Re: Dragging an item in Multi-select listview

2011-09-13 Thread Francois PIETTE
Where would I want to execute the BeginDrag? OnMouseMove and check for left mouse button down? OnMouseDown and check for left mouse button down? francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS)

Re: TWebBrowser

2011-05-28 Thread Francois PIETTE
I'm using a TWebBrowser to load in a web page. One item on the page remains hidden until you mouse over its place holder. It is likely that the page use JavaScript to make the item visible. It may also query the server for them item which may or may not be loaded with the may page. How do I

Re: Writing a simple C# DLL that Delphi (5) can call

2011-05-12 Thread Francois PIETTE
I need Delphi (5) to be able to use a function from a simple C# (Visual Studio 2010 written) DLL. I will be owner of the C# Delphi code so the function name / parameters are controlled by me. From your C# DLL, expose the features you need as a COM object and use Delphi to invoke it. --

Re: One Instance Component that support passing of parmeters

2011-03-17 Thread Francois PIETTE
In Delphi 2010 I tried to install this same component and it errors out while compiling the code and I have no idea how it fix it, so looking for a replacement. Do you have the source code or are you trying to use an old dcu or pbl ? If you have the sourcecode, it is likely that porting the

Re: Does somebody know how to invoke a Web Service / use WDSLfromDelphi 5?

2011-03-12 Thread Francois PIETTE
Francois, I don't know your ICS suite, but I've had problems with these things using other http components. For example the MS stuff that comes with .NET doesn't provide that level of transparency. If ICS does it right, it might be considered to hand-craft the SOAP calls. Does your suite also

Re: Does somebody know how to invoke a Web Service / use WDSL fromDelphi 5?

2011-03-11 Thread Francois PIETTE
Francois is right, but it can be quite tedious to this, depending on the complexity of the webservice. And, like with many other things, the devil is in the detail. So for a simple service, you could just implement it yourself, but for a more complex service, for example one using SOAP

Re: Does somebody know how to invoke a Web Service / use WDSLfromDelphi5?

2011-03-11 Thread Francois PIETTE
BTW, if you happen to have a D6 around, you might just want to use that one for the whole app. I remember switching from D5 to D6 a long time ago and having virtually no difficulty getting the D5 app to compile and run in D6. I totally agree and would add that the ease of porting is up to

Re: Does somebody know how to invoke a Web Service / use WDSLfromDelphi5?

2011-03-10 Thread Francois PIETTE
as is. I will download and install Delphi 2007 first so that I can at least move my app that much closer to be able to use the web service. That said, where do I go to download an older version of Delphi? Thanks again, Mike - Original Message - From: Francois PIETTE francois.pie

Re: Does somebody know how to invoke a Web Service / use WDSLfromDelphi5?

2011-03-10 Thread Francois PIETTE
That said, where do I go to download an older version of Delphi? Buy Delphi XE from Embarcadero and you'll get Delphi 2007 as well. Here what you can read at Embarcadero website: Delphi XE includes free access to earlier version licenses and downloads for Delphi 2010, 2009, 2007 and 7.

Re: Does somebody know how to invoke a Web Service / use WDSL from Delphi5?

2011-03-09 Thread Francois PIETTE
I know Delphi 6 and above handle this, but I have an app in Delphi 5.1 that has not been converted to D2010 yet and my user wants to be able to communicate with a Cisco Web Dialer now. Any ideas appreciated on how I might accomplish this using D5 would be greatly appreciated. You have to

Re: How to generate PDFs with tables...

2011-02-26 Thread Francois PIETTE
I figured out how to generate an HTML document from the rich edit cells, and put a font .. ... /font around it to make the highlighting work. It takes up a lot of space, probably more than the PDF will take, but I am also able to open it with Word, and then save it as a *.doc file. That

Re: How it iterate a windows directory?

2011-02-23 Thread Francois PIETTE
Anyone have sample code on lopping thru all files in a folder and grabbing the name, type, size and date modified? Any pointers appreciated. Use FindFirst/FindNext RTL functions. Somthing like this: var SR : TSearchRec; Status : Integer; begin Status := SysUtils.FindFirst('c:\*.txt',

Re: Delphi Mail Merge Component

2011-01-16 Thread Francois PIETTE
I now have TPerfectScript as a component on my palette, but no documentation on how to use it. The result of the import is a delphi source code where you can see all the methods with their arguments. If documentation exists, you should find it and Corel. Maybe it is included with WordPerfect

Re: Delphi Mail Merge Component

2011-01-14 Thread Francois PIETTE
We use Word Perfect for all merging. Is Word Perfect still existing and used ? -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be

Re: Delphi Mail Merge Component

2011-01-14 Thread Francois PIETTE
You said or (better), import the WP type library and make Vtable calls to it. Can you tell me where to go to find info on this? Using Delphi (All versions have similar behaviour with minor changes), follow these steps Menu component Import a component Import a type library In the list,

Re: USB Serial Port

2010-11-10 Thread Francois PIETTE
Thank you for the reply. I know how to find the info from the device manager. What I really want to know is how to code in Delphi how to enumerate the COM ports or how to search down the registry tree. That is not what you asked... So you should have asked that directly. You'd received a better

Re: Recognition ov application window

2010-10-09 Thread Francois PIETTE
I would like to find method how to recognize, the mouse is over my application window. If that window is partly covered by other application, I want to recognize that situation, in other words, that time, I want see some indicator, which tells me, between mouse cursor and my application window is

Re: Compiler Warnings

2010-09-07 Thread Francois PIETTE
I get [Warning] Unsafe typecast messages for these statements D:=integer(ListM.Objects[k]); ... ListM.Objects[k]:=TObject(D); The program works fine. The question is what are [Warnings] all about? You can safely ignore this warning (and disable it in the compiler warning tab in the project

Re: Classes in DLLs

2010-08-07 Thread Francois PIETTE
I've been trying to find out this online and am not having much luck finding the answer. Can I compile classes directly into the dll? Or do I need to use a package? A package is a DLL with another extension. A simple DLL has no provision to export classes as such. You can export simple

Re: Retrieving a rendered internet page

2010-04-27 Thread Francois PIETTE
I pull information from a commercial web site with my program. Unfortunately, the site changed its structure and no longer delivers its information in the html code. Instead, it sends Javascript code which creates the viewed page using document.write. So I can no longer get the data simply

Re: How to manage changes I make to 3rd party source code ina project? Thanks for the suggestions!

2009-07-02 Thread Francois Piette
Thanks, Francois, I agree about letting 3rd party component authors know about fixes. I do this. In this particular case, I could not even find where to do this. Delphi Gems moved the code to Google Code for VirtualTreeview and it was not even available, nor could I find any other links

Re: How to manage changes I make to 3rd party source code in a project?

2009-07-01 Thread Francois PIETTE
In general I really dislike changing 3rd party code because of this. Now, my question is how does one properly manage this? I added documentation in my code to indicate I did this, plus in the 3rd party pas, used a unique line identifier so that I can check for my own code changes, but that

Re: Internet Search

2009-06-29 Thread Francois Piette
Is it possible to send name to a search page for telephonenumber on the internet, and get the answer back in the program?? Ex. if you made a program to send Lerberg to www.gulesider.no, and then receive all the answer back in the program afterwards. Yes, you can do that using any HTTP client

Re: Non-unicode issue in D7

2009-06-29 Thread Francois Piette
My D7 app is not Unicode compliant at all. A Thai user is complaining of a strange problem where Thai characters appear correctly in a ListView, but not correctly in a label just above the listview. The label is a Copy of column 1 and 2 from the selected ListView item. The user has Thai as

Re: Generating audio waveforms (Francois PIETTE)

2009-06-17 Thread Francois PIETTE
I don't think the problem is in your code. Is there a balance control somewhere downstream from your code? Its behaving as a balance control would. Windows? This couldn't be a balance control since balance do not mix channels. Balance is just a way to change volume level ratio between left

Re: Generating audio waveforms

2009-06-14 Thread Francois PIETTE
Are you sure your sound card driver isn't just pre-processing the signal to simulate some conditions (concert hall, rock, etc)? Or do you think there might be some crosstalk interference between the wires? Have you tried changing the output settings in Windows between headphone, speakers, etc?

Re: Generating audio waveforms

2009-06-14 Thread Francois PIETTE
Hi David, I have some source code here: My code was OK: It works perfectly on another computer. I've updated the sound driver of my computer and now everything is OK. Thanks, -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware

Generating audio waveforms

2009-06-13 Thread Francois PIETTE
Hi ! I'm writing a small application which has to generate audio waveform using the sound card (PCM, 11025KHz, stereo, 8 bits). I'm using waveOutWrite and related API function. For now, I have a single buffer. As I understand, audio samples are one byte for left, one byte for right up to

Re: Generating audio waveforms

2009-06-13 Thread Francois PIETTE
I've found the problem. The sound driver was buggy. My code is OK. -- francois.pie...@overbyte.be The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: Francois PIETTE

Re: Which SSL? and WHERE from?

2009-05-27 Thread Francois Piette
Help! More than an hour of googling and searching and reading, and I still can't find a coherent version of SSL for Delphi 7 (with Indy). I found a precompiled version of SSL for Indy (wonderful!), but it requires Indy version 10.2.3 or higher. And that I cannot find and do not have! I

Re: Delphi 2009 and Strings

2009-05-04 Thread Francois Piette
Simply do a search and replace to change all occurrences of String type to AnsiString type. The compiler will automatically convert AnsiString to UnicodeString when it is necessary. This will work although you will not benefit from Unicode. I realize I'm missing something obvious here, but why

Re: [TWebBrowser] Calling a JavaScript function

2009-02-20 Thread Francois PIETTE
Cooper EnglishLogicKernel.com Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf Of Francois Piette Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:41 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Re: [TWebBrowser

Re: [TWebBrowser] Calling a JavaScript function

2009-02-19 Thread Francois Piette
Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf Of Francois Piette Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 7:25 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject

Re: [TWebBrowser] Calling a JavaScript function

2009-02-17 Thread Francois Piette
I have the following problem: Having a web page loaded into a TWebBrowser hosted in my Delphi application, I want to have Delphi code execute a JavaScript function embedded in the HTML page. How can I do that ? Answering my own question: procedure WB_ExecScript(WebBrowser: TWebBrowser;

Re: [TWebBrowser] Calling a JavaScript function

2009-02-08 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have the following problem: Having a web page loaded into a TWebBrowser hosted in my Delphi application, I want to have Delphi code execute a JavaScript function embedded in the HTML page. How can I do that ? I use the execScript function of TEmbeddedWB, found at

Re: [TWebBrowser] Calling a JavaScript function

2009-02-08 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have the following problem: Having a web page loaded into a TWebBrowser hosted in my Delphi application, I want to have Delphi code execute a JavaScript function embedded in the HTML page. How can I do that ? One angle - there are probably others - how about doing either directly a load of

Re: Delphi-3 Installation

2009-02-08 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have my original Delphi-3 Installation CD and I would like to install it on a portable USB drive so I can take it from computer to computer. The problem is the installation writes stuff to the system registry of the computer doing the installation. There are references to the drive letter

[TWebBrowser] Calling a JavaScript function

2009-02-07 Thread Francois Piette
Hi ! I have the following problem: Having a web page loaded into a TWebBrowser hosted in my Delphi application, I want to have Delphi code execute a JavaScript function embedded in the HTML page. How can I do that ? To help understand what I mean, I've done a sample program (see below) loading

Re: Moving from D7 to D2007: couple of IDE issues

2009-01-13 Thread Francois Piette
I'm finally at a point where I'm moving my projects over to D2007 (Vista) from D7 (XP) and getting introduced to the newer IDE. 2. On adding a component to a new form, the component's unit is not automatically added to the USES list. How do I get the unit to be added when I add the

Re: Var question

2008-11-30 Thread Francois PIETTE
Can you tell me to pass nothing to a function/proc that waits for an Var argument ? Let's take the System procedure Val(S;var V;var Code:Integer); Val(S, 0, 0); OR Val(S, Null, Null); doesnt' work of course var S: String; myV : Integer; myCode : Integer; begin Val(S,

Re: Abort memo copy in Delphi

2008-11-27 Thread Francois Piette
Does anyone know of a way to allow a user to view the contents of a memo, but not allow them to copy it? Just an idea: Instead of a memo, use un image. Render your content to an image at runtime and use an image component placed in a scrollbox to display. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS

Re: Delphi licence for other user on XP

2008-11-24 Thread Francois Piette
Sometime I have to work remote on my machine. I want to do this with another user with limited rights (a normal user rights) on XP. But when I create another user and login and start Delphi, then Delphi is complaining there is no licence. What is the best way to avoid this? Try to copy

Re: Delphi future

2008-08-20 Thread Francois PIETTE
Hello Stevio, I am interested to hear if people think Delphi has much of a future now as a software development tool? Sure there is a future for Delphi. Specially now that it has been bought by a new company which seem to have fund for development. Also how easy would it be to upgrade my

Re: dll on Linux

2008-08-10 Thread Francois PIETTE
How can a dll be converted to run on Linux? Recompile with Kylix and make it a .so file. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be

Re: Converting from C# to Delphi

2008-06-19 Thread Francois Piette
Does anyone know of any step by step guides to convert C# projects to Delphi? I have an SDK written in C# (not my own), but I'd prefer to do my project in Delphi. I assume that I can compile the C# project (with the SDK), and then using the IDL reverse engineer it in Delphi. At least it

Re: Win32 GUI Library?

2008-04-21 Thread Francois Piette
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Ross Levis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KOL http://kolmck.net. I've used this before and it produces very small executables, but still simple to develop programs. Thanks Ross. Yeah. I actually tried it before, too. It's very nice if you want really small exe

Re: IDE Pallette

2008-04-03 Thread Francois Piette
There's an old trick that I have forgotten than makes the component pallette in the IDE multi-line. Does anyone else remember it? Moved my development system and now I have one line with a zillion component packages on it. Which Delphi version are you using ? Contribute to the SSL Effort.

Re: Delphi 2007

2008-03-28 Thread Francois Piette
My reason for questioning this was simply because the warning about it being platform specific doesn't tell you anything useful! It tells you that you are using a unit specific to the platform you are using. That sound clear to me. I suspected that it was referring to Win32, but the way

Re: copy protection

2008-03-27 Thread Francois Piette
I have a few delphi (5 and 7) applications protected by USB dongle. Now customar will run these applications on virtual machines making USB impossible. AFAIK, USB is OK with virtual machines such as VMWare. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of

Re: Delphi 2007

2008-03-26 Thread Francois PIETTE
There is a way to turn the warning off, however if I'm using something from that unit that IS deprecated, shouldn't there be a replacement for it? That's another matter :-) What is the thing your are using ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The

Re: Delphi 2007

2008-03-25 Thread Francois Piette
I hadn't paid much attention to this before, but I'm putting the finishing touches on a Delphi Win32 application and am tired of seeing the warning about using FileCtrl. I don't see which warning you are talking about ! If it is about deprecated unit or symbol, you simply have to turn that

Re: D7 on Vista

2008-03-06 Thread Francois PIETTE
I just got my shiny new works computer. With shiny new Vista Business. Alas, when I try to install my grubby old Delphi 7 it complains that there known compatibility issues. Of course it neglects to tell me just exactly what those issues are, or indeed how I should overcome them. The

Re: TMNHTTP component

2008-02-07 Thread Francois Piette
In Delphi5 I use a TMNHTTP component to get data from a webserver (via a PHP page that talks to a database). This works fine. But now I want to upgrade to Delphi2006. Can anyone advise, what component should I use? And how do I use it? I just want to retrieve the text of the page. Use

Re: HTTP problems w. D2007

2008-01-02 Thread Francois Piette
Hello Chris, You should post your message about ICS in [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (you must first subscribe). As you can see, same list server, but different lists. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware)

Re: December Update

2007-12-25 Thread Francois PIETTE
Does this patch work with the VCL only version, or will I damage something if I install it? I don't know what VCL only is, but december update is for build 11.0.2804.x (if you have lower version number, first update to update #3, then december update. If you have a higher build, then you

Re: [OT] RAD Studio 2007 december update available

2007-12-20 Thread Francois Piette
Just to share this interesting information: RAD Studio 2007 (and by the way Delphi 2007) december update is available from CodeGear registered user website. Direct link: http://cc.codegear.com/item/25238 (This link is only available when logged as a registered user. General link is at

Re: Good Delphi books

2007-12-17 Thread Francois Piette
I'm getting back into programming and was wondering if there are some good tutorial/exercise books for Delphi and which ones the group would recommend. Something that gives you examples to try out. Delphi is able to cover such a braod range of application that if you tell us which kind of

Re: IIS v5 Integrated Windows Authentication

2007-12-16 Thread Francois Piette
that the client has successfully negotiated the NTLM authentication. How do I parse out the username from the above in the server? I have looked at some of your codes in ICS (httpproc.pas) but have not figured out how to parse out the username. Regards, KK Aw Francois Piette wrote: I

Re: IIS v5 Integrated Windows Authentication

2007-12-11 Thread Francois Piette
, 2007 6:25 AM Subject: Re: IIS v5 Integrated Windows Authentication Francois, I don't need the password, only the username. How do it extract that from the request using Delphi? KK Aw Francois PIETTE wrote: Unfortunately for you but fortunately for all users, Windows authentication

Re: IIS v5 Integrated Windows Authentication

2007-12-10 Thread Francois PIETTE
I need to extract the username and password(?) using the Integrated Windows Authentication included with IIS v5 for verification within my ISAPI application. Unfortunately the request.authentication string is encoded. Any ideas how I should handle this. I am using Delphi5. Unfortunately

Re: Follow-up about CodeCentral

2007-11-13 Thread Francois PIETTE
I twice now submitted my Delphi Applet to the Binaries section of Code Central, receiving a confirmation that the upload of its Zip file was successfully completed, but still I am unable to locate my upload anywhere on the system! The ONLY thing I can see as being due to a possible problem is

Re: As EXE grows Delphi (7) gets way slower; what to do?

2007-10-16 Thread Francois Piette
I've done the following. Anything else I can do? 1) Have a look at the memory swapping using task manager to see if 1GB is enough or not (should have no swapping at all) 2) Defragment you disk. 3) Have a look at your anti-virus, anti-spyware which could take a long time scann for your files. Try

Re: Scripting languages

2007-10-12 Thread Francois Piette
Hello Robert, my client has expressed a wish that I could provide such a scripting language with the app I'm now working on that could allow for script writing and running, Any suggestions? Which language has the widest range of abilities? I am using JavaScript within my Delphi

Re: News about Delphi 2007 + update 3 ?

2007-10-01 Thread Francois PIETTE
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francois Piette Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:31 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Re: News about Delphi 2007 + update 3 ? Is anybody who actually uses Delphi (not just playing around, I mean really using it for development work) who can tell me

Re: News about Delphi 2007 + update 3 ?

2007-09-28 Thread Francois Piette
Is anybody who actually uses Delphi (not just playing around, I mean really using it for development work) who can tell me if there still are major bugs in Delphi 2007? I'm using RAD Studio 2007 which include Delphi 2007.Win32 with great success. In the part of the product I use (we all use a

Message Broker

2007-09-20 Thread Francois PIETTE
I'm looking for a message broker, open source and written in Delphi (Other languages are also OK). I already searched and found some interesting projects using Google. I'm asking here just in case someone has a real experience with a given product. My needs are specially oriented toward HL7 and

Re: Support for SSL and OFX in Delphi 7

2007-09-14 Thread Francois PIETTE
But it must be supported over an SSL connection, Any suggestions? ICS-SSL support SSL with Delphi 7 and up. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS)

Re: Unserviced messages ?

2007-09-02 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have an application that sends messages to other applications. Also one I have not written. I wonder what will happen, if an application does not have a specific handler for that/those messages? Will a standard handling routine service them, so my application can go on doing its business,

Re: Passing an array

2007-08-05 Thread Francois PIETTE
I'd like to include my UnitR into the uses of any of my projects, and not have a fixed array size in R's code that I'd have to change to match whatever the calling routine is sending. It seems I should pass the array to R using a pointer to the calling routine's array and an integer

Re: Dynamically loading TTabSheets into a TPageControl fromexternalmodules?

2007-08-03 Thread Francois Piette
I currently develope application that uses TPageControl as some kind of container. I use ordinary TForm to be displayed on a tabsheet: simply create a form without window caption, create a new tabsheet, assing tabsheet to form.parent and make the form visible. Closing the form destroy

Re: TXMLDocument and ampersand

2007-07-24 Thread Francois Piette
Enclose it in a CDATASection. Not sure it would change anything except make the XML even less human readable. My goal is to have the XML the most human readable as possible, with best indentation. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare

Re: TXMLDocument and ampersand

2007-07-24 Thread Francois Piette
nodexamp;#13;amp;#10;y/node That's not what Francois wants. He wants this: nodex#13;#10;y/node Right ! The XML serializer, though, doesn't normally bother with character entities for normal printable characters like carriage return and line feed. Instead, it outputs this: nodex y/node

TXMLDocument and ampersand

2007-07-23 Thread Francois Piette
When I write an ampersand () to the value of an XML node, TXMLDocument replace it with amp; entity which is fine since when reading it back it is transformed to the original ampersand. But my problem is that I want to write CRLF par as #13;#10; to avoid having the CRLF written as is in the XML

Re: Compile rc files by IDE?

2007-07-22 Thread Francois PIETTE
I understand that I can manually call brcc32.exe to compile .rc files into .res files. My question is, is there a way to configure Delphi IDE to compile .rc files automatically every time it's changed? Adding .rc files to the project didn't help. As a matter of fact, after adding a few

Re: Open files?

2007-05-28 Thread Francois PIETTE
Does that mean that I may end up with 100s of open files, or will they be closed down automatically, as I leave the subroutine? Yes, you'll have 100s of open files. No file are closed automatically when you leave a subroutine. Is there a way to find out how many open files an application

Re: problems with SizeOf

2007-05-18 Thread Francois PIETTE
Why it returns 16 instead of 15? It is because the data is aligned to word or double-word boundaries for faster access? Yes, it is. How do I get the real size then? Cancel align;ent using packet keyword: TSample = packed record end; -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

Re: How to remove .Net from Delphi 2006 ?

2007-05-02 Thread Francois Piette
Does anyone knows how to remove .Net from Delphi 2006 ? You don't. The IDE itself is a .Net application. It should be a Win32 app because I've seen a special version of Delphi 2006 running on Windows without .NET platform. Why it loads up the .NET DLLs by default also puzzles me. Maybe

Re: application directory in NT service

2007-04-30 Thread Francois PIETTE
Someone know how to get the directory my application is sitting in if running in TService ? Do you mean (1) the directory where the executable file is or (2) the current directory ? (1) = ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName) (2) = GetCurrentDirectory If you have no access in (1) to the

Re: Re[2]: Can a class be split into two files?

2007-04-25 Thread Francois Piette
It's the main form class. For functional classes, I always try to keep them small and manageable. However, in the form class, the GUI control declaration, event and message handlers, and GUI related code will make the class large already. I had understood that. Nevertheless, what I was trying

Re: Quick question slightly left of being On Topic!

2007-04-19 Thread Francois Piette
Try this one: http://www.mesnews.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: Robert Meek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Delphi-Talk delphi-talk@elists.org Sent:

Re: Network Video Streaming

2007-04-18 Thread Francois PIETTE
I am looking for a way to stream live video over network/internet. I came across TVideoGrabber but It is rather expensive for what I want to do. So, if anyone knows of anyway To accomplish that would please let me know. I am using Delphi7. Do you want to use standard protocols or do you

Re: vcl runtime

2007-04-07 Thread Francois PIETTE
In the project options, in the packages tab, check (or uncheck) the build with runtime packages and edit the list of packages you want to be used at runtime. Any package not listed there will be compiled into your application. If you uncheck build with runtime packages then your application

Re: Problem using socket connections

2007-03-29 Thread Francois Piette
I'm not a specialist of indy (Since I wrote ICS), but the problem you mention may be related to the naggle algorithm. Do a search on Google to know more. Maybe do some testing with ICS :-) Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS

Re: Delphi 2005... Delphi 2007

2007-03-12 Thread Francois Piette
'Delphi 7' is back. This is a great news. I was really waiting for it and I started to loose my trust in Borland. Imagine that I paid for Delphi 2005 and still used Delphi 7. Something was wrong all those years at Borland's home. From what I have seen on the Internet, lots of people were

Re: Delphi 2005... Delphi 2007

2007-03-09 Thread Francois Piette
Is anyone on the list using Delphi 2005? I don't. I'm already using Delphi 2007 :-)) Is Delphi 2007 available as trial? It is not available as trial nor commercial. It is simply that I'm a fieldtester for Delphi 2007 and highlander for months. I've been grante the right by

Re: Delphi 2005...

2007-03-06 Thread Francois Piette
Is anyone on the list using Delphi 2005? I don't. I'm already using Delphi 2007 :-)) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be ___ Delphi mailing

Re: memory leak in Delphi

2007-03-02 Thread Francois Piette
It is not because a leak concern a memory allocated from a system.pas function that it is a bug into Delphi code. Could you tell use what are the leaks you've found ? fyi: I'm using FastMM features to detect leaks in my Delphi 7 program and I have no problem at all. All leaks found where my own

Re: Help with media player needed

2007-02-22 Thread Francois Piette
Why not import the Windows Media Player (WMP.DLL) into Delphi and then use it ? You can then do something like this: FMediaPlayer:= TWindowsMediaPlayer.Create(Self); FMediaPlayer.Visible:= FALSE; FMediaPlayer.uiMode := 'invisible';

Re: Runtime package version

2007-02-04 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have a D7 program using runtime packages (rtl70 and vcl70). Is there a way to programmatically know which file is actually loaded and get his version info resource ? This is to solve a problem when an old and a new rtl70/vcl70 versions exists on a given system (D7/SP1 doesn't like to work

Re: Runtime package version

2007-02-04 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have a D7 program using runtime packages (rtl70 and vcl70). Is there a way to programmatically know which file is actually loaded and get his version info resource ? This is to solve a problem when an old and a new rtl70/vcl70 versions exists on a given system (D7/SP1 doesn't like to work

Runtime package version

2007-02-01 Thread Francois Piette
I have a D7 program using runtime packages (rtl70 and vcl70). Is there a way to programmatically know which file is actually loaded and get his version info resource ? This is to solve a problem when an old and a new rtl70/vcl70 versions exists on a given system (D7/SP1 doesn't like to work with

Re: Need a good unit for tray icon display

2007-01-27 Thread Francois PIETTE
There is one built-in Delphi 2006. Probably available for BCB2006 as well. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: Fastream Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: delphi-talk@elists.org Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: Need a good unit for

Re: Secure FTP in Delphi 6.0

2007-01-21 Thread Francois Piette
Does anyone know of a SFTP component for Delphi 6.0? Do you need SFTP or FTPS ? SFTP is FTP over SSH. FTPS is FTP over SSL. SSH is a terminal emulation protocol which is sometimes used for tunnelling other applications such as FTP. SSL is the Secure Socket Layer (Also known as TLS) which is a

Re: Delphi2006 snap to grid

2007-01-20 Thread Francois PIETTE
I have just upgraded from Delphi5 to Delphi2006. I am having trouble positioning components on my forms. Can anyone tell me how I can turn off the feature that makes my components line up with all sorts of other objects, and let me use the old way of snap to grid? The option you are looking

Re: Visibility and Scope

2006-12-31 Thread Francois Piette
Use an include file containing the definition for the enum. You'll then have two definition for the enum. You'll probably have to cast one into the other. Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite,

Re: Re[2]: Which languages are you working in ?

2006-11-11 Thread Francois PIETTE
Robert, I think you missed the fact that this advertisement is a very very old one ! It was taken for Borland Developer Conference in 1995. All BDC started with some kind of funny video clip. It is there only for kidding. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message -

Re: //IP addresses and domain names

2006-11-10 Thread Francois Piette
I'm looking for a way to programmatically find the domain name(s) associated with an IP address, like the various whois websites do. Any help? There is a whois component available for ICS. Have a look at the usermade page at ICS website http://www.overbyte.be If you need help with ICS, it is

Re: Help on ICS's HTTP client component

2006-11-09 Thread Francois Piette
This message is a re-post of a message sent to the delphi-talk list. You should really post your message to ICS support mailing list (twsocket@elists.org). Of course you must first subscribe to the list ! Please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket. I'm having some trouble

Re: It will .Net eat other languages?

2006-11-09 Thread Francois Piette
Is time for me to drop Delphi and start learning that .Net stuff? You can write .net application using Delphi today ! You don't need to abandon Delphi to write .NET applications. Just continue to use Delphi ! btw: Reading your post, I think you are confusing .net with a language (C# ?). But

Re: Help on ICS's HTTP client component

2006-11-09 Thread Francois Piette
I'm having some trouble using the THttpCli component from the ICS suite. I'm using this component to simply download a document off a web site (the document might be a configuration file or a compressed DLL file or whatever). It mostly works but some times it just stops (gets stuck in a state

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