers to another. I've not been able to find a good explanation of this, but it's something I'd really like to understand. -- Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] integer or int64

I had a friend who wrote a bignums unit for turbo pascal (5.5 I believe) when we were at school which could handle really really big numbers. His poor old XT took awhile to calculate some of these crazy numbers. There will likely be various libraries that you can use. Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] Pasting components from code

Or Frames for that matter, or custom components. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 17/09/2010 12:48 p.m., Jeremy North wrote: Why not form inheritence? Are you declaring the events

Re: [DUG] XE Upgrade

Downloading it now Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 31/08/2010 10:29 a.m., Jeremy Coulter wrote: Anyone else had an email about getting their XE upgrade? I just got mine now

[DUG] Delphi XE (2011)

cool. Opinions? -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http

[DUG] formatting a string for HTML

Is there a nice easy function to convert a delphi string to one that is suitable for rendering in a browser (converting to amp; etc...). -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington

Re: [DUG] formatting a string for HTML

Not quite as comprehensive as I was after, but I guess I'll start with that - cheers. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 28/07/2010 11:55 a.m., Conor Boyd wrote: I use the StrHtmlEncode

Re: [DUG] Icon

Yes, GiMP rocks. I did a video a few years back (my first in fact) on creating icons http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27 http://codegearguru.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=12Itemid=27 Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax

Re: [DUG] Delphi on Windows Mobile

for it). You might be able to do something with Monotouch and Prism (for iPhone) - but I haven't investigated this as a possibility. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Colin/Mina wrote: Hi, I

Re: [DUG] Delphi on Windows Mobile

I'm not sure that the new licensing is an issue for monotouch as they support iPhoneOS 4 presently - I think the licensing is more aimed at Adobe (I'm not sure why Apple hates flash so much). But I'm sure others on this list know more about this than I. Alister Christie Computers

[DUG] csv files

-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin

Re: [DUG] csv files

I've just worked out there are some bugs in the file format, it seems to be doing something weird with escaping double quotes - so I'll have to wait until this is fixed - it's in a competitors code, so I'm going to have be a bit round-a-bout in getting them to fix it ;-) Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] TImage/ImageList/Transparent/XP Manifest

I've used pngs for this and a TPNGImageList - although I think these components have been discontinued. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington John Bird wrote: I solved the problem

Re: [DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi?

is probably not the best idea - what memory location does this point to anyway? 0x? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington sinu sudhakaran wrote: Hi all, I came across a strange bug

Re: [DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi?

I think the point I was trying to make is that it is that the method (/array indexer or whatever) was expecting a TObject - passing anything else could result in unexpected results. The fact that -1 doesn't work is therefor not a bug (unless you can have 1 byte sized objects). Alister

Re: [DUG] Thank God it's Friday ...

I think he might of being applying for a job and getting us to do his homework ;-) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Pedrocelli wrote: Fair enough, although I didn't see any other

[DUG] web scraping using IHTMLDocument2

. However say there there is an HTML element like div class=propertyInfoPrice: spanNegotiation/span/div How would I be able to find the divs where class=propertyInfo? (if anyone has much experience with IHTMLDocument2) -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http

Re: [DUG] web scraping using IHTMLDocument2

Thanks Cameron, It does indeed have that header, how do I make this work? XMLDocument1.FileName := 'c:\temp\test.htm'; XMLDocument1.Active := True; Gives me various errors, I suspect that that the file is not valid xml, or is there some other way of parsing it? Alister Christie Computers

[DUG] Outlook 2002/2003/2007 automation differences

I've previously been working with outlook 2002, pulling contacts/appointments in and out, but I'm having trouble with outlook 2003/2007. Does anyone know of the differences and the best way of supporting all 3 simultaneously? -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04

Re: [DUG] web scraping using IHTMLDocument2

Thanks, although it looks like the html documents are not xml compliant, so I'll probably have to either parse the file manually or continue experimenting with IHTMLDocument2 (and hopefully find some documentation for it). Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266

Re: [DUG] So off-topic it's ridiculous

. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Conor Boyd wrote: Ouch. The only time I've actually been knocked off my bike was by another cyclist. ;-) Using Delphi today? Sure. Although most of today

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

I have to say it looks pretty cool. My main concern is that they are going to get really popular and I'm going to have to start supporting it. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Xander

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

On 28/01/2010, at 11:56 AM, Alister Christie wrote: I have to say it looks pretty cool. My main concern is that they are going to get really popular and I'm going to have to start supporting it. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

E-Ink is pretty nice to read from - the contrast ratio is nowhere that of paper however. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Phil Scadden wrote: Is this the coolest thing ever? I will get

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

For me it wouldn't be a laptop replacement, but for a large chunk of the population it could replace laptop/desktop. Many people just use computers for web/email and some casual gaming. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box

Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT

At the end of the day an ipad is just another item that is going to end up in a landfill. I'd still like one however - though I doubt I'll be buying one myself - although maybe I'll need one for work. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary

in it. I've read a couple of books from the Pragmatic Bookshelf and have been quite happy with them. Especially the fact the books are DRM free. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Leigh

Re: [DUG] Delphi 2010 Issue

If you continue to be stuck you should ask on http://stackoverflow.com or the Delphi Newsgroups. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Willie Juson wrote: Hi All, I’m posting

Re: [DUG] Resizing images

The GiMP is always handy for image manipulation. Generally I draw my images in a really old version of Corel Draw, then use GiMP for transparance, shadows and so on. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville

Re: [DUG] Google Phone

I appreciate you looking up the info :-) Although I have to agree they're pretty pricey. Have you purchased any phones from them - are there any problems with warranties etc.? Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085

Re: [DUG] Recently used list

I don't think so - that was one of the new features of D2010 But I guess there might be a registry setting or something. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Robert martin wrote: Hi All

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

a new Delphi project in the last year? 3. Started a new project in another language in the last year (what was the language)? 4. What other languages are you using learning? My Answers 1. Yes, 2. No, 3. No, 4. C# (Compact Framework) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471

Re: [DUG] Editing date from two tables

might want to take a look at the CloneCursor method on TClientDataSet for sharing data in memory between two TClientDataSets. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Marshland Engineering wrote: I

Re: [DUG] HELP! : Windows7 64 bits - Delphi install issues

To fix the your problem with D7 modifying stuff in the program files folder, you could change the permissions on the D7 install directory to allow it. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington

Re: [DUG] The Friday Afternoon Diversion - Whither CodeGear ?

Yes I've noticed this also, but they had to use databasegear as datagear was already taken (and doesn't have quite the same ring to it). I'm going to have to rebrand my website (probably to delphitutor.com) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http

Re: [DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in Chch?

I believe that native ARM development is (or at least was) being explored for Delphi - but we are unlikely to see it for at least 2 years. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Todd Martin

Re: [DUG] Launch event shennanigans

I'm pretty sure I heard the Just kidding bit, and certainly felt that there was no hint malice in the comment. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Richard Vowles wrote: It has also been

Re: [DUG] Windows XP - Programs Listing

I've given up on the start menu (it takes to long to load, and takes ages for me to find anything in it) and started using a program called Launchy. http://www.launchy.net/ Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085

Re: [DUG] Windows XP - Programs Listing

I've just booked my flights to Auckland for the 13th - so I hope so ;-) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington John Bird wrote: Checking - is the Delphi 2010 event still on 13/14 Oct in Ak

Re: [DUG] Free Pascal

had a few difficulties with drivers (although admittedly windows is no better), but mostly things just run. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington John Bird wrote: Aside - had a look at a 9.04

Re: [DUG] IDE Add-ins

There was a Castalia presentation at CodeRage 4 (which I haven't watched yet) http://conferences.embarcadero.com/coderage/sessions I used a free version with D2006, but I was having stability problems in the IDE so uninstalled it (although probably not Castalia's fault). Alister Christie

Re: [DUG] Upgrade considerations

D2006 - 7 was very easy as the .bpls were compatible. I still haven't upgraded much to D2009/10 except for one half of a client server app, which I got running on D2009, then converted it to D2010 (with a firebird back end). Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471

Re: [DUG] Budget/Turbo editions of Delphi

still old) which had 10MB Hard disks. They switched to Java sometime later and I have no idea what they are teaching now. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Jolyon Smith wrote: FWIW - I

Re: [DUG] Upgrade considerations

, networking issues and so on). Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Sean Cross wrote: I think my next development environment will be a Virtual Machine which will allow me to experiment a bit more

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

- but I'm not sure how that would work. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Jeremy North wrote: Report No: 77686 (RAID: 272876) Status: Open There are undocumented UNIT_EXPERIMENTAL

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Are we talking about Anders Hejlsberg? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg He's a pretty smart guy. I think he is the chief architect for C# rather than .net Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville

Re: [DUG] delphi vs java vs .net vs prism vs vs vs vs

% A I should probably do more blogging on "Delphi programming" ;-) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Richard Vowles wrote: I recommend people go look at the Tiobe ind

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Here is a question.. Can C# compile into native code? or is it .Net only? I believe there is a mono project to compile C# natively - primarily so they can develop apps for the IPhone. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box

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versions of Delphi are very good. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Leigh Wanstead wrote: I agree what you said. I think upgrade policy should apply to Delphi 7 which I own a professional

Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

I think anyone still using Delphi 8 should get a free upgrade - they've suffered enough. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Jeremy North wrote: If you are still using really old versions

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them gaining significant market share from Micro$oft in the developer tools market, it would be nice if they did though. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Steve Peacocke wrote: Agreed. Borland

Re: [DUG] Demo / Samples / Examples for D2010

You could of course watch the CodeRage conference going on currently ;-) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Rohit Gupta wrote: Is there a demo app somewhere that can quickly show me what

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