Re: [DUG] Jira book on special today
I tried but it changes the price to $15.99. How can you tell it to purchas at the front page deal of the day price??? Steve On 13/06/2011, at 3:03 PM, Colin Johnsun colin.a...@gmail.com wrote: Just bought the eBook. I've only so far read the first chapter on roles vs groups and all I can say is that it seems to fill in the gaps that the online documentation leaves out. In that respect it is worth having. With Jira only costing $10 and the ebook at only $8. Its probably the cheapest commercial issue tracker on the market. Cheers, Colin On 13 June 2011 08:31, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: For those at the Embarcadero event in Auckland last week, you will remember Richard talking about Jira, O'Reilly have a short Jira book on sale today (US $8) for those wanting to get started with issue tracking http://oreilly.com/ I haven't read the book (yet) so I don't know if it is any good - 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 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Jira book on special today
Never mind - user error! Steve On 13/06/2011, at 3:48 PM, Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.net wrote: I tried but it changes the price to $15.99. How can you tell it to purchas at the front page deal of the day price??? Steve On 13/06/2011, at 3:03 PM, Colin Johnsun colin.a...@gmail.com wrote: Just bought the eBook. I've only so far read the first chapter on roles vs groups and all I can say is that it seems to fill in the gaps that the online documentation leaves out. In that respect it is worth having. With Jira only costing $10 and the ebook at only $8. Its probably the cheapest commercial issue tracker on the market. Cheers, Colin On 13 June 2011 08:31, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: For those at the Embarcadero event in Auckland last week, you will remember Richard talking about Jira, O'Reilly have a short Jira book on sale today (US $8) for those wanting to get started with issue tracking http://oreilly.com/ I haven't read the book (yet) so I don't know if it is any good - 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 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] PHP setup (was Web development)
Yea, I have been involved in 2 large development programs (as a manager, not a programmer) in RoR, both quite fast and successful. Works very well in a SCRUM development environment. One person mentioned that RoR is hobbled in that there seems only one way to do things - that is the very idea behind RoR. By having only one way to do things, development is consistent and speedy. A lot of assumptions can then be made by RoR which means it can write your application in a lot of places. As with all the comments, you still need JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Ajax to deliver apps, but on the whole both large development projects were very successfully delivered. Steve Peacocke On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Vik Vasudev vikas.im...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, After going through all the thread related to webdevelopment. I decided to give a try on ROR. So far it looks ok to me. Just wondering if anyone has used it to develop commercial application. I heard many saying ROR is fast and effective. I have no idea of PHP though Just wondering. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Web development
connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation. And newer releases of php offer self serving capabilities as well. So it is an interesting time to be involved and to be (re-)entering the arena! If you just want simple drag and drop with a framework, Delphi for Php or Lazarus with phpo toolkit, will do most of that for you, plus you can extend things.. Here is an early blurb of Delphi for Php at the outset. http://www.delphi-php.net/2007/03/ Paul On 3 June 2011 16:35, Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.net wrote: Friday question (or Can of Worms) Hey guys, I'm looking at getting into serious web development. I used to do this a number of years ago with standard Delphi 6 at that time. I have Delphi 7 I've been looking seriously at Ruby on Rails but that would mean learning a whole new language and process There has been a lot of talk of the validity of using IntraWeb with Delphi. Perhaps others have a better suggestion? What do others use? Should I bite the bullet and jump to RoR or upgrade to D2011 or something else? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Web development
Yep. Got the HTML JavaScript. Need more CSS knowledge. RoR still a serious consideration but what about even 3rd party web VCL packs like TMS. Movie about to start. X-Men, guess there's geek still in me somewhere. Steve On 3/06/2011, at 5:48 PM, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: I think RoR is a fairly good choice and I've played with it a bit and am impressed - bit of a learning curve from Delphi. Whatever technology you choose, you'll likely need a good understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I don't think Intraweb is suitable for doing any serious web stuff - 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 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 3/06/2011 4:35 p.m., Steve Peacocke wrote: Friday question (or Can of Worms) Hey guys, I'm looking at getting into serious web development. I used to do this a number of years ago with standard Delphi 6 at that time. I have Delphi 7 I've been looking seriously at Ruby on Rails but that would mean learning a whole new language and process There has been a lot of talk of the validity of using IntraWeb with Delphi. Perhaps others have a better suggestion? What do others use? Should I bite the bullet and jump to RoR or upgrade to D2011 or something else? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Web development
Friday question (or Can of Worms) Hey guys, I'm looking at getting into serious web development. I used to do this a number of years ago with standard Delphi 6 at that time. I have Delphi 7 I've been looking seriously at Ruby on Rails but that would mean learning a whole new language and process There has been a lot of talk of the validity of using IntraWeb with Delphi. Perhaps others have a better suggestion? What do others use? Should I bite the bullet and jump to RoR or upgrade to D2011 or something else? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Web development
Thanks Berend, I'm not doing this for a job but working on my on applications at home in my spare time. I've been programming for many years but not as a job since about 2005. My next project will be totally web based and I've been thinking that I'd need to make the move to RubyonRails at that point, but before I make that commitment, I wondered if anyone was using Delphi successfully on good advanced web projects - or something else. I know the C#.NET argument is a pretty good argument but for some reasons I'm resisting that move. Steve On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Berend de Boer ber...@pobox.com wrote: Steve == Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.net writes: Steve Perhaps others have a better suggestion? What do others Steve use? Should I bite the bullet and jump to RoR or upgrade to Steve D2011 or something else? I mean, you're learning this for fun or for having a job? Not sure how many RoR jobs there are in NZ. Some years ago I heard that most Delphi programmers went to PHP. The PHP market in NZ is pretty robust, so that works. But if you want to stay in the Microsoft World, C# + ASPX or whatever the greatest latest technology is from M$ would be the best fit. -- All the best, Berend de Boer -- Awesome Drupal hosting: https://www.xplainhosting.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Web development
Yes I've discounted PHP too. Basically I'm hoping I can do everything in Delphi. However HTML, CSS JavaScript are required and thankfully I'm ok with all except CSS so only a bit of learning. I also want to host on Azure or Amazon or whatever so we're heading in the same direction there. I'm pretty impressed with the Ruby on Rails idea so may end up there eventually but at the moment that's just another learning hurdle. Steve On 3/06/2011, at 4:54 PM, Jolyon Smith jsm...@deltics.co.nz wrote: I have been thinking about this myself. I started trying to get to grips with PHP, but in the end got fed up with wrestling with HTML and CSS - working with those technologies is like stepping back in time in terms to tools and debugging etc, and I found it frustrating and tiresome. So at that point I decided that the next major web project I would do I would tackle very differently: 1. Build the functionality as a web service using Delphi - something I can then host in Azure or Amazon EC2 if I wish 2. Build a Delphi desktop app to exercise and test my service (and perhaps provide a desktop app GUI for the users) This allows me to leverage my expertise in Delphi and focus very much on the functionality of the web site without. Then, once enough of the web site functionality is in place in the web service... 3. Hire a web designer co. to build the web *GUI* 4. Ditto for an Android/iPhone app if appropriate -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Steve Peacocke Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 16:35 To: List NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi Subject: [DUG] Web development Friday question (or Can of Worms) Hey guys, I'm looking at getting into serious web development. I used to do this a number of years ago with standard Delphi 6 at that time. I have Delphi 7 I've been looking seriously at Ruby on Rails but that would mean learning a whole new language and process There has been a lot of talk of the validity of using IntraWeb with Delphi. Perhaps others have a better suggestion? What do others use? Should I bite the bullet and jump to RoR or upgrade to D2011 or something else? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] New Zealand Maps
Mapdata Sciences http://www.mapds.com.au/Products/QuickMapDeveloperToolkit/tabid/121/Default.aspx http://www.mapds.com.au/Products/QuickMapDeveloperToolkit/tabid/121/Default.aspxYes, there is a licence fee but talk to them. These are the guys who supplied Google with their mapping data right up until late last year. I did a 6 month stint as their product marketing manager for their QuickMap product. They are now owned by ESRI Australia. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: We've been using mapzone.co.nz to generate maps based on NZ street addresses. Our software produces flyers (on, gasp, paper) for real estate, however mapzone.co.nz is closing down. Does anyone know of a nice web service (that doesn't have huge licensing fees) where maps can be reproduced? -- 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: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Access to street maps
Hi Mark, You will need to change the address to the XY coordinates in order to display the map. Yes, all is possible using JavaScript and the Google Maps API. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.htmland http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/ Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:22 AM, mark w...@kol.co.nz wrote: I have a D2009 application which holds the addresses of employees and the customers they service. Is there a way that I can display a map with a selected address? Ideally, I would also like to be able to get the distance between two addresses. I assume that this information is available from Google or Wises, but have no idea how to go about accessing it. I’m guessing it will be a Web Service, with which I have limited experience (I have an interface to one). Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Mark ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Access to street maps
Caution - Please review the terms of service for yourself. It's only free in certain circumstances. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote: yip its free. You just have to register with them to access the Google API docs etc. I dont know why. Maybe they just want to add your details to their database :-) Jeremy On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Leigh Wanstead leigh.wanst...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Jeremy, May I ask to use google maps service is free? TIA Regards Leigh 2011/3/14 Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com The other thing to note too if you want to use Google Maps to display locations you need to signup and get a key that you need to pass through each time you make a call which is fine if you will only be calling it from the same location as it is tied to a Domain name. We do exactly what you are doing to show surgery locations and various other things at work. Took a bit of time to figure it out, but it works well. Also something interesting I noticed the other day. My wife was using Wises online the other day, I noticed they use Google now too...any why not ;-) Jeremy *From:* delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Monday, 14 March 2011 07:28 *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Access to street maps Hi Mark, You will need to change the address to the XY coordinates in order to display the map. Yes, all is possible using JavaScript and the Google Maps API. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html and http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/ Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:22 AM, mark w...@kol.co.nz wrote: I have a D2009 application which holds the addresses of employees and the customers they service. Is there a way that I can display a map with a selected address? Ideally, I would also like to be able to get the distance between two addresses. I assume that this information is available from Google or Wises, but have no idea how to go about accessing it. I’m guessing it will be a Web Service, with which I have limited experience (I have an interface to one). Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Mark ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Access to street maps
I was the Product Marketing Manager for the company that, up to a few months ago, used to supply the data to Google Maps. Yes, essentially you are right and Google have not really worked very hard at gaining revenue from that source, however that time will come and it is important to know where you stand. Essentially, once you have turnover, then you will need to purchase commercial licences but hopefully that will mean that you are making lots of money. - Google will want some that money. Actually, I think that its a great commercial licence. I only wish Delphi and some toolmakers used the same licence. I'd love to develop stuff using, for example the latest Delphi and Woll2Woll's InfoPower tools but I just can't justify the licence cost until I get over a certain turnover, THEN I could buy them. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote: bah.just tick I agree dont read itthen you can plead ignorance...hehehe Yeah its only free if you are not going to make $$ from it and not going to have 50,000 hits a day.pretty muchbut do read the terms just incase ;-) Jeremy On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.netwrote: Caution - Please review the terms of service for yourself. It's only free in certain circumstances. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.comwrote: yip its free. You just have to register with them to access the Google API docs etc. I dont know why. Maybe they just want to add your details to their database :-) Jeremy On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Leigh Wanstead leigh.wanst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jeremy, May I ask to use google maps service is free? TIA Regards Leigh 2011/3/14 Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com The other thing to note too if you want to use Google Maps to display locations you need to signup and get a key that you need to pass through each time you make a call which is fine if you will only be calling it from the same location as it is tied to a Domain name. We do exactly what you are doing to show surgery locations and various other things at work. Took a bit of time to figure it out, but it works well. Also something interesting I noticed the other day. My wife was using Wises online the other day, I noticed they use Google now too...any why not ;-) Jeremy *From:* delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Monday, 14 March 2011 07:28 *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Access to street maps Hi Mark, You will need to change the address to the XY coordinates in order to display the map. Yes, all is possible using JavaScript and the Google Maps API. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html and http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/ Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:22 AM, mark w...@kol.co.nz wrote: I have a D2009 application which holds the addresses of employees and the customers they service. Is there a way that I can display a map with a selected address? Ideally, I would also like to be able to get the distance between two addresses. I assume that this information is available from Google or Wises, but have no idea how to go about accessing it. I’m guessing it will be a Web Service, with which I have limited experience (I have an interface to one). Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. Mark ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook
Thanks Rodney, I'm trying it out - not sure of living in the world of the little teeny-weeny for too long but it will allow me to get some work done without lugging around the larger system. plus it allows me to work without the power plug (Hello cappuccinos) for longer. My laptop only works for about 30 minutes but I can get a good 6 hours from the netbook. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profilehttp://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Rodney Chan rc...@compuspec.com wrote: I have D6/WinXP on my Netbook and it is working fine. I guess it should be also OK for D7 as the requrement is similar. Only concern is the screen is a bit small for doing actually work for a long period of time. Other thing is, the screen resolution may be different from your client. I use the utility from Asus to scroll the screen so that I can get a 1024 x 768 (or bigger) virtual screen on my netbook if needed. -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]On Behalf Of delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz Sent: Monday, 14 March 2011 7:23 a.m. To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: Delphi Digest, Vol 89, Issue 16 Send Delphi mailing list submissions to delphi@delphi.org.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserver.123.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz You can reach the person managing the list at delphi-ow...@delphi.org.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Delphi digest... Today's Topics: 1. Delphi 7 on a Netbook (Steve Peacocke) 2. Re: Delphi Starter Edition (Paul A Norman) 3. Delphi for PHP (Graham Marsden) 4. Re: Delphi for PHP again (Rohit Gupta) 5. Re: Delphi for PHP (Rohit Gupta) 6. Access to street maps (mark) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:26:56 +1300 From: Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.net Subject: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook To: List NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi delphi@delphi.org.nz Message-ID: 4cc8d2c7-8481-4869-a413-9a3af6871...@peacocke.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I was wondering if anyone has successfully used Delphi 7 on a netbook (win xp). I'm heading off and will have only my netbook with me. As I was working on a Delphi 7 project I was wondering if I could get away with just the little Netbook (asus eeepc 1001) and not have to take the full laptop. Steve Peacocke 0220 612-611 -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:36:38 +1300 From: Paul A Norman paul.a.nor...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz Message-ID: aanlktikrq6dny1b47v0yevorsd_ofahj8s3qaho13...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks Joylon and Todd, that has sorted that out, ... I had been wondering the way things were worded whether you could use 3rd party things like Zeos, or if databasing capabilities were limited strictly to only what was described in the feature matrix. (Remembering the Turbo thingies they put out that didn't even let you add components.) We are charitable non-commercial (take no payments) so I take it we would fit under the $USD1000 at all times? Paul On 9 March 2011 17:11, Todd todd.martin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul ZEOS certainly connects to MySql. Todd. Looking through the feature matrix, I was not sure, can Delphi Starter connect to an MySql database on local or other server please? Paul On 31 January 2011 21:06, Malcolm Groves malcolm.gro...@embarcadero.com wrote: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter Cheers Malcolm Malcolm Groves Senior Director, Asia Pacific and Japan Embarcadero Technologies http://www.embarcadero.com Phone: +61 416 264 204 Skype: malcolmgroves CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Access to street maps
Good answer but wrong question :-) On 14/03/2011, at 10:27 AM, Jolyon Smith jsm...@deltics.co.nz wrote: I am guessing that the “certain turnover” you have in mind is significantly higher than the US$1000 revenue limit attached to “Starter” Edition. If you do the math on those license terms, basically Embarcadero want your first $1000 revenue for themselves – they take a $200 down payment then grab the next $800 as soon as you earn it, taking you over the $1000 limit triggering the point at which you then have to pay to upgrade to “Pro”, which will cost you 100% of that $800 you just earned. So you better be sure of earning not just that initial $1000, but AT LEAST $270/annum thereafter if you want to stay current (that’s what your “Revenue Assurance”, ahem, I mean “Software Assurance” will cost you). Oops, actually, you’ll need to earn $1270, since when you upgrade from Starter to Pro you’ll need an additional $270 for your initial Revenue Assurance payment. Imho this renders Starter Edition dead in the water for the open source/community/hobby developers that Embarcadero claim to be aiming it at, for whom revenue is a potentially sporadic and uncertain thing someone could *easily* “earn” over $1000 in the first year then significantly less than that thereafter. You don’t get to deduct any costs from these revenue numbers, so even if everything you “earn” from Delphi gets sunk into hosting/traffic costs for providing your work to the community etc, Embarcadero don’t care – it’s not profit they are counting, only income/revenue. If they absolutely had to have a revenue threshold (as some sort of corporate/enterprise licensing woobie blanket) , it should have been nearer $5K or even $10K. imho From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Steve Peacocke Sent: Monday, 14 March 2011 09:42 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Access to street maps I was the Product Marketing Manager for the company that, up to a few months ago, used to supply the data to Google Maps. Yes, essentially you are right and Google have not really worked very hard at gaining revenue from that source, however that time will come and it is important to know where you stand. Essentially, once you have turnover, then you will need to purchase commercial licences but hopefully that will mean that you are making lots of money. - Google will want some that money. Actually, I think that its a great commercial licence. I only wish Delphi and some toolmakers used the same licence. I'd love to develop stuff using, for example the latest Delphi and Woll2Woll's InfoPower tools but I just can't justify the licence cost until I get over a certain turnover, THEN I could buy them. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profile On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote: bah.just tick I agree dont read itthen you can plead ignorance...hehehe Yeah its only free if you are not going to make $$ from it and not going to have 50,000 hits a day.pretty muchbut do read the terms just incase ;-) Jeremy On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.net wrote: Caution - Please review the terms of service for yourself. It's only free in certain circumstances. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profile On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote: yip its free. You just have to register with them to access the Google API docs etc. I dont know why. Maybe they just want to add your details to their database :-) Jeremy On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Leigh Wanstead leigh.wanst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jeremy, May I ask to use google maps service is free? TIA Regards Leigh 2011/3/14 Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com The other thing to note too if you want to use Google Maps to display locations you need to signup and get a key that you need to pass through each time you make a call which is fine if you will only be calling it from the same location as it is tied to a Domain name. We do exactly what you are doing to show surgery locations and various other things at work. Took a bit of time to figure it out, but it works well. Also something interesting I noticed the other day. My wife was using Wises online the other day, I noticed they use Google now too...any why not ;-) Jeremy From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Steve Peacocke Sent: Monday, 14 March 2011 07:28 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Access to street maps Hi Mark, You will need to change the address to the XY
Re: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook
I'm sitting in the local cafe now using it and I'm very surprised at how well it works. I must admit I was thinking that it would be a lot worse but I can see everything open and work quite effectively. Steve Peacocke On 14/03/2011, at 11:40 AM, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: I remember developing in 800x600 or so in Delphi 3. Going to 1024x768 was a big upgrade ;-) I use to record my videos in 800x600, with a largish font - that's a bit painful in a modern IDE. I've just restarted making videos and have settled on 1280x720 (720p) which is supported on YouTube. 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 but it will allow me to get some work done without lugging around the larger system. plus it allows me to work without the power plug (Hello cappuccinos) for longer. My laptop only works for about 30 minutes but I can get a good 6 hours from the netbook. Steve Peacocke Mobile: 0220 612-611 Linkedin Professional Profile On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Rodney Chan rc...@compuspec.com wrote: I have D6/WinXP on my Netbook and it is working fine. I guess it should be also OK for D7 as the requrement is similar. Only concern is the screen is a bit small for doing actually work for a long period of time. Other thing is, the screen resolution may be different from your client. I use the utility from Asus to scroll the screen so that I can get a 1024 x 768 (or bigger) virtual screen on my netbook if needed. -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]On Behalf Of delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz Sent: Monday, 14 March 2011 7:23 a.m. To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: Delphi Digest, Vol 89, Issue 16 Send Delphi mailing list submissions to delphi@delphi.org.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserver.123.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz You can reach the person managing the list at delphi-ow...@delphi.org.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Delphi digest... Today's Topics: 1. Delphi 7 on a Netbook (Steve Peacocke) 2. Re: Delphi Starter Edition (Paul A Norman) 3. Delphi for PHP (Graham Marsden) 4. Re: Delphi for PHP again (Rohit Gupta) 5. Re: Delphi for PHP (Rohit Gupta) 6. Access to street maps (mark) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:26:56 +1300 From: Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.net Subject: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook To: List NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi delphi@delphi.org.nz Message-ID: 4cc8d2c7-8481-4869-a413-9a3af6871...@peacocke.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I was wondering if anyone has successfully used Delphi 7 on a netbook (win xp). I'm heading off and will have only my netbook with me. As I was working on a Delphi 7 project I was wondering if I could get away with just the little Netbook (asus eeepc 1001) and not have to take the full laptop. Steve Peacocke 0220 612-611 -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:36:38 +1300 From: Paul A Norman paul.a.nor...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz Message-ID: aanlktikrq6dny1b47v0yevorsd_ofahj8s3qaho13...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks Joylon and Todd, that has sorted that out, ... I had been wondering the way things were worded whether you could use 3rd party things like Zeos, or if databasing capabilities were limited strictly to only what was described in the feature matrix. (Remembering the Turbo thingies they put out that didn't even let you add components.) We are charitable non-commercial (take no payments) so I take it we would fit under the $USD1000 at all times? Paul On 9 March 2011 17:11, Todd todd.martin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul ZEOS certainly connects to MySql. Todd. Looking through the feature matrix, I was not sure, can Delphi Starter connect to an MySql database on local or other server please? Paul On 31 January 2011 21:06, Malcolm Groves malcolm.gro...@embarcadero.com wrote: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter Cheers Malcolm Malcolm Groves Senior Director, Asia Pacific and Japan Embarcadero Technologies http://www.embarcadero.com Phone: +61 416 264 204 Skype: malcolmgroves CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE
[DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook
I was wondering if anyone has successfully used Delphi 7 on a netbook (win xp). I'm heading off and will have only my netbook with me. As I was working on a Delphi 7 project I was wondering if I could get away with just the little Netbook (asus eeepc 1001) and not have to take the full laptop. Steve Peacocke 0220 612-611 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Wellington DUG
Not currently commercially developing but still enjoying Delphi so yes, I'll be a starter for that. I would have attended the roadshow but The Capital was not a stop for them. Steve Peacocke On 22/10/2010, at 2:42 PM, Alister Christie alis...@salespartner.co.nz wrote: 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 Johnsonville Wellington ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] hour / minute component
I'd suggest a simple edit box that allowed users to enter their times as they can based on some rules. This, if i read you correctly allows a person to enter munutes and/or hours eg : 3h 90m 1h 20m 2d 5h 45m 48h Then process the entry based on the simple rules. If someone enters sething you don't understand, then give a message showing the simple rules and ask them to enter again. This sort of time length entry works well in Jira (task/bug tracking) Steve Peacocke ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Thank God it's Friday ...
Gary said... *On the 100th day there is a bloodbath: all the men are killed by their wives.* Bloody typical - scheming, conniving women keeping a grudge for 100 days before revenge is exacted in a bout of fury! Thankfully I'm faithful but blimey! Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT
For $380.00 I just purchased a eeePC 1001HA ( http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=O2gIMUVTCKmZUZt5). This has - Windows XP - WiFi (fast) - 160GB HD - Long battery life (4+ hours on mine if I keep the backlight low) - built in camera (skype) - Multi-touch pad (pinch/zoom/etc) - A real keyboard - quite a good one actually - light as - actually useful rather than cool. - runs all the programs I've thrown at it so far Oh, and I do also have an iPhone where I can get my daily allowance of cool before I need to do some real work :o) Steve Peacocke On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Xander (GMail) xander...@gmail.com wrote: I can't believe there has been no chat about Apple's latest announcement this morning. Watch this video and tell me with a straight face that you don't want one yesterday: http://www.apple.com/ipad/ipad-video/#large Is this the coolest thing ever? I will get one for sure when it is available. Wi-Fi might be good enough for me, not sure I really need 3G. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] 1001HA
Actually, that's AU$. http://www.wireless1.com.au/ProductListing.aspx?Code=ASU1001HA-BLK036XName=ASUS%201001HA-036X%20BLACKCategory=Notebooks%20%26%20Desktops+Netbooks+Asus http://www.wireless1.com.au/ProductListing.aspx?Code=ASU1001HA-BLK036XName=ASUS%201001HA-036X%20BLACKCategory=Notebooks%20%26%20Desktops+Netbooks+AsusI've had it for about 3 weeks now and its really proven its worth to me. My big laptop home computer has been switched on only once during that time. Steve Peacocke On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Phil Scadden p.scad...@gns.cri.nz wrote: Actually Steve, where did you get the 1001HA for $380? -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Kyley Harris ky...@harrissoftware.comwrote: no product is ever the be all and end all. but I can guarantee that my children and grandparents will take an iphone or ipad over a desktop any day of the week.. they can learn it easily, just like the old palm pilots. Technology made simple is an excellent concept (if limiting to people who like to delve into advanced areas) I have had palm pilots, psion, apple, PC, iPhone, Blackberry, you name it. All have their uses however its always back to the workhorse computer for doing business. Yes, my iPhone has things like tasks, outliners, notes, email, browser, mindmapping, maps, even my bible is on there, but I still drop straight back into a PC (albeit the eeePC now) whenever I need to get some serious work or typing done. I can do quick email replies but get to the computer for anything thoughtful. For example, I read this post on the iPhone, but went straight to the PC to type out the reply as it was more than a simple couple of lines. I doubt very much if it will be the iPad vs the PC as the discussion has been - it's more likely to be the iPhone or iPad PLUS the PC. Just because something is easy to use, doesn't make it automatically better. Why would you learn to drive a car when riding a bike, or even walking is much easier to do? Steve Peacocke ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT
Had to laugh :o) You started out by saying Yes, but and then went on listing a number of points that supported what I was saying. I think you were saying yes, but you're right. :o) Steve Peacocke On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Kyley Harris ky...@harrissoftware.comwrote: Yep, but most people who buy the ipad wont be getting it for business use. they are filling a void in the home media arena of people that like computers but dont rely on them for income. Your comment about Cars and bikes is valid.. but then I'd say.. why do people get a 4x4 for their boat, and a little toyota corrolla for town.. its because they realise trying to get one for all purposes is silly, but getting two vehicles each for the right purpose is a good idea. Trying to look at an iPad as a replacement is the wrong way to go. its simply a good simple alternative for use in a specific way. when I am at home (after the 12 hour day at the desktop computer) I still use a computer, but mostly for youtube, web browsing, photos and movies. a tablet is perfect for that while I sit in bed or the couch.. a laptop is not perfect at all. Each to their own I think thats the beauty of personal preference. Jolyon commented on being called negative.. its not negative to have a view.. its only negative to put down the opposite view by referring to it in a less than desirable manner. Some people want a 60 plasma TV for $5000, some people will take the 32 tv plus an iPad and a laptop.. its all about choices. I expect the iPad will be a very good tool and I'll buy one.. until I actually have one I cant say much more about it :) On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Steve Peacocke st...@peacocke.netwrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Kyley Harris ky...@harrissoftware.comwrote: no product is ever the be all and end all. but I can guarantee that my children and grandparents will take an iphone or ipad over a desktop any day of the week.. they can learn it easily, just like the old palm pilots. Technology made simple is an excellent concept (if limiting to people who like to delve into advanced areas) I have had palm pilots, psion, apple, PC, iPhone, Blackberry, you name it. All have their uses however its always back to the workhorse computer for doing business. Yes, my iPhone has things like tasks, outliners, notes, email, browser, mindmapping, maps, even my bible is on there, but I still drop straight back into a PC (albeit the eeePC now) whenever I need to get some serious work or typing done. I can do quick email replies but get to the computer for anything thoughtful. For example, I read this post on the iPhone, but went straight to the PC to type out the reply as it was more than a simple couple of lines. I doubt very much if it will be the iPad vs the PC as the discussion has been - it's more likely to be the iPhone or iPad PLUS the PC. Just because something is easy to use, doesn't make it automatically better. Why would you learn to drive a car when riding a bike, or even walking is much easier to do? Steve Peacocke ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary
No, yes, no, JavaScript ruby/rails But I'm really out of the deep programming these days sadly. More leadership/management and even marketing. Steve On 21/01/2010, at 6:26 AM, Judd, Struan (eCargo) struan.j...@chh.co.nz wrote: Sorry meant to reply, been really busy. Put me down for: Yes, Yes, No, None for work, but been trying to find reasons to learn/use Haskell. TTFN Struan Judd Senior Developer eCargo P +64 (9) 368-9368 F +64 (9) 368-9369 M +64 (21) 685-335 www.ecargo.co.nz -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi- boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of PDS - John Sent: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 17:53 To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer? - summary Hi folks I had a spare 10 minutes and summarised the 23 replies from everybody: 1.Still maintaining Delphi code? No0x Yes23x 2.Started a new Delphi project in the last year? No10x Yes13x 3.Started a new project in another language in the last year (what was the language)? No7x YesPHP, VB, C#, Cocoa, Xcode, WPF, WCF 4.What other languages are you using learning? PHP, C#, Ruby, Eiffel, Java, Fortran, Python, Perl, PCL Conclusion: Only 23 Delphi developers replied. I wonder how many people there are on the list at all? 1.All still working with Delphi 2.Approx 55% of us started a new Delphi project. 3.Approx 66% of us started a new project in another language, most in C# and PHP 4.Most of us are learning another language whereby C# and PHP are favourite. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe DISCLAIMER: This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy, disclose or use the contents in any way. Please also advise us by return e-mail that you have received the message and then please destroy. Carter Holt Harvey is not responsible for any changes made to this message and / or any attachments after sending by Carter Holt Harvey. We use virus scanning software but exclude all liability for viruses or anything similar in this email or any attachment. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Sadly, this has already been in 2 contracts that I have worked on in NZ. Yes, pretty much a standard over here in Aus, but for those 2 contracts in NZ, I had to list all personal projects that I was working on at the start of my contract, otherwise, it belonged to the company. In this day and age when the company has the utmost power over the employee (due to the financial situation and the oversupply of unemployed IT people), the company can call any shots it wants. There have been several instances, very real over here, where the employer can hire a new employee and legally keep them on trial for up to a year, then simply fire them without explanation and without any legal issues at all, rather than pay contract rates. In one instance, the employer was able to fire people within their 3 months and hire another employee from another agency, rather than pay the agency fees. A sad fact of the current financial situation. While that is starting to get a little better, there are signs that the full impact of the financial crisis has yet to happen, maybe mid next year - but I certainly hope that it's over and we've seen the last of it. As one agent put it here, if you could look out onto Sydney CBD streets and have all the people looking for work glow red, you'd need sunglasses to walk down the street. Steve Peacocke On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Richard Vowles rich...@developers-inc.co.nz wrote: 2009/9/16 Jolyon Smith jsm...@deltics.co.nz I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see NZ employment contracts change over time to be more in line with that approach - the Utopia we enjoy today may not last forever. But as long as it remains the case today then granted, the relevance of New Zealand Sales Tax to New Zealand employees of New Zealand companies with employment contracts that allow them to use their employer’s license without fear of undesirable consequences is relatively minor. That IMHO, would be sad. There are many home projects that have made it into the corporate space and out there as products because of work a person put in at home :-( I know Borland did this after one particular person (who happened to be a contractor) pushed his product at BorCon which made the situation difficult for everyone as so many of the developers had great ideas they wanted to explore outside of work. -- --- Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor Developers Inc Ltd web. http://www.developers-inc.co.nz ph. +64-9-3600231, mob. +64-275-467747, fax. +64-9-3600384 skype. rvowles, LinkedIn, Twitter ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Sadly, it is indeed legal (take a search o the internet on Aus employment law). The normal probationary period is as you state, 3 months, however it is quite legal to extend that probationary period for up to 12 months without cause or explanation. They can extend beyond the 12 months but at that time they will need a good reason. You are also correct that it is normal to have a 3 month period and then that's all, however there are several reports where that has not happened. Sadly, not every manager or CEO is a leader. In the current climate, and with the current laws stipulating that no reason need be given, there are instances of employers abusing this. No, it's not common, but it does indeed happen and the current oversupply of really good people on the market allows them to do this without loss. Steve Peacocke On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Jeremy North jeremy.no...@gmail.comwrote: There have been several instances, very real over here, where the employer can hire a new employee and legally keep them on trial for up to a year, then simply fire them without explanation and without any legal issues at all, rather than pay contract rates. In one instance, the employer was able to fire people within their 3 months and hire another employee from another agency, rather than pay the agency fees. That is not legal and not normal for contracts in Australia; and if someone signed a contract accepting a 12 month probationary period then they are a moron. It is normal for people to have a 3 month probationary period. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Hi Leigh, This is fairly common over here for programmers to have to sign away all applications programmed at home. Steve Peacocke On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Leigh Wanstead lei...@softtech.co.nzwrote: Hi Steve, I thought what you described is for the no knowledge required job i.e. waiter etc. It happens in Delphi? Have a nice day Regards Leigh *From:* delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:03 a.m. *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero There have been several instances, very real over here, where the employer can hire a new employee and legally keep them on trial for up to a year, then simply fire them without explanation and without any legal issues at all, rather than pay contract rates. In one instance, the employer was able to fire people within their 3 months and hire another employee from another agency, rather than pay the agency fees. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Get used to it. As I stated, it is fairly common now (not always, please don't take this as generalisation) that unless the application was already defined, it belongs to the company. Companies are looking more to the fact they employ you for your design and invention skills, therefore they figure they own those skills and anything that comes from it. Steve Peacocke On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Todd Martin todd.martin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Steve That is an absolute outrage. Anyone worth their salt would never sign such a contract. Todd. This is fairly common over here for programmers to have to sign away all applications programmed at home. Steve Peacocke On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Leigh Wanstead lei...@softtech.co.nz mailto:lei...@softtech.co.nz wrote: Hi Steve, I thought what you described is for the no knowledge required job i.e. waiter etc. It happens in Delphi? Have a nice day Regards Leigh *From:* delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:03 a.m. *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero There have been several instances, very real over here, where the employer can hire a new employee and legally keep them on trial for up to a year, then simply fire them without explanation and without any legal issues at all, rather than pay contract rates. In one instance, the employer was able to fire people within their 3 months and hire another employee from another agency, rather than pay the agency fees. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
I don't understand why Delphi designer can move to Microsoft to be chief of dot net. Can someone explain it? $$ ? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Are we talking about Anders Hejlsberg? We seem to be talking about everything from Delphi to the world situation :o) Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Definitely worth it. I worked for a company that had upgraded from D77 to D2007 and for the first time I really thought the upgrade was worth it. Admittedly I still retained a copy of the D7 help file as the D2007 one was pretty crap (am I allowed to say that or do I have to wash my mouth out with soap again?). Although I'm back on my own programming platform which is still D7 (never could afford the upgrade), I'm really missing some of the D2007 enhancements. Steve Peacocke (now in Sydney) On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Leigh Wanstead lei...@softtech.co.nzwrote: I agree what you said. I think upgrade policy should apply to Delphi 7 which I own a professional license :-) I paid out of my own pocket which is hard earned money. Frankly speaking, anyone found any version more advanced than Delphi 7 for programming? Have a nice day Regards Leigh www.smootharm.com -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Phil Scadden Sent: Wednesday, 16 September 2009 9:14 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero The upgrades which brought significantly reduced stability and useless help systems have sort of reduced my appetite for upgrades. I was pleased to note that they did provide I think 12 patches for 2006 but then it was suddenly - not interested in bug fix, buy the next version. I am not as fond of 2006 as was for D7 but I would like some assurance that the upgrade really is an upgrade not a pack of me-too buggy features. So what do people think of 2009? Really an upgrade? Would anyone really want to do C# in RAD Studio when you also have VS on your computer? Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero
Agreed. Borland went away from its core competency to enter into a market it was ill prepared for. It tried to recoup some of the costs and losses by upping the cost of the core developer's tool (Delphi) until it cost the value greater than the cost of a good second hand car. It's total focus away from the developer and it's huge cost of delphi meant that most NZ companies went away from Delphi to another tool that offered more, easier and cheaper upgrades. Boreland effectively killed the cash-cow through over-excessive milking. Thankfully they are looking good to recover slightly, although regaining the customer base they had previously is probably now out of their range. Steve Peacocke On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Kyley Harris ky...@harrissoftware.comwrote: Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could be used forever.. No.. they went broke spending tons of money buying 3rd party tools and trying to sell them for a fortune to recoup the buy cost.. at the same time they damn near abandoned the concept of putting out and supporting the Core Development tools and focused on buggy integration tools with all the extras they purchased.. They were doing great as a company for Programmers.. Tried to become a company for lifecycle development and stuffed up. Still.. with Delphi 2007 I've been quite happy. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nzwrote: I think in general the upgrade policy has been quite generous, as others say other companies are much worse. Take Microsoft - As a Vista user of 1 year I get no reduced price upgrade to Windows 7. Vista is V6.0, Windows 7 internally is ictually Windows 6.1 and could be argued is not even a new version at all - they are as similar as Windows 2000 (V5.0) and Windows XP (V5.1) were. D2007 versus 7 - have to say the D2007 use of IDE screen is a lot better for a single screen on a laptop. And like others I have the D7 help loaded - actually the D2007 help is not so bad, just slow at times. Really one reason Borland went broke is that they made an IDE that could be used forever.. John ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] What is the most useful delphi component you are using?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nzwrote: Where can I read more about TJVDBUltimGrid and TJVUltimGrid? Google only found questions about using it, nothing to do with what it does and where to get it. These are part of the Jedi library. Try: http://jvcl.delphi-jedi.org/ Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC
Oh dear Phil, you sound as young as I do. How about the Commodore Pet in 1979? then a soldered together computer from a kitset and resembled a ZX80 and had a whole 1kb of memory to play with. A couple fo years later I remember a discussion with someone telling them for a serious business computer you needed at least 16kb of memory and even a disc drive. I still have an early Osborne 1 computer - anyone with the old 8 inch floppy Panasonic lying around in a back bedroom? Steve Peacocke On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Phil Scadden p.scad...@gns.cri.nz wrote: ok, here we go then... who had a a ZX81 then eh?? better stil who had a ZX81 with a 16kb expansion pack ?? (apart from me) Nah, my tape-drive only TRS-80 was way cooler. :-) -- Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist GNS Science Ltd 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose the contents. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Weather Stations
No, but I've GOTTA HAVE ONE is probably the wrong answer for that :o) Steve Peacocke Melbourne On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jeremy Coulter jscoul...@gmail.com wrote: Have you never heard of gadgetitous ??? :-) ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Windows System Colour
..and how many dimensions does your program have Rohit? Steve Peacocke Group Development Manager PrintSoft (Melbourne) +61 428 638 746 On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Rohit Gupta ro...@cfl.co.nz wrote: I am a little puzzled. I know that the system colours such as clBtnFace are special constants. In one part of the app, when I replace a pixel in a bitmap to clBtnFace it goes gray like it should. In another part of the app it goes money-greeny. Both do it consustently. Any clues ? Do I need to convert these special colours to real colours ? I couldn't find any function to do it. -- Regards *Rohit Gupta* B.E. Elec., M.E., Mem IEEE, Member IET Technical Manager Computer Fanatics Ltd *Tel *4892280 *Fax *4892290 *Web *www.cfl.co.nz -- This email and any attachments contain information, which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege and copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this email or attachments. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then delete this email and any attachments. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Sad News
Today, the company I worked for went from 15 employees down to just 3 employees. needless to say, I did not survive the round of redundancies and am now looking for a new job. Carol and I are off for a walk to consider our future. At least we have not purchased a new home and are able to consider all possibilities. Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] OO Programming
Just an interesting observation - why do people think that RAD programming excludes OOP programming? RAD is a methodology, OOP is a programming style. Steve http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] OO Programming
Yea, thanks Conor, Sure, in RAD, as it is in any Delphi project, you can certainly get away with simply programming the event handlers in the components (depending on the application). That should not preclude being able to create, for example, an Application Object that handles all your globals like the logged in user, or the company name and other details needed at times (e.g.; lbCompany.Caption := oApp.CompanyName) - where perhaps the company name is extracted from the database etc. In this example, oApp knows how to extract the company name, and perhaps even format it for display. RAD does not mean ShiteProgramming, or NoThoughtProgramming. Its hard to find a definitive definition (?) for RAD and a quick search shows various descriptions from the tool itself (Delphi or VB) to the whole spectrum of Agile methodologies. However, I do disagree with the assertion that RAD does not lend itself to larger apps (or did you mean Rapid Prototyping). In fact RAD is an excellent development environment for developing even enterprise level applications. Some years ago I had the pleasure of working in a team of between 3-5 developers where we used a RAD approach (using Delphi) in an iterative and incremental development methodology to produce a very large scale corporate application and can confirm the approach as excellent and the development far outperforms a team up to 10 times larger using Java/J2EE in a refined waterfall approach for a similar sized project. Steve On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Conor Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Probably because I don't put the acronym RAD and the word programming together as you have done. From my POV, RAD is generally taken to mean what the acronym stands for, Rapid Application Development; i.e. drop some components on to a form, wire up a few event handlers, voila. Doesn't mean I don't do OOP in event handlers and the little amount of code that is required in such an app, but IMHO you're comparing apples with oranges. RAD does not lend itself to larger apps which are intended to be easily maintainable and intended to be worked on by a team of developers. Cheers, C. -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 July 2008 8:13 a.m. *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] OO Programming Just an interesting observation - why do people think that RAD programming excludes OOP programming? RAD is a methodology, OOP is a programming style. Steve http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] OO Programming
Its never that other 5%. My favourite saying is explaining that the main problem with most programming is that last little wee 95%. :o) Steve http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve So what we need is OO RAD? Where you define classes and they 'instantly' appear on your palette (and are dynamically updated) And a O-R framework is part of the language? The problem has been of course that the Table Row = Business Object is a 95% accurate solution and so the Delphi IDE has basically delivered in 95% of situations That other 5% is a bastard though Just a thought Neven Yea, thanks Conor, Sure, in RAD, as it is in any Delphi project, you can certainly get away with simply programming the event handlers in the components (depending on the application). That should not preclude being able to create, for example, an Application Object that handles all your globals like the logged in user, or the company name and other details needed at times (e.g.; lbCompany.Caption := oApp.CompanyName) - where perhaps the company name is extracted from the database etc. In this example, oApp knows how to extract the company name, and perhaps even format it for display. RAD does not mean ShiteProgramming, or NoThoughtProgramming. Its hard to find a definitive definition (?) for RAD and a quick search shows various descriptions from the tool itself (Delphi or VB) to the whole spectrum of Agile methodologies. However, I do disagree with the assertion that RAD does not lend itself to larger apps (or did you mean Rapid Prototyping). In fact RAD is an excellent development environment for developing even enterprise level applications. Some years ago I had the pleasure of working in a team of between 3-5 developers where we used a RAD approach (using Delphi) in an iterative and incremental development methodology to produce a very large scale corporate application and can confirm the approach as excellent and the development far outperforms a team up to 10 times larger using Java/J2EE in a refined waterfall approach for a similar sized project. Steve On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Conor Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably because I don't put the acronym RAD and the word programming together as you have done. From my POV, RAD is generally taken to mean what the acronym stands for, Rapid Application Development; i.e. drop some components on to a form, wire up a few event handlers, voila. Doesn't mean I don't do OOP in event handlers and the little amount of code that is required in such an app, but IMHO you're comparing apples with oranges. RAD does not lend itself to larger apps which are intended to be easily maintainable and intended to be worked on by a team of developers. Cheers, C. *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 July 2008 8:13 a.m. *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] OO Programming Just an interesting observation - why do people think that RAD programming excludes OOP programming? RAD is a methodology, OOP is a programming style. Steve http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] OO Programming
PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 July 2008 8:13 a.m. *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] OO Programming Just an interesting observation - why do people think that RAD programming excludes OOP programming? RAD is a methodology, OOP is a programming style. Steve http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] OO Programming
Good, well thought out OOP code in meaningful objects - at least *I* think they are good and well though out :o) Steve On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Alister Christie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do people on this list put in the effort to write proper object oriented code, or write mostly RAD style code, using datasets with data-aware controls and stuff - operating on a customer dataset, rather than the somewhat more abstract instances of TCustomer for example? (does this question make sense?) -- 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://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?
I have heard a lot of complaints regarding later versions of Delphi. Let me assure you that EVERY language has problems. I still use Delphi 7 at home and in my last job I used Delphi 2007 and was very happy with it. Even Delphi 7 has some minor problems that we forget are there due to the fact that we all know them and work around them. I've been looking at several different languages and recently spoke of languages in my blog at http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ I have stated several times in my various blog posts that I have been involved in many varied software development projects using many languages and development environments. I can tell you from experience that 3 to 4 good Delphi developers can totally outperform 30 to 40 Java developers on a similar sized project by a factor of several months. However, I also note that the demise of Delphi over a period where, (in http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2007/07/delphipascal-through-ages.html), I noted that ...companies left Borland, and as Borland lost interest in Delphi. I'd also be interested to know of new developments being made using Delphi. I know of a development shop on the North Shore using Delphi. Any others? Here, at the place I work as Development Manager, we all wear the official Oracle Robes and suggesting Delphi as a language would cause mass hypertension and fainting. We are currently looking at a new development environment here (was Oracle Forms) and are seriously looking at either: Oracle's JDeveloper; Ruby on Rails (not Oracle, but operating against an Oracle database where most of the application coding is done); or a .NET language like C#. We're very impressed so far with Ruby on Rails for sheer productivity, but the jury is still out. Steve Peacocke Software Development Manager InSoft. 0274 100-122 ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Calculations affected by login
My only suggestion is to look to see if the network user login has a database field, table, or other restriction that causes different figures to be returned somewhere in the SQL query. Steve -- Steve Peacocke Software Development Manager InSoft (NZ) Ltd. P.O. Box 21051, Hamilton, New Zealand Phone: 07 839-3233 Mobile: 0274 100-122 On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:26 PM, John Davys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an odd one but I have had the problem demonstrated to me today as I found it hard to believe. I'm using BDS 2006, Delphi personality plus the TMS component set. The application uses a mathematical model to simulate heat transfer and does millions of calculations solving differential equations numerically to generate temperatures over time etc. The results are displayed in a TMS grid and a TeeChart component draws a graph of them. The strange thing is that the calculations graph come out fine if the user is logged into the pc as a local user but not if the user is logged into the pc as a domain user. The numbers calculated are garbage in the second case. So that's the same app, on the same hardware, only difference being the logged in user. No exceptions are generated, it runs without apparent error. When logged into the network, the user is part of a large company network (Microsoft Active Directory) that has a strict lockdown policy where most users are severely restricted in what they can do or see. When logged in as a local user he is in the Administrators group whereas logged in as a domain user he won't be. This is running under XP, SP2. It is recent hardware, an HP laptop. I can't duplicate the problem on any of my development or test machines. I'm on a different network but it's still MS active directory and I'm logged in as a network user. A further point of interest is that a tester, in a different organisation, reports the same issue i.e. it doesn't produce the correct answers as a network user but does on a standalone pc. In this case the standalone pc is a physically different machine. I'm struggling to come up with any kind of mechanism that could account for this behaviour. Any ideas? Cheers John John Davys Senior Consultant - Database Systems Rezare Systems Limited Hamilton, New Zealand ph: (07) 857 0824 mobile: (027) 557 0824 http://www.rezare.co.nz ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Test :-)
:-) Got it - 10:40am, 23rd April. Steve On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I just got this message now Nearly 20 hrs late :-) Alan Rose wrote: Im not saying this list is slow but I just got your post Jeremy ;-) [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: WAY off topic Jeremy Coulter Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:04:55 -0800 Hi all. I am just doing some ASP code, and wondered if there is a way to keep a connection to an OCX dll active for a session? I.e. can you pass the variable to the COM Object to the session object to keep it alive ? and re use it ? Cheers, */ Jeremy Coulter /* *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Coulter *Sent:* Tuesday, 22 April 2008 1:01 p.m. *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Test :-) seems to be -Original Message- From: Paul A Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:49:50 +1200 Subject: Re: [DUG] Test :-) Is itworking still? On 15/04/2008, *Paul A Norman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also having problems with this list. Paul On 14/04/2008, *Jeremy North* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks all. I'm back (not sure that is a good thing ... ) On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pong Jeremy North wrote: Testing gmail account usage. If someone sees this message can they please reply to it! On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just testing. Mailing list seems to have stopped working for me, but maybe now I have re-joined it will work. maybe. :-) ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 22/04/2008 3:51 p.m. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post:
Re: [DUG] POST from a Delphi win32 app
Take a look at http://www.delphipages.com/threads/thread.cfm?ID=168650G=168528SAR=TRUE -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 04/10/2007, Steven Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need pointing in the right direction please. I have a Delphi 2006 win32 application and I want to make it open a web page in a browser. I have done similar things before using shellexecute to open a web browser or the TWebBrowser component but this time I want the page to receive some information in some hidden fields. Like I pressed a button on a form that caused a POST action. What should I be looking for to make this happen? Thanks Steven Knight ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.ecan.govt.nz ** ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 Welcome Page
Gidday Rohit. I no longer have D2007 on front of me typing this on my phone but I do remember its just a matter of clicking on the home button at the top of the home screen section. Steve On 01/10/2007, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Welcome Page is blank, how do I restore it. It was useful only because I could keep shortcuts for more that 4 projects handy. -- *Rohit Gupta* * B.E. Elec. M.E. Mem IEEEAssociate IEE* *Technical Manager* *Computer Fanatics Limited* ** *Tel* +64 9 4892280 *Fax*+64 9 4892290 *Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]** *Web*www.cfl.co.nz http://www.cfl.co.nz/ This email and any attachments contain information, which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege and copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this email or attachments. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then delete this email and any attachments. -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 Welcome Page
Bummer. Sorry Rohit I know there's a way but don't have access to D2007. Anyone else, please? I'm sure there's a simple answer as this used to happen to me a few times and it was always something I did. Steve On 01/10/2007, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the page all right - it just happens to be totally blank. It hasnt just lost the favourites taht I added, its lost the rest of the page too. Steve Peacocke wrote: Gidday Rohit. I no longer have D2007 on front of me typing this on my phone but I do remember its just a matter of clicking on the home button at the top of the home screen section. Steve On 01/10/2007, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Welcome Page is blank, how do I restore it. It was useful only because I could keep shortcuts for more that 4 projects handy. -- *Rohit Gupta* * B.E. Elec. M.E. Mem IEEEAssociate IEE* *Technical Manager* *Computer Fanatics Limited* ** *Tel* +64 9 4892280 *Fax*+64 9 4892290 *Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]** *Web*www.cfl.co.nz http://www.cfl.co.nz/ http://www.cfl.co.nz/ This email and any attachments contain information, which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege and copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this email or attachments. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then delete this email and any attachments. -- *Rohit Gupta* * B.E. Elec. M.E. Mem IEEEAssociate IEE* *Technical Manager* *Computer Fanatics Limited* ** *Tel* +64 9 4892280 *Fax*+64 9 4892290 *Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Web*www.cfl.co.nz -- This email and any attachments contain information, which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege and copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, distribute or copy this email or attachments. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and then delete this email and any attachments. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Good component packs
Hello Nick, I know others out there will disagree with me but I have used Woll2Woll's InfoPower pack (http://www.woll2woll.com/InfoPower.html) as the ONLY component set in some very large projects operating for some years with excellent success. I tend to have only 1 component pack available otherwise (like the Jedi one) your application becomes over-bloated with nifty 3rd party components you don't really need. I had the full TMS component pack but only really needed and used the Unicode part of the pack. Woll2Woll's site shows some over-colourfull graphics but the mind-bending and scary colours and graphics are not really needed - what's needed is functionality for the user and InfoPower did it. I'm very, very interested in the ExpressQuantumGrid from DevExpress but am holding out as Delphi's grid, or InfoPower is all that I really, truly need. But it just looks so damn exciting .. but then money staying put in my wallet is also a nice thought. But... If I was restricted to just a single component pack, because of the types of programs I write (database driven), I would choose InfoPower because of its proven (to me) reliability in my applications ..but I'll check out ExpressQuantumGrid Suite again before I went ahead with that decision. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 01/10/2007, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon all o/ Other then TmsSoftware and Jedi - whats some other decent packs worth looking at, mainly visual component packs but anything else out there to make life easier and not re-invent the wheel. Cheers ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 Welcome Page
On 01/10/2007, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, now that I am on flakey XP, things are just as interesting. Desktop icons re-arrange themselves several times a day. Folders keep losing their settings. Explorer crashes 3 to 4 times a day. For some hours of the day, IE does not work. :-) Man Rohit, what are you doing to your poor PC's there :o) Most of the rest of us program NORMAL things. Get Egor to try turning off the lightening-powered life generator in the basement. -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Source Control - Sharing files between projects
We are currently using Subversion but are moving now to Surround SCM (http://www.seapine.com/surroundscm.html). Our uses are more for binary files than source files so this was a bigger driver in the search. One note, I looked seriously at VSS as I've used it before but with all the reports of the unstable database, I'm glad I didn't go there. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Delphi's Object Inspector. Finding a property in D2007
I came directly from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007. The most frustrating thing that I find is trying to locate a particular property in the Object Inspector. Delphi has gone away from listing VCL properties in alphabetical order and listed them instead in group order where it takes me forever to find the property I am after. E.g. trying to find the Name property was verty frustrating until I learned to scroll to the bottom of the property list and then scroll upwards to the next-to-last property group (Visua), and it will be in there somewhere. Is there a way to tell Delphi 2007 to list properties in alphabetical order where I can find them quickly again? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Delphi's Object Inspector. Finding a property in D2007
Thanks Miles, I have looked on that menu before, but didn't click to the Arrange sub-menu. That's much better. Thanks Steve On 05/09/07, Myles Penlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Right click on the OI and select alphabetical order rather than grouped. M. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Delphi 2006 and 2007 - Accredo etc
On 05/09/07, David Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't a situation Codegear should be happy with. I don't know the full extent of the problem as I don't use Delphi 2005-2007 but if it is bad as people say then it is disgraceful. Taking a look at TStrings... - Description This is class Classes.TStrings. - and if we look at Properties if TStrings we get... - Protected Properties UpdateCount This is UpdateCount, a member of class TStrings. Public Properties Capacity This is Capacity, a member of class TStrings. CommaText This is CommaText, a member of class TStrings. Count This is Count, a member of class TStrings. DelimitedText This is DelimitedText, a member of class TStrings. Delimiter This is Delimiter, a member of class TStrings. LineBreak This is LineBreak, a member of class TStrings. Names This is Names, a member of class TStrings. NameValueSeparator This is NameValueSeparator, a member of class TStrings. Objects This is Objects, a member of class TStrings. QuoteChar This is QuoteChar, a member of class TStrings. StrictDelimiter This is StrictDelimiter, a member of class TStrings. Strings This is Strings, a member of class TStrings. StringsAdapter This is StringsAdapter, a member of class TStrings. Text This is Text, a member of class TStrings. ValueFromIndex This is ValueFromIndex, a member of class TStrings. Values This is Values, a member of class TStrings. - The list of Methods is just a little better, but not by much. OK, they are working on it, which seems more than Borland was doing. We wait in the wings to hear more. Amongst the people who are on this list, there are some very experienced programmers. However experienced you are, there are always times when you want to check out how a particular method is called, or what a particular property actually does etc. Agreed, you could always write a little test program that changes a property, but it may not be visible or have an immediately recognisable name. Pressing F1 should tell you immediately. We still have the web, and D7 help files so we can give them time to update the help. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] TPageControl tab re-ordering. was: TPageControl Interesting Obser vation D2007
Steve - PageIndex, that was it (now I'm back at my computer). Something like... procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin PageControl1.ActivePage.PageIndex := PageControl1.ActivePage.PageIndex -1; end; procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject); begin PageControl1.ActivePage.PageIndex := PageControl1.ActivePage.PageIndex +1; end; Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 28/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gidday Steve, The TMS Component can do drag and drop of tab orders. However, you can always change the order of a tab by changing the property of the TabSheet that tells what order it is in (yea, well, sorry, I don't have Delphi open at this time and can't remember the property name, but you'll get the idea). You can then program your button to change that number on the currently selected tab every time it is clicked. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 28/08/07, Stephen Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to hijaak the original thread. What I meant was they want to have a couple of buttons to move the current tab to a different position within the list of tabs. Preferably a component with these buttons built in and sitting to the right of the tabs, or even be able to drag and drop a tab to a diff position, just like dbgrid columns can. regards, Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 ignores my search path
Thanks Berend, that puts a different spin on things. the only reference I can find is a comment I saw somewhere that Delphi 2007 compiler doesn't handle variables in the search path. ?? not sure if this is the case with you. Good luck with it. Oh, BTW: What exactly is Delphi doing? Is it when you compile, it comes up with the message that unit1.pas cannot be found? Or is it some other time? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 29/08/07, Berend de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, I've used Delphi since 1.0. Yeah, all that stuff works. It's just that my search path is ignored. I've a few thousands units, so adding them by hand isn't an option. - -- Cheers, Berend de Boer ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] TPageControl Interesting Observation D2007
Searching the newsgroups and web came up with a blank on this one so I thought I'd throw it to you people to see if any of you are having this problem as well. I have a TPageControl with 8 separate tabs. Three of those tabs are made invisible on startup, to be made visible on certain conditions. I have noted that if I compile the application with the main (starting) tab selected, then the tab will be blank - i.e. nothing will appear on the tab. It's like everything isset to invisible, except that items on that tab are never invisible. When I click on another tab and click back to the main tab, then everything appears as it should. However, when I compile the application with another tab selected, then on starting, I simply change to the main tab (in code, e.g. : pcCfg.ActivePage := tsMain), then all is displayed as it should. Puzzling. Is this a bug? can anyone else duplicate that? The interesting thing about it is that it ocurs in 2 of the applications that I look after, and it has only just started occuring recently (may be after update #2). Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] TPageControl Interesting Observation D2007
See the TMS Components. But you should be able to cope with normal TPageControl. TPageControl has an ActivePage property where it lists the name of the tabsheet selected (rather than using TabIndex). Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 28/08/07, Stephen Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, While we're on the subject - I've just had a request to allow the user to modify the tab positions on a pagecontrol at runtime. Any easy way to do this or would I need to search for a replacement component? Project is d5 but soon to be d2007. thanks, Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] TPageControl Interesting Observation D2007
On 28/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, Gidday Rohit, A major failing is that it has no way of telling you which page it is going to switch to in the Change event. I had to add another event in that does support it. Within the OnChange event, TPageControl's PageIndex and its ActivePage will tell you which page it has just changed to. Using the OnChanging event will tell you which page it is currently on before you leave. While you are correct in that the OnChange event won't tell you which tab you are going to change to, sing both together should solve most requirements. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] TPageControl Interesting Observation D2007
On 28/08/07, Jeremy North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to the first problem, I believe there is a QC item for that, but I can't find the report at the moment. Crikey (oops, that term will no doubt be copyrighted by now), I certainly hope so. I'll have a quick squiz a little later to see if I can find it. Another annoying habit it has is that with D2007 in design time, when first loading the project, selecting anything on the tab will immediately change the tab to show components from another tab. i.e. attempting to select a component on the already displayed TabA, will suddenly redraw TabA to look like TabB or TabC, with one of those components selected. The only way to get around this it seems, is to select another Tab and then reselect the original tab, allowing you to finally select a component on the displayed tab. Yep, I think I'll be moving my PageControl to the TMS one. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] TPageControl Interesting Observation D2007
On 28/08/07, Todd Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use a TTabControl and instantiate each page as a frame embedded in a panel, when the user changes tab? Todd. You mean, make it act just like a TPageControl? (grin) -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] TPageControl Interesting Observation D2007
Rohit, The TMS PageControl has an OnCanChange event that passes FromPage and ToPage :) Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 28/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, Gidday Rohit, A major failing is that it has no way of telling you which page it is going to switch to in the Change event. I had to add another event in that does support it. Within the OnChange event, TPageControl's PageIndex and its ActivePage will tell you which page it has just changed to. Using the OnChanging event will tell you which page it is currently on before you leave. While you are correct in that the OnChange event won't tell you which tab you are going to change to, sing both together should solve most requirements. Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] The xxx.bdsproj.local file frustration
Good morning all, Re: Delphi 2007 This morning I sent an Auckland collegue a zipped file of code for a project I am working on here. What was NOT included was any of... xxx.dsk xxx.cfg xxx.dof These were removed as they can sometimes (dsk especially) contain references to specific directories. However, my collegue said he had trouble compiling the project as Delphi wanted to look in a specific directory for some of the source code. #[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, looking at all the project files I foind, in the xxx.bdsproj.local file, directories even relating to a drive S:\and directory that has never, ever, been access on this computer. Some older projects once accessed these - however this project had been created from new on this computer that does not contain an S: drive. I took a look at every directory in any selection in both the Tools and the Project menu without finding any references. I even renamed the file to old_xxx.bdsproj.local and then loaded the project again. All good I thought, but then I took a look at the new xxx.bdsproj.local that Delphi had helpfully created. There were the offending S:\ directories and others. Can anyone enlighten me as to where Delphi is getting these from and why it insists on writing them to the project? And while you are at it, can anyone tell me how to distribute my project to an external collegue without it wanting to look in a directory that doesn't exist on his computer? Thanks Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] The xxx.bdsproj.local file frustration
On 20/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... similar frustrations and annoyances... Thanks Rohit, I too would like CodeGear to clean up these project files. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 IDE
The Delphi Wiki gives a list on a page there somewhere that tells you EVERY keyboard shortcut for each Delphi version. Nice. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 16/08/07, John Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hit a wrong key and discovered a new function - CTRL+B gives a list of open buffers (Units). Neat quick way to swap units! Now how long has that one been hiding there!? Almost everytime I meet other programmers I pick up a cool trick like this - so many times I hear long time users say How did you do that? I have been doing this the hard way for years. Some other great ones I found are: CTRL+/ comment/uncomment a line CTRL+M CTRL+N insert new line with different indenting options CTRL+T delete rest of word CTRL+Y delete line (now theres one you don't want to hit by accident) CTRL+ALT+Up/Down Up and down a procedure/function One I am still looking for - is there a way other than double-clicking on a word to highlight it? John ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 IDE
http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Default_IDE_Shortcut_Keys -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 16/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Delphi Wiki gives a list on a page there somewhere that tells you EVERY keyboard shortcut for each Delphi version. Nice. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 16/08/07, John Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hit a wrong key and discovered a new function - CTRL+B gives a list of open buffers (Units). Neat quick way to swap units! Now how long has that one been hiding there!? Almost everytime I meet other programmers I pick up a cool trick like this - so many times I hear long time users say How did you do that? I have been doing this the hard way for years. Some other great ones I found are: CTRL+/ comment/uncomment a line CTRL+M CTRL+N insert new line with different indenting options CTRL+T delete rest of word CTRL+Y delete line (now theres one you don't want to hit by accident) CTRL+ALT+Up/Down Up and down a procedure/function One I am still looking for - is there a way other than double-clicking on a word to highlight it? John ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Well ... ??
Common someone - tell us what happened at the Highlender thing in Auckland yesterday? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Can't Load Package
Good afternoon All, Am I missing something here? I recently installed 6 seperate component packs under the single TMS Component Suite Pro. It comes in 8 different emails each containing a seperate part of this Component Suite Pro with each requireing a seperate manual installation process (Sigh!). I am currently only using the Unicoder part of TMS. However, every time I load my project I get the following error... Error reading Form Can't load package C:\Development\Components and Tools\TMS\IntraWeb\iw9msded2007.bpl. The specific module could not be found. Ignore the error and continue? NOTE: ignoring the error may cause components to be deleted or property values to be lost. ... and indeed I often find the Delphi has indeed removed one (only one but a different one each time) of the unicode components. All other unicode components remain intact. I can look in that directory and see the offending file exactly as stated. Under Tools/Options / Library - Win32, I have added the correct path to the Library Path and have even added it to the Browsing Path. However I still get the error and some component somewhere on my large multi-tabbed form, is lost. Now this project specifically doesn't use the Intraweb TMS components - in fact I do no web stuff at all on this computer. Have I failed to set something? have I run over the limit of the number of directories that early versions of Delphi were plagued with? have I insulted something somewhere bnecause I gave up and only installed 6 of the 8 manually and seperately installed component packs? The component packs have been registered and I have ource code installed. Any assistance here would be appreciated. -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Can't Load Package
Thanks miles. I ended up removing the IW package for the moment and that seemed to work. I'll figure out the what/why later. thanks for the pointer to the registry, I'll keep that note handy. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 17/08/07, Myles Penlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check you don't have a disabled package in your project. Also may pay to delete the PackageCache folder from the registry. I remember having a very nasty issue because I had 2 projects that had a unit of the same name - and it was included as a designtime package in one project. Took ages to figure it out as to why half my images would disappear/unlink. Myles. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Peacocke Sent: Friday, 17 August 2007 02:19 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Can't Load Package Good afternoon All, Am I missing something here? I recently installed 6 seperate component packs under the single TMS Component Suite Pro. It comes in 8 different emails each containing a seperate part of this Component Suite Pro with each requireing a seperate manual installation process (Sigh!). I am currently only using the Unicoder part of TMS. However, every time I load my project I get the following error... Error reading Form Can't load package C:\Development\Components and Tools\TMS\IntraWeb\iw9msded2007.bpl. The specific module could not be found. Ignore the error and continue? NOTE: ignoring the error may cause components to be deleted or property values to be lost. ... and indeed I often find the Delphi has indeed removed one (only one but a different one each time) of the unicode components. All other unicode components remain intact. I can look in that directory and see the offending file exactly as stated. Under Tools/Options / Library - Win32, I have added the correct path to the Library Path and have even added it to the Browsing Path. However I still get the error and some component somewhere on my large multi-tabbed form, is lost. Now this project specifically doesn't use the Intraweb TMS components - in fact I do no web stuff at all on this computer. Have I failed to set something? have I run over the limit of the number of directories that early versions of Delphi were plagued with? have I insulted something somewhere bnecause I gave up and only installed 6 of the 8 manually and seperately installed component packs? The component packs have been registered and I have ource code installed. Any assistance here would be appreciated. -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe Attention: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not use, disclose, copy or distribute it, other than to return it to us with your confirmation that it has been deleted from your system. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] One of the best Delphi job you'll find
On 16/08/07, Tracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is based in Mount Maunganui which means no traffic problems. Your kidding right?? LOL Nope. Perhaps if you need to come over the bridge, or come in from the top of Papamoa, then yes, it might take you a half an hour, but if you live at the Mount, then there's rarely a traffic issue at all. I live about 5 minutes from work and can be at the Harbour or main beach at 5:05pm or 5:10pm, perhaps on a slow-driver day or during Christmas it might take longer but still nothing. When I lived in Auckland it could take between 50 minutes and anything up to 2 hours to get to work in the mornings - usually about 1 hour 10. living here just 5 minutes from work is great. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Delphi Compiler
Correct - bummer eh? Windows made sure that their Win mobile can only be programmed with .NET, and so far only using their tools. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 07/08/07, Robert martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so. I believe the argument is that you should use Delphi .Net? Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Dave O'Brien wrote: I know this has been asked before, is there any talk of a Delphi compiler for Windows Mobile? Regards, Dave. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Delphi Compiler
Yes -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 07/08/07, Tim Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me answer with a question Would a Delphi Compiler that targets ARM (natively) be interesting to you? Regards Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On I know this has been asked before, is there any talk of a Delphi compiler for Windows Mobile? Regards, Dave. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Debugger Options in D2007
Not really sure if I get you Rohit. The various debugger options can be placed in the toolbar as always. What is it that you are trying to do? Which options? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 07/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get to the Debugger Options faster. In D7, I could place it on the toolbar. Now its a pain. I did dream that in one of the demos someone showed how to access them faster, but I have not stumble don it yet. :-) -- Rohit Gupta B.E. Elec. M.E. Mem IEEEAssociate IEE Technical Manager Computer Fanatics Limited Tel +64 9 4892280 Fax+64 9 4892290 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webwww.cfl.co.nz ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] for..loop
Break? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 07/08/07, Ross Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does the Delphi help say that a For loop variable has an undefined value after the loop finishes it's iterations? Surely the variable is always 1 greater than the maximum To value. That is what appears to happen in all situations I've tested. I often use this test after a For loop to tell if something was not found. What would cause a different result than this? Cheers, Ross. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Checking bank account numbers
Contact your local bank, they can supply you with an algorythm that you can use to check if a number is correct. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 06/08/07, Sean Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to determine if a bank account number is correct? I assume it has a checksum or hash in it somewhere. But I know not where. Regards Sean Cross IT Systems Development Manager Catalyst Risk Management PO Box 230 50 Dalton St Napier 4140 DDI: 06-8340362 mobile: 021 270 3466 Visit us at http://www.catalystrisk.co.nz/ Offices in Auckland, Napier, Wellington Christchurch Disclaimer: The information contained in this document is confidential to the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged. Any view or opinions expressed are those of the author and may not be those of Catalyst Risk Management. No guarantee or representation is made that this communication is free of errors, viruses or interference. If you have received this e-mail message in error please delete it and notify me. Thank you. ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy that character into this email (?) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on the internet). Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in a Label on a form. Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero result on this. Can you elaborate? Thanks Rohit, Steve On 02/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just Guessing Here 1. If you use the currency format etc, then windows should do the right thing for a pc with thai on 2. Else I suspect code pages (are they still around) plus a font that has the character in it. Steve Peacocke wrote: Good afternoon all. I'm having problems displaying the Thai Baht symbol (?) any ideas? This page... http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm Suggests that the sysmbol can be reproduced with the following... HTML Entity (decimal) #3647; HTML Entity (hex) #xe3f; How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0E3F UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB8 0xBF (e0b8bf) UTF-8 (binary) 1110:10111000:1011 UTF-16 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f) UTF-16 (decimal) 3,647 UTF-32 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f) UTF-32 (decimal) 3,647 C/C++/Java source code \u0E3F Python source code u\u0E3F So, converting that to Delphi, how's that done. I want a label to display the equivilent of.. Dollar = $12,345 Baht = ?12,345 Any ideas? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
I can also paste symbol (?) into the source code and using a font that supposed to render correctly, either Mocrosoft Sans Sarif or Tahoma, all that will display is 'symbol (?)'. Talk about frustrating. Any help here by anyone would be really, really helpful. Steve On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy that character into this email (?) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on the internet). Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in a Label on a form. Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero result on this. Can you elaborate? Thanks Rohit, Steve On 02/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just Guessing Here 1. If you use the currency format etc, then windows should do the right thing for a pc with thai on 2. Else I suspect code pages (are they still around) plus a font that has the character in it. Steve Peacocke wrote: Good afternoon all. I'm having problems displaying the Thai Baht symbol (?) any ideas? This page... http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm Suggests that the sysmbol can be reproduced with the following... HTML Entity (decimal) #3647; HTML Entity (hex) #xe3f; How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0E3F UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB8 0xBF (e0b8bf) UTF-8 (binary) 1110:10111000:1011 UTF-16 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f) UTF-16 (decimal) 3,647 UTF-32 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f) UTF-32 (decimal) 3,647 C/C++/Java source code \u0E3F Python source code u\u0E3F So, converting that to Delphi, how's that done. I want a label to display the equivilent of.. Dollar = $12,345 Baht = ?12,345 Any ideas? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
Just to clarify, My code states...
Label1.Caption := 'symbol (?)';
Memo1.lines.add('symbol (?)');
but in each case the question mark '?' is displayed instead fo the baht symbol.
I will, no doubt, have the same issue with Pound and others.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can also paste symbol (?) into the source code and using a font
that supposed to render correctly, either Mocrosoft Sans Sarif or
Tahoma, all that will display is 'symbol (?)'.
Talk about frustrating.
Any help here by anyone would be really, really helpful.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that
character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy
that character into this email (?) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on
the internet).
Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in
a Label on a form.
Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero
result on this. Can you elaborate?
Thanks Rohit,
Steve
On 02/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just Guessing Here
1. If you use the currency format etc, then windows should do the right
thing for a pc with thai on
2. Else I suspect code pages (are they still around) plus a font that
has the character in it.
Steve Peacocke wrote:
Good afternoon all.
I'm having problems displaying the Thai Baht symbol (?) any ideas?
This page...
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm
Suggests that the sysmbol can be reproduced with the following...
HTML Entity (decimal) #3647;
HTML Entity (hex) #xe3f;
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0E3F
UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB8 0xBF (e0b8bf)
UTF-8 (binary) 1110:10111000:1011
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f)
UTF-16 (decimal) 3,647
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f)
UTF-32 (decimal) 3,647
C/C++/Java source code \u0E3F
Python source code u\u0E3F
So, converting that to Delphi, how's that done. I want a label to
display the equivilent of..
Dollar = $12,345
Baht = ?12,345
Any ideas?
Steve
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Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
OK, I can display the following correctly...
memo1.Lines.Add('Yen = ' + chr(165));
memo1.Lines.Add('Pound = ' + chr(163));
memo1.Lines.Add('Euro = ' + chr(128));
and they display the correct currency symbols, but when I add
memo1.Lines.Add('Baht = ' + chr(3647));
I still comes up with a question mark.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to clarify, My code states...
Label1.Caption := 'symbol (?)';
Memo1.lines.add('symbol (?)');
but in each case the question mark '?' is displayed instead fo the baht
symbol.
I will, no doubt, have the same issue with Pound and others.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can also paste symbol (?) into the source code and using a font
that supposed to render correctly, either Mocrosoft Sans Sarif or
Tahoma, all that will display is 'symbol (?)'.
Talk about frustrating.
Any help here by anyone would be really, really helpful.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that
character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy
that character into this email (?) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on
the internet).
Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in
a Label on a form.
Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero
result on this. Can you elaborate?
Thanks Rohit,
Steve
On 02/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just Guessing Here
1. If you use the currency format etc, then windows should do the right
thing for a pc with thai on
2. Else I suspect code pages (are they still around) plus a font that
has the character in it.
Steve Peacocke wrote:
Good afternoon all.
I'm having problems displaying the Thai Baht symbol (?) any ideas?
This page...
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm
Suggests that the sysmbol can be reproduced with the following...
HTML Entity (decimal) #3647;
HTML Entity (hex) #xe3f;
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0E3F
UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB8 0xBF (e0b8bf)
UTF-8 (binary) 1110:10111000:1011
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f)
UTF-16 (decimal) 3,647
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f)
UTF-32 (decimal) 3,647
C/C++/Java source code \u0E3F
Python source code u\u0E3F
So, converting that to Delphi, how's that done. I want a label to
display the equivilent of..
Dollar = $12,345
Baht = ?12,345
Any ideas?
Steve
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Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
Damn, I was hoping someone wasn't going to tell that. I was just
checking into this 'Unicode' word when your email hit.
Thanks Tim.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Tim Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve, the VCL components don't support Unicode characters, this is on the
road map and is expected to be delivered next year. For now I would suggest
the excellent TMS component suite. (http://www.tmssoftware.com/)
Regards Tim.
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Subject: Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
Just to clarify, My code states...
Label1.Caption := 'symbol (?)';
Memo1.lines.add('symbol (?)');
but in each case the question mark '?' is displayed instead fo the baht
symbol.
I will, no doubt, have the same issue with Pound and others.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can also paste symbol (?) into the source code and using a font
that supposed to render correctly, either Mocrosoft Sans Sarif or
Tahoma, all that will display is 'symbol (?)'.
Talk about frustrating.
Any help here by anyone would be really, really helpful.
Steve
On 03/08/07, Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that
character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy
that character into this email (?) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on
the internet).
Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in
a Label on a form.
Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero
result on this. Can you elaborate?
Thanks Rohit,
Steve
On 02/08/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just Guessing Here
1. If you use the currency format etc, then windows should do the right
thing for a pc with thai on
2. Else I suspect code pages (are they still around) plus a font that
has the character in it.
Steve Peacocke wrote:
Good afternoon all.
I'm having problems displaying the Thai Baht symbol (?) any ideas?
This page...
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm
Suggests that the sysmbol can be reproduced with the following...
HTML Entity (decimal) #3647;
HTML Entity (hex) #xe3f;
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0E3F
UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB8 0xBF (e0b8bf)
UTF-8 (binary) 1110:10111000:1011
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f)
UTF-16 (decimal) 3,647
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f)
UTF-32 (decimal) 3,647
C/C++/Java source code \u0E3F
Python source code u\u0E3F
So, converting that to Delphi, how's that done. I want a label to
display the equivilent of..
Dollar = $12,345
Baht = ?12,345
Any ideas?
Steve
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Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - Try Unicode
Thanks Colin, I'm looking at the TMS Unicode component also. Steve On 03/08/07, Colin/Mina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, I think you are going to need to incorporate unicode. Learn about Unicode here: http://perl.net.au/wiki/Unicode You will find the Thai character set here : http://downloads.activestate.com/pub/apc/perl-current/ext/Encode/ucm/8859-11.ucm The Baht symbol in Unicode is U0E3F \ xDF | 0 # I'm sure I've incorporporated UTF in Delphi some years ago but can't quickly find a reference to it. Sorry for some reason I can't turn the above URLs into Hyperlinks. You'll need to cut and paste them into your browser. HTH. Colin ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Windows UI during Screensaver
There is an article about that at... http://www.latiumsoftware.com/en/pascal/0027.php#6 Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 03/08/07, John Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the best way to detect the screensaver is on? The best way I know so far is P:array[0..256] of Char; Title:string; ScreenSaverOn:Boolean: .. GetWindowText(GetActiveWindow,p,256); title:=p; if title='' then ScreenSaverOn:=true; Which is sort of indirect - the screensaver is the only window with a blank title text. It is possible to detect if the mouse and keyboard are idle, but that does not mean the screensaver has come on of course. Is there anything more direct to detect the screensaver? John ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
Hello Brian, The uppercase beta that you are seeing is in fact the character used for the Baht symbol. See http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm I understand what you are saying, but this will be installed onto a full hardware sealed-box device (I am unable to elaborate on that) so we have total control over what the user sees whether here in new Zealand or in Mongolia or anywhere on the planet. Thankfully we are able to make that definate. I have ordered the TMS Unicode package (actually the full suite, should be interesting), so hopefully this will be here shortly and I can use it. preliminary trials with the downloadable trial components have, so far, proven successful. Thanks again. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 03/08/07, Brian Wrigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, - Original Message - From: Steve Peacocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List delphi@delphi.org.nz Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted Except that I can see it rendered on a web page, I can copy that character into MS Word and it shows as a character. I can also copy that character into this email (?) and it shows correctly (Gmail, on the internet). By the time that gets to me in Outlook Express, it shows as an uppercase beta (chr(223)). Possibly something along the way has converted it to the nearest approximation that can be shown on my computer. Pound, Euro, Yen and a few others are no problem - there are symbols for them among the high characters of most of the common fonts. No such luck with the Baht. Even if you encode the Baht character correctly (eg in Unicode) most people will still only see either a question mark or a square box unless they are using a suitable code page/font choice combination. In Thailand they probably do; elsewhere, you might be out of luck. Therefore, there should be a way that I can display that character in a Label on a form. You'd need a label component that uses Widestrings instead of strings, and the user would need their machine set up appropriately. Otherwise they'd see question marks or square boxes. You might be better to use a little icon or write the word Baht. Code Pages? A search of both D2007 and D7 help files produce a zero result on this. Can you elaborate? Joel Spolsky explains the whole mess quite entertainingly here http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Brian ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Thai Baht Symbol - or Hex value to String converted
Good afternoon all. I'm having problems displaying the Thai Baht symbol (?) any ideas? This page... http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0e3f/index.htm Suggests that the sysmbol can be reproduced with the following... HTML Entity (decimal) #3647; HTML Entity (hex) #xe3f; How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +0E3F UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xB8 0xBF (e0b8bf) UTF-8 (binary) 1110:10111000:1011 UTF-16 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f) UTF-16 (decimal) 3,647 UTF-32 (hex) 0x0E3F (0e3f) UTF-32 (decimal) 3,647 C/C++/Java source code \u0E3F Python source code u\u0E3F So, converting that to Delphi, how's that done. I want a label to display the equivilent of.. Dollar = $12,345 Baht = ?12,345 Any ideas? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] tMemo, Stop updating
Bloody stupid question I know, but I spent all day traversing 3 tons of spaghetti code and my mind is mush. Is there a way that I can tell a tMemo component not to keep updating when I process all the lines. I have a tMemo component with, lets say 5-10,000 lines. I want to process through each of those lines updating certain ones where necessary. for i := 0 to Memo1.lines.Count - 1 do If (Memo1.lines[i] = 'I can use this line') then DoThingsToTheLine; The problems is that I want to have the tMemo remain on the form, but I don't want it to keep updating to try to keep up with the current line that I'm processing. I've already tried Memo1.Enabled := false, but the frigging thing still keeps updating. I don't want to make it invisible as it looks really horrible. Any suggestions? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] tMemo, Stop updating
No, Thanks, but sorry that won't work. BeginUpdate will be for Data enabled components. This is a simple tmemo. Thanks anyway Steve On 01/08/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Memo1.lines.Beginupdate? or something like that Bloody stupid question I know, but I spent all day traversing 3 tons of spaghetti code and my mind is mush. Is there a way that I can tell a tMemo component not to keep updating when I process all the lines. I have a tMemo component with, lets say 5-10,000 lines. I want to process through each of those lines updating certain ones where necessary. for i := 0 to Memo1.lines.Count - 1 do If (Memo1.lines[i] = 'I can use this line') then DoThingsToTheLine; The problems is that I want to have the tMemo remain on the form, but I don't want it to keep updating to try to keep up with the current line that I'm processing. I've already tried Memo1.Enabled := false, but the frigging thing still keeps updating. I don't want to make it invisible as it looks really horrible. Any suggestions? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] tMemo, Stop updating
Ah - Lines DOES have BeginUpdate and EndUpdate methods, and they work. LockWindowUpdate(memo1.Handle); seemed to also work too, but did something funny near the end where it started to update when it was about 80% through. Thanks people. Steve On 01/08/07, Alister Christie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps: sl := TStringList.Create; sl.Assign(memo1.lines); //process sl memo1.lines.Assign(sl); 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: Bloody stupid question I know, but I spent all day traversing 3 tons of spaghetti code and my mind is mush. Is there a way that I can tell a tMemo component not to keep updating when I process all the lines. I have a tMemo component with, lets say 5-10,000 lines. I want to process through each of those lines updating certain ones where necessary. for i := 0 to Memo1.lines.Count - 1 do If (Memo1.lines[i] = 'I can use this line') then DoThingsToTheLine; The problems is that I want to have the tMemo remain on the form, but I don't want it to keep updating to try to keep up with the current line that I'm processing. I've already tried Memo1.Enabled := false, but the frigging thing still keeps updating. I don't want to make it invisible as it looks really horrible. Any suggestions? Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] tMemo, Stop updating
On 01/08/07, Jeremy Coulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, if you start looking at the Tmemo code, which uses TMemostrings, you will find the begin update actually calls SendMessage(Memo.Handle, WM_SETREDRAW, Ord(not Updating), 0); so it is perfectly fine to call Begin adn end update on memos. Jeremy Thanks Jeremy and others, Apologies, I was thinking of the objects TMemo and TCustomMemo. The property Lines (not TMemostrings that I can see) is a TStrings object which does indeed have the BeginUpdate and EndUpdate methods. I have used these and it works a treat. Thanks. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Show splash screen across two exe files
or,
A opens B, then sits and waits until...
FindWindow('MyForm', nil) 0
...then closes. FindWindow is in the Wondows unit and tells you
whether a window is open or not. That way A starts up withthe splash
screen and sits there until it knows that B has loaded and is
displaying it's 'MyForm', then A closes, leaving B to it.
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On 31/07/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way mine works is that a starts its splash screen (which has the
progress info on it) and launches b. b has the identical splash screen
and just takes over, the user does not notice that the screen has been
replaced. And a dies in the background. Havent had to use any process
locking means.
Leigh Wanstead wrote:
Hello everyone,
I got two exe files a.exe, b.exe. I want a.exe startup to show a splash
screen. And a.exe will launch b.exe and a.exe will quit. I want b.exe once
finish launching and close the splash screen.
How to do that?
TIA
Regards
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Re: [DUG] basic question
Its nothing to do with our economy. Its to do with the economy of the US wher the dollar is devaluing against all other currencies. What's this got to do with Delphi? ... er ... function NewZealandDollar(USDollar: Currency) : Currency; begin Randomize; Result := USDollar - (Random(50) + SizeOf(CullenMouth - HelenDarkLook)); end; Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 27/07/07, David Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. And here was me thinking it was due to the highest interest rates in the Western World... ;-) It must be worth 80c US at the moment due to the excellent state of the economy. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:37 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] basic question I thought I might add my 10c (1/2/5 what has happened to our currency?!) It has become so overvalued and full of itself that it will not acknowledge such derisory amounts. cheers, peter ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] 2007 - Where is Tee Chart
Hidden under TeeChart Std in the tool palette Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ On 24/07/07, Rohit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, where has TeeChart gone ? ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Help - E2171 Variable inaccessible here due to optimization
I'm attempting to debug a piece of code in my application and I get this statement when trying to Watch, Evaluate, or Inspect a particular variable. E2171 Variable blah inaccessible here due to optimization It is most important that I see the value of blah at this time. The code is in a loop that runs many thousands of times and I am stopping in a particular place in the program and setting the breakpoint in that loop so that I can see the value in the next loop - so presenting a ShowMessage() is not practical. I have set the project/options/compiler/optimization; to Off I have set the project/options/linker/Map File; to Detailed (in desperation) What else do I need to set to tell Delphi that I really, really, pretty please, need to see that value? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 help incomplete or install issue
On 19/07/07, Robert martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup all the time. I cant believe the help is as bad as it is. Surely all they needed to do was cut and paste the help from D7 into the new product (most of it is unchanged after all). I gather that the Help is getting some real priority at CodeGear, however I still keep the D7 help file as I find this the most helpful. Often there are Delphi code examples on how some things are used, as well as reasonably clear descriptions, instead of e.g. ... TStrings: This is class Classes.TStrings. and when I look at TStrings' properties, I'm presented with... Capacity: This is Capacity, a member of class TStrings. CommaText: This is CommaText, a member of class TStrings. Count: This is Count, a member of class TStrings. DelimitedText: This is DelimitedText, a member of class TStrings. etc... OK, that is really useful help. Not sure where I read it yesterday but I loved the quote CodeGear should rename 'Help' to 'Hinder' to prevent being sued for misleading advertising. However, I have heard all the reports of the priority and on-going work that D2007 Help is being given, and wait patiently (for a reasonable length of time) while they complete this massive task. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] D2007 - Where's the ActiveX components Gone?
Good Morning All, I'm upgrading an old D7 program that used the Formula One spreadsheet component from the old ActiveX tab in D7. I note, that the tab is gone in D2007. I also note the extensive amount of code that the previous programmer placed into this particular application to use this component. Thirdly, I also note the sinking gut feeling when searching google on this component and any mention of Delphi after about D5. I also note the Formula one website quotes many, many dollars for licencing this component. A sweep of the D2007 companion disk does not give me that component. Panic is rising to the surface here. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? What happened? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] D2007 - Where's the ActiveX components Gone?
Thanks. I'll check that out. Steve On 18/07/07, David Moorhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve You can re import the ocx (c:\winnt\system32\vcf132.ocx ??) file and reregister it. Use the Component | Import Component menu option and follow the wizard. HTH D On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:35:42 +1200, you wrote: Good Morning All, I'm upgrading an old D7 program that used the Formula One spreadsheet component from the old ActiveX tab in D7. I note, that the tab is gone in D2007. I also note the extensive amount of code that the previous programmer placed into this particular application to use this component. Thirdly, I also note the sinking gut feeling when searching google on this component and any mention of Delphi after about D5. I also note the Formula one website quotes many, many dollars for licencing this component. A sweep of the D2007 companion disk does not give me that component. Panic is rising to the surface here. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? What happened? Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
[DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement
I am finally giving up on all the problems that Windows Media Player are giving and am searching for a total replacement. As most VCLs are wrappers around the Windows Media Player, can anyone suggest an alternative that does not use this buggy player. I only need a ver simple player, no record, but have the ability to define starting point, play, pause, know when its finished, etc. and able to play mpg files. Suggestions please. Steve -- Steve Peacocke http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement
Looks good Neven, thanks. Do you know if there is a VCL component that can use this? Steve On 18/07/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VLC? Steve Peacocke wrote: I am finally giving up on all the problems that Windows Media Player are giving and am searching for a total replacement. As most VCLs are wrappers around the Windows Media Player, can anyone suggest an alternative that does not use this buggy player. I only need a ver simple player, no record, but have the ability to define starting point, play, pause, know when its finished, etc. and able to play mpg files. Suggestions please. Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement
Ah, that's why I can't open their developers wiki. I'm not keen on using TWebbrowser, or even an ActiveX component, but will continue to look at this as it seems all I want. In the meantime, if anyone else has a suggestion of another Delphi controlled mediaplayer then please let me know. Thanks My requirements also require showing the mpg full screen, but I need to track the frames as I'll need to do things at certain pre-determined frames/times. Steve On 18/07/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve VLC have a wiki which is not responding right now but a quick google (vlc delphi') suggested Much easier way to bring *VLC* to your *Delphi* Application is to paste a TWebbrowser Object in your Form, is generate Code for the HTML and m3u file and let *...* May seem a liitle fat but probably you'll stay sane as you will be driving VLC the same way as everyone else There are mentions of ActiveX as well but remember this is x-platform open source so windows is not the centre of that universe * HTH Neven * Looks good Neven, thanks. Do you know if there is a VCL component that can use this? Steve On 18/07/07, Neven MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VLC? Steve Peacocke wrote: I am finally giving up on all the problems that Windows Media Player are giving and am searching for a total replacement. As most VCLs are wrappers around the Windows Media Player, can anyone suggest an alternative that does not use this buggy player. I only need a ver simple player, no record, but have the ability to define starting point, play, pause, know when its finished, etc. and able to play mpg files. Suggestions please. Steve ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement
I'll still take a look at it - when that site is back up (I can't seem to be able to load it as yet). Thanks. Steve On 18/07/07, Sean Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignore my last email, I missed the VCL requirement. Still a good player though. Regards Sean Cross ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
Re: [DUG] Windows Media Player Replacement
Although they try very hard not to tell you, it seems to be a .NET only tool. I'm developing in Win32. Thanks, I'm still on the lookout. So far I'm still investigating VLC. How about Media Player Classic - anyone know of a programmer way to use this? perhaps a VCL Component wrapper? Steve On 18/07/07, Alister Christie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have lots of money to spend you could try http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/Multimedia/Multimedia-LE.htm Alister Christie ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
