Using D2007 and Rave reports - should be easy to produce a PDF version of a
text file report.
The reports need to be printed using a non-proportional font, which is why I
would like to use PDF rather than Notepad (which is often set to display in
proportional fonts and users do not know how to
Have code working now nicely, email me if anyone wants what I am using.
Is there a way to find the default settings from Outlook or Registry for:
1 - smtp setting
2 - users email address (for the From: address)
At present I have to ask the users for this, should ideally be set from default
;
end;
end;
except
EmailFailed := True ;
end ;
end ;
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Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 1:47 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Email/SMTP code
Trying to debug this SMTP program, having tweaked the code a little – I am
getting “Connection timed out”
However I cannot debug, as on Windows 7 this program requires admin access.
I restarted the IDE (BDS.EXE) running as administrator but still get the error
message
“Cannot create process”
begin
Result := msgTo+': '+e.Message ;
EmailFailed := True ;
end;
end ;
end ;
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2011 6:06 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re
Here is details of the “unable to create process” when I try to debug the SMTP
test program on Windows 7, with the IDE running as administrator
in case anyone has a bright idea whats going on
[20885408]{dbkdebugide100.bpl} Debug.TDebugger.DBKError (Line 11445,
Debug.pas + 3) + $23
FYI - Removed a not needed SMTP component from the test project and restarted
the PC – I think it was the latter, that somehow Windows 7 remembered something
about the project/exe and still put UAC on it. Then debugger worked without
Run as Administrator.
John Bird
JBCL
Contact:
johnkb
Anyone got a recommendation for the best (free) code/samples to drive Indy10
for sending an email with attachment
-Indy10.2.3
-Send attachment
-SMTP server and email addresses will be known
I have tried a couple (eg AtoZed SendMail example) but it seems to time out
connecting to the SMTP
;
IdMessage.Free ;
end;
end;
except
EmailFailed := True ;
end ;
end ;
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 1:47 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Email/SMTP code
Jolyon I imagine you have an opinion on doing this your way rather than like
this example below – I would be interested in hearing your reasoning.
A similar example – this is the sort of code I have been using
setlength(temp, 100); //has to be big enough first
setlength(temp,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks
good overview - covers
1.1 Perl
1.2 PHP
1.3 Java
1.4 Python
1.5 Ruby
1.6 CFML (ColdFusion)
1.7 ASP.NET
1.8 Other
So I guess these are the major players.
John
-Original Message-
From: Sean Cross
Sent: Tuesday, June
That was the MS principle - EEE
ie, Embrace, Extend (in a non-standard way), Extinguish (the alternatives).
They tried and failed that in the Java world already with J++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B
which includes the interesting quotes from internal MS emails:
Retrieved
I am mystified why any government organisations would be stuck on IE6 given
its the best door for any hacker wanting to intrude into a system. Its how
Google was penetrated 18 months ago - hackers found workstations that had to
use IE6 for historical reasons (reasons that were not all that
I am an outside observer of Web development as I don't personally do it
either, but interested to find the best practice tools to pick up, as its
such a promising area for the future. I guess like a lot of Delphi
programmers, if we are going to pick up web development (and seems to be the
I have a related question - I have been wondering how to display data in a
dataset that is not either simple integer, string or date-time.
Examples are:
dates stored as an 8 digit integer (MMDD) (want to display as
dd-mmm- and I already have the code to format it how I want)
IRD
I am planning to be there
John
From: Alister Christie
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 3:26 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] NZ Developer Day - invitation
I'm registered and flights booked, is there any other out of town-ers attending?
Alister Christie
Computers
Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] File/Dir Open at My Computer
John,
the TDriveCombobox should do the trick.
On 20/05/2011 1:35 a.m., John Bird wrote:
I want to bring up a dialog to select a drive (Will be usually a removable
USB drive). Can I do this with any of the standard Delphi
and looks good too.
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nz
wrote:
Well it is what I was looking for but I probably won’t use it as it is
incredibly ugly – as in it has Windows 3.1 look. Is this really the most
modern version of selecting a drive I can use
I want to bring up a dialog to select a drive (Will be usually a removable USB
drive). Can I do this with any of the standard Delphi TOpenDialog or
SelectDirectory etc?
Ideally I want to bring up a dialog starting at My Computer...(D2007)
[Aside - I know how to show My Computer by starting
Monday 6th is Queens birthday holiday in case anyone has not twigged. Is that
likely to affect travel for anyone from out of town? Or availability of anyone
who might be on holidays otherwise? I am from Chch so availability of cheap
flights is important.
John
From: Cameron Hart
Sent:
I have found a couple of minor oddities like this with one program starting
another under Windows 7 – I also have a menu program that starts others, one of
them an update program. This update program does run but does not show over
other windows – mainly because I get a UAC prompt about
I am writing a program to copy one or more folder trees to a USB drive (an
extra backup regime for some Canterbury firms who were not able to get at
servers or finding their offsite backups were also inaccessible).
I have a nice component HAHFindFile to build the list of folders and files in a
Good grief lighten up! From what I heard - using a WiFi connection from the
street was not a plan for disaster recovery, it was good kiwi improvisation.
The point I was making was that in Christchurch in 2011, as happened in
Greymouth around 1986 with floods, I dealt with firms where the
Well I think a good idea could be a short open session where long term
developers share their tips on tools and procedures that maximise their
productivity. I have 2 or 3 small tips I would add to such a discussion...and
would love to hear from others their developed tools and procedures!
I have a modal form that gets called to do some processing (involving Indy),
and when it has finished if all is OK I am trying to get the end code after the
Indy stuff to show status (which it does) and close the form (which it doesn’t).
The statement form2.close is being executed but is not
versions than the '100' indicated in your error msg.
They go in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RAD Studio\5.0\Dcp (remove the
old '100' ones)
HTH,
Steve
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are D2007).
John Bird
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I have been trying to upgrade D2007 to use Indy 10.2.3 rather than the default
installed 10.1.5.
It looks to be a minefield, as the web site instructions do not make it clear
how to do D2007 in particular as it was a binary compatible clone of D2006.
The Indy BPL files are all called
When you map the drive tick the optiion to “Restore mapping on logon”. That
way if a user loses the mapping you can just tell them to log out and logon
again to fix it. As long as the network connection is there when the PC
starts that normally works fine. If it doesn’t can be because a
I found a link on the list here where you could download the Delphi 2009
help files as .CHM which I did and added to the tools menu. Fast loading
and useful - worthy addition to the D2007 help. I also have the D7 help in
the tools menu too. Maybe someone has the link, I will try to
to be broken as the ethernet cord
dragged it off the table so it might need to be replaced
Nothing was left in the fridge or freezer either, and toaster was hanging by
its cord
We have redecorated the kitchen!
John Bird
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[DUG] Rhino MocksThis may not be the problem, but I have the impression its
generally cleaner to make sure a dataset is closed before altering either the
query or parameters or other linkages to data providers etc. You may wish to
make sure there is an optional close action as in:
if
by other companies such as seagate - not to uses shared drives. The
error given is C006.
On 12/02/2011 12:20 a.m., John Bird wrote:
?I have software used on networks that commonly uses its shared folder
server as a mapped drive, eg M:\MyFolder with M: mapped to
\\Server1\MySoftware
?I have software used on networks that commonly uses its shared folder
server as a mapped drive, eg M:\MyFolder with M: mapped to
\\Server1\MySoftware\
If a program runs from there, started as M:\MyFolder\MyProgram.exe , there
is a difference between XP and Windows 7:
XP
?Trying to debug a problem in a program that requires elevation - (it copies
exe files from an update to a working folder).
I cannot run hence debug it in the IDE, are there any ways to debug such a
program? I want to step through it to see where the access violation is.
Windows 7/D2007
[mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Wednesday, 9 February 2011 12:24 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Debug Windows 7 UAC
?Trying to debug a problem in a program that requires elevation - (it
copies exe files from an update to a working folder
For those on D7 or earlier, its worth pointing out that a professional version
of D7 also would not contain pretty much any of the things left out of the
Starter edition – so it is still a pretty good deal in my humble opinion.
ie those wanting a cheap upgrade from D5/D6/D7 can get this
There is another way as well, you can declare simple global variables –
depending where you declare it determines it’s scope - how visible it it is.
In this example string2 can be seen by any unit that uses this one, just as
Form11 (the particular instance of TForm11, and is also a global
confused looking at the code or trying to
compile it on a fresh install of Delphi !
Also note I changed the typo spelling of the subject because it was annoying me
:)
Cheers
Rob
On 21/01/2011 9:04 a.m., John Bird wrote:
There is another way as well, you can declare simple global variables
?That's the reason in my system the updater program is the only one run from
the updates folder - as that guarantees it runs the latest version
downloaded.
I also include in it any once-off housekeeping that needs to be done from
time to time - creating folders, quick system checks etc.
John
I do it slightly differently – I have a dedicated loader program which can
update a number of files and programs in one go. It runs as the
startup/splash screen for the main app menu.
Updated programs are in an update folder,
working programs are in a (local) folder
It does:
-Reads a list
D2007 IDE – I have noticed a consistent problem – when the PC gets hot, the
cursor will unexpectedly jump to wherever the mouse pointer/insert pointer is,
and typing happens there. As you can imagine its a good way to wreck
perfectly good code!.
I am assuming its a fault in the hardware as
?As others said, I reckon best way depends on what type of comms is going
on.
If its a large amount of structured data a file can make sense.
If response times and two way communication is important then you need
something event driven, such as socket or TCP.
The filewatcher you are using is
?Yes I find I have to run more than one browser to get every web site
working.
I take it to the extreme admittedly - I have Firefox V4 beta 8 pre-release
(nightly build), Chrome, Chrome V10 beta (Canary build), Opera v10, IE9
beta.
My internet banking was not working with Firefox V4 for a
?[Browsers contd]
10 seconds to page loaded is impressive when there are 269 tabs open in 20
groups, current group has 20+ tabs so all of those are pretty much loaded
too - so yes that is fast. 1 or 2 tabs is a lot faster again.
lots of tabs is useful if the browser handles it effortlessly,
?Nope - I mean it organises your currently loaded tabs into different
groups, and can show them in multiple ways including thumbnails. I do mean
tabs into groups.
Saved behind the scenes by the same SQLite engine (Session store) which
saves bookmarks and history.
John
From: Jolyon Smith
Here is a reference I picked up on the Firefox list about a a security hole in
Web Sockets – and affects Java, Flash and HTML5. Research done by Adam Barth
of Google.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg04744.html
http://www.adambarth.com/experimental/websocket.pdf
] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 11:08
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Web Sockets security hole
Here is a reference I picked up on the Firefox list about a a security hole in
Web Sockets – and affects Java, Flash and HTML5. Research done
?http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601089/detect-whether-current-windows-version-is-32-bit-or-64-bit
easiest way depends on whether Windows 7 or Server 2008, or older.
Simplest and most general over windows versions looks to be
ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable which is only set on 64 bit
... ;)
-Original Message-
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 13:47
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Help Detecting Windows Version
?http://stackoverflow.com/questions
I sort of disagree - A common VCL is the ideal solution.
What makes Delphi a success on Windows is that it is Pascal and also close
enough to the Windows controls that it produces what looks like native Windows
applications, using the best of Windows XP/Vista/7 appearances.
If they do a Mac
Test – sent two messages some hours earlier and neither appeared yet
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On 9/11/2010 5:32 p.m., John Bird wrote:
I have never read up on best practices/sizes etc for creating
program icons and BMP files for buttons/images etc. Anyone got any
good references to read up further??
q1 – I have figured how
Wellington
On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote:
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ
ew.html
Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
examples are at least working - see a sneak peek video at the above
address.
Says been
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-preview.html
Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
examples are at least working - see a sneak peek video at the above address.
Says been tested with Delphi 6.0, 7.0, 2005, 2006 and 2010.
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On 9/11/2010 5:32 p.m., John Bird wrote:
I have never read up on best practices/sizes etc for creating
program icons and BMP files for buttons/images etc. Anyone got any
good references to read up further??
q1 – I have figured how
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On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote:
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ
ew.html
Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
examples are at least working - see a sneak peek
?IT work is expected to pick up over the next few months. Just checked out
the latest language surveys at
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Top ones are still Java, C, C++, PHP, C#, Python. Delphi at number 12.
Java at 18% currently score more than 3x C# at
Iterating over a string is for the purpose of doing something with each
individual character..whether it is a ‘A’ or a 'A' with a ^ (caret) on
top of it. When I said the number of bytes in a character varies I was not
meaning the number of bytes in a Char - I was meaning the total
?I read in one of the references that UTF-32 was a more common standard on
Unix systems - which means I guess they have chosen the simplest format at
the trade off of using more space?
I think linux/Windows/MacOS use UTF-16 more commonly...
Anyway for the time being, as long as the data in
Thanks for the references, so I can answer most of the questions now.
Here is what I understand so far, if anyone has anything to add this will be
useful!
Extra question:
It looks like code like
for i:=1 to length(string1) do
begin
DoSomethingWithOneChar(string1[i]);
My main remaining question is the best way to handle code that up to now
looked like:
for i:=1 to length(string1) do
begin
DoSomethingWithOneChar(string1[i]);
end;
If I got the gist correctly, string1[i] is one unicode character, but
length(string1) is the number of
...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Colin Johnsun
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 14:31
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Upgrading to XE - Unicode strings questions
I won't answer everything but just on this one question:
On 23 November 2010 11:04, John Bird
Planning upgrading from D2007 to XE, but want to read up on issues I will
need to consider first to do with strings becoming Unicode by default. I
recall the release of D2009 came with good white papers explaining
ramifications, however I haven’t seen these as I haven’t upgraded. Asked
?Cannot see how this is Embarcaderos fault.
I have seen Mail Marshall refuse an attachment with a .ZIP extension. I
then sent the ZIP file with a .DAT extension which also got blocked. I had
assumed a .DAT was the most general and innocuous and least blocked
extension until then (as it
Is this IDEFixPack worth installing for D2007? This rings a bell – I might
have tried this or something like it when D2007 first came out, and it made
little difference. What really did make a huge difference was doubling my
RAM. It was obviously having to swap different parts of the IDE
I have never read up on best practices/sizes etc for creating program icons
and BMP files for buttons/images etc. Anyone got any good references to read
up further??
q1 – I have figured how to create a BMP with transparent background for bit
buttons etc so the image is not square. How do I
Forgive the duplicate post. This time not my fault – someone at Telstra is
no doubt sweating and swearing and cursing trying to get their email systems
going again including Paradise, so looks like they are sending some messages
twice.
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?Sort of similar config, except 32bit Windows 7 with 4GB Ram, and a VMware
XP with D2007 and 1GB allocated.
I find the performance of the VMWare virtual PC the worst aspect of it - the
XP virtual machine is really prone to triggering intense disk writes - which
looks like Windows XP starting
Would be very interested.
Was talking to Gary B (who runs the list) – he also has been thinking of
setting up a library where people can contribute code for benefit of others,
and pick up others tricks.I for instance do all my printing with Rave by
displaying the stuff on the screen in
?I don't think it would be hard to find topics -
For instance off the top of my head:
-it would be interesting to see the sort of programs others are doing
-Their favourite tips and tricks
-some IDE/OO/language education and explanations
-debugging techniques
-tools that others use and how they
John
From: Jolyon Smith
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:53 AM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials
Ø Aw nuts you are just being a stirrer.
Why is pointing out facts considered stirring?
I think the best answer to that is the one Josh
I agree, something with real limitations but real usefulness. A Turbo
version would be great.
Possible ideas would be
1 – Executables only run on the PC with the Turbo licence. otherwise full
version but cheap
2 – Executables have a built in expiry date of 1 year from when compiled.
?Maybe a related topic - How to make it easy to upgrade.
The main reasons I hear from others for not upgrading are (with my
experience in brackets):
1 - locked into 3rd party components with no new versions or expensive new
versions
[I luckily have steered clear of addon components, except
Well thats nuts.
As a user of both Delphi 5 and D2007, you would have to be nuts to want to work
in D5 if you spend any time programming. It works, and quite well, but D2007
and later are so much nicer, and faster to do stuff.If you value your time
and are programming for anything
I would like to find some system settings -
eg volume ID of a drive (which might be a network drive), and time zone. Any
suggestions?
Related - I recall seeing a unit somewhere years ago that showed a lot of
windows settings (eg Windir) I am not sure what it was and where, anyone know
of
Aw nuts you are just being a stirrer.
I actually use D5 and D2007 both a lot for work. So thats my experience – I
greatly prefer D2007.
For me a pro upgrade is $600-700 so thats also true.
The point about Windows updates are:
MS updates Windows still (mind you only XP SP3 onwards now) not
Is there a mailing list to get offers like this? I hadn’t heard of this or
the XE event until it came up here on the Delphi list.
Please add me to any such lists.
John
From: Richard Vowles
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:33 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG]
How much longer is upgrade from D2007 likely to be counted as an upgrade – any
ideas or hints?
John
Hi Paul,
Everyone who doesn't have a 2010 version of the product (Delphi/C++/RAD
Studio), if you are on 2009, 2007 or 2006 upgrade-wise or earlier (who have to
purchase new now).
On 18
?I have a generalised routine for printing forms using Rave reports D2007.
I struck an interesting problem printing contents of a DBGrid showing
columns from a MSSQL database - I think its because the fields are null or a
type (eg binary) that ClientDataSets cannot display. Printing that
Yeah – what invite? I am waiting too.
John
Hi Richard
I'm still waiting for my invite - you can send it to my work address if that's
easier.
davi...@pegasus.org.nz
Cheers
David
On 30/09/10 16:14, Richard Vowles wrote:
Hi guys,
If all goes to plan, you should get some email from us
Ha - does it still do that?
(D2007 here)
The instant compiler does not always find stuff. Such as TEdit for
instance. As long as normal compile works I can live with it
John
Anyone actually using XE yet?
We're using 2009 and still some buggy things in the IDE which would make
me
Quite a few built in Delphi functions accept either integer or int64 as an
argument, I checked into inttostr for instance, in that case its asm code.
I have quite a few standard number processing routines, and up to now have
done one version for integer, and another for int64.
Is it feasible
I have a calculator program, beyond certain size numbers it resorts to real
numbers, when sometimes I want exact integers.
eg 17! (17Factorial) is the highest I can get exactly (17*16*15 etc.), 18!
turns to a real number and I don't know if I am losing digits.
Another example of large
Thanks, I had sort of figured it out, but I didn't know the reason.
John
So before the initial private (or any other) visiblity directive.
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I have a source generation program to speed creating of sets of labels and
edit boxes on a form - which gives output like examples below.
I paste the code that goes in the DFM onto the form, and it creates all the
components - a neat Delphi trick for those who might not know.
My problem is
The correct spot being? (that was my question! - there looks to be rules I
did not know about. )
Form inheritance - not applicable so much in this case, as the set of labels
and edit boxes vary totally from case to case. I just got tired of the
repetitive task of creating large sets of
Thats a cute program!
Only correction needed is spelling - (Magnitude). The icon is spookily
appropriate - did you make it yourself or do you have access to a site with
earthquake icons?
John
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:50 PM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers
Out of curiosity what is the page control you are using and the chart
component? I like both
John
HI guys. Here is the URL.
http://www.telsoft.net.nz/downloads/quake/QuakeCheck.zip
There might be the odd bug. I was really only doing it for my own amusement,
but nothing too obvious has
d.. Magnitude: 3.4
e.. Depth: 8 km
f.. Details: 10 km south-west of Christchurch
My house is in Mt Pleasant, but have been in Ak the last week. Decidedly
mixed feelings about not being there. House was OK last report, but thats some
30 aftershocks ago!
John Bird
JBCL
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Not just Delphi - its an ancient Windows problem AFAIK. Even in Windows 7 I
have seen a control panel applets puts a modal dialog behind the window - often
the best solution is Windows+D (show desktop) and go thru all windows with
alt+Tab and usually the hidden modal dialog is found.
.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:43 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz
Subject: [DUG] Sending notification between programs
Which way would you favour to do
I had thought of something just like this, having something in the data being
what B looks for and acts on, otherwise sleeps. However this makes it disk
based, and B has to poll. I was hoping something simple in memory could wake
up B rather than referring to the filesystem.
The main
Which way would you favour to do the following ?
I have two Delphi programs (A and B) that I will pass data from A to B - I will
probably use a file to put the data in because its quite structured. B will
sleep on a timer loop until this something is triggered.
What I want to do is send a
I think I have to agree with your words[5] and words[6] . Where -
words:array[0..xxx] of string;
John
I work on systems where some idiot used a decimal(9,0) as a PK and mixed it
with other tables with integers, I think with any PK the main thing is use the
same otherwise you force the
MessageDealing with index/ID field that is set as binary - here is the solution
that worked in case any one else comes across same
Note for MSSQL using such a field in a JOIN SQL statement would be perfectly
fine as normal, as MSSQL has a native binary type. Delphi ADO however does
not,
Dealing with a MSSQL database where the ID field is defined as Binary ( 8 ) and
using D2007 / ADO. I can open the table and read in data, but I cannot figure
out:
1 - how to get the ID value out of this field - when displayed a grid shows
this column as (BYTES), if I try to get the value as
A Windows 7 Clock look-alike this time - a bit smaller, fainter and more
refined than the last one. For screenshots, scroll to the bottom of this page:
http://sites.google.com/site/jbclnz2/abouttime
Email me if you would like a copy - standalone exe of 480K. Written using
D2007/Windows 7.
Any good reference tutorials on using this? I looked at it some years ago and
was quite baffled where to start. Speaking as someone used to driving the
drawcell events on standard stringgrids I would like to explore the stuff it
can do.
John
Is that not also the one that Embarcadero use too
Well as I understand using 120DPI is for the same reason - making app windows
larger and easier to read on the screen - or at least the text larger. I have
users with oldest to newest screens - from about 800x600 up to 1920x1024 so I
have to do something like this for the form to be fairly
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