Re: [DUG] Lazarus

2022-07-04 Thread John Bird
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Re: [DUG] Is this list still active?

2022-07-03 Thread John Bird
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[DUG] Server 2019

2020-12-17 Thread John Bird
Anyone had issues with Delphi software on server 2019? I have some software that is having issues on a server: a.. Delphi 2007 calling win32 standard call CopyFile(Pchar(sourcefile), PChar(Destfilename), False) is failing on some larger files with file not found – it does not copy the file

Re: [DUG] Power laptops

2020-12-16 Thread John Bird
calls because its run out of memory – Teams seems to be the worst offender. Actually SSMS is pretty bad too – notice a pattern? John Bird | Software Developer Regional HealthOne Programme [cid:image001.png@01D4BFC3.D469D2E0][cid:image001.png@01D6D456.ED67D810] From: delphi-boun...@listserver

[DUG] Power laptops

2020-11-20 Thread John Bird
Another topic I would love feedback on – I have had sterling service from my reliable HP Envy laptop – it is still power specs even today (I7 CPU, 16GB RAM, originally 2TB HDD – now SSD, 17” 1920x1080) but it is 7 years old and no more RAM upgrade possible (only DDR3) , and looking around for

Re: [DUG] Screen Resolution and WIndows 10 settings and Delphi

2020-11-20 Thread John Bird
Thanks, a lot of useful comments, especially about external monitors. As far a the comment who still develops new applications in Delphi – well most interested to read what is better and your reasons (I may have something to say about a new application shortly – and it is

Re: [DUG] Screen Resolution and WIndows 10 settings and Delphi

2020-11-16 Thread John Bird
Looking at high resolution screens – external monitor and replacing laptop i.e. going to 3840x2160 instead of 1920x1080 I have seen one and its nice, under display settings in Windows 10 it had “Change the size of text, apps and other items” set to 300% Questions: 1.. What is this setting

Re: [DUG] Oh oh - Delphi is apparently not good for your CV

2020-08-04 Thread John Bird
You are not making the elementary mistake of "because it's on the Internet it must be true" are you? You can just say "Anders H" being the author of both Delphi and .NET, and at least with Delphi you can take a 10 or 15 year old program and it is easy or easy enough to build it with the

Re: [DUG] Delphi Environment variables

2019-12-30 Thread John Bird
at runtime. Having a list of the defined vars would be useful, but I can’t even find that. Rather frustrating… From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Tuesday, 31 December 2019 11:06 AM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi E

Re: [DUG] Delphi Environment variables

2019-12-30 Thread John Bird
Message bodyPart of the answer: bin folder will be below the BDS folder Also see http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Compiler_Versions If you change the defaults, a good idea is to take a screenshot of the screen before starting the install showing the folders set showing the

[DUG] Software updaters

2019-12-08 Thread John Bird
Message bodyEvery developer/package seems to write their own – I am wondering if there are any packages out there for a software provider to use to do simple tasks like: a.. Get started from time to time to check a web site to see if updated files are present b.. Which URL and which file(s)

[DUG] Position available

2019-01-27 Thread John Bird
integration technologies - FHIR, JSON, XML, SSIS all heavily used. Contact us for more information John Bird | Senior Software Developer Healthone Pegasus Health (Charitable) Ltd This email or attachment(s) may contain

Re: [DUG] Windows Surface

2016-12-12 Thread John Bird
At first they came out in 2 flavours, full WIndows 10 version on Intel type CPU. Also a “lite” cut down second model that ran only WIndows RT (on an ARM processor I think). and had Windows 10 and Office cross compiled to it, and only ran universal Apps from the Windows Store, of which there

[DUG] Firemonkey grid colours

2016-10-26 Thread John Bird
For a Firemonkey stringgrid I wish to color some rows depending on the data in one cell (column 3 has a web return code from a web call, eg 200 or 404 etc) Firemonkey is quite different from how to do it in a VCL stringgrid. Example below is best code I have found so far. This code works in

Re: [DUG] Testing internet web site connections

2016-10-12 Thread John Bird
. http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html Ross. From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 9:30 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Testing internet web

[DUG] Testing internet web site connections

2016-10-12 Thread John Bird
I have been considering writing something to monitor connectivity to a few web sites- note not detecting whether there is an internet connection, but whether a number of sites are responding. Some http and some https. (Have got tired of opening a CMD prompt and pinging sites) I have

Re: [DUG] Procedure run from main program

2016-10-11 Thread John Bird
Agreed about previous comments and this one too – I had standalone code that does this and you get into weird distortions if you scale same form more than once, so refer always to original sizes. Also you may need to do extra for grids – grid font size has to be checked against default row

Re: [DUG] Anti-virus software

2016-08-24 Thread John Bird
In case you didn't see this - this was a talk that took a lot of people by surprise - the NSA head of APT (Advanced Persistent Threats) describing how national governments penetrate networks, and advice how network admins can make it harder for them to get in.

Re: [DUG] Anti-virus software

2016-08-23 Thread John Bird
Occasional friends flash drive may do it remember about 3 years ago when the entire Waikato Hospital system was brought down by a virus for about 3 days - someone put a USB drive in the Wilsons car park office computer apparently. Know of office network drives getting crypto locker on

Re: [DUG] Anti-virus software

2016-08-23 Thread John Bird
I generally keep an eye on av-comparatives.org and overall Avast, AVG and Avira all have free versions and all score comparable as any commercial ones. Of the commercial ones Kaspersky and Norton usually score high. Personally been fond of Avira for a few years, have used Avast as well.

Re: [DUG] BERLIN and DB connectivity

2016-08-17 Thread John Bird
: Tony Blomfield Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:41 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] BERLIN and DB connectivity OK Thanks for that. See below From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird

Re: [DUG] BERLIN and DB connectivity

2016-08-17 Thread John Bird
My most recent serious DB work was using standard IB components to open two embedded Firebird databases and ADO to use MSSQL DB, and using TCLientDataSets to merge data from all of them. There has always been a reasonable number of good options of what component sets to use – even the old

Re: [DUG] In [set] efficiency

2016-06-07 Thread John Bird
I don’t know the compiler for sure on this, but surely has to be that the set option gets compiled like a case statement, which minimises the number of comparisons made. Speaking of which, I just this week combined this with a case statement – not clearly documented but it does work. This

[DUG] Berlin

2016-04-21 Thread John Bird
Anyone have the link for the Berlin yet? (V10.1) Prefer the ISO link, but any will do with a long weekend ahead ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz Admin:

Re: [DUG] Seattle questions

2016-04-11 Thread John Bird
ogies if this comes across as doom or nay saying but if Delphi is to be assessed properly in the current context then we need to make sure we are properly across that context and not looking at it through rose tinted specs. On 11 April 2016 at 16:33, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz>

Re: [DUG] Seattle questions

2016-04-10 Thread John Bird
My perspective, and its a partial one. But I work in a house using both XE8/Seattle and C# Q1 – XE8 is fine (our current production version) and all the comments about Seattle I have heard are good – large projects more stable in particular. Q2 · Which is more effective at producing

[DUG] WIndows 10 Oddity - Icon disappears from Taskbar

2016-01-23 Thread John Bird
I have a program built under D2007, I recently added the line to the DPR file Application.MainFormOnTaskbar := True;//V3.15.12.3 And since then at unpredictable times the icon will disappear from the taskbar. I think have seen same on Windows 7. Task manager or pressing Alt+Tab shows its

[DUG] DUnit problem XE8

2016-01-13 Thread John Bird
An oddity in case anyone has an idea on this one: We run unit tests on one web service, these always run and pass (8 tests) when run as the exe file - eg running CertainWebServiceTests.exe We also build these as console apps run from the command line when done in typical build scenarios using

[DUG] Resource compiler

2015-12-20 Thread John Bird
myOffice Email MessageD2007, and one of my oldest programs uses a resource file with a couple of icon images for the application and I want to add a couple more. The Old Program used to have 2 states I showed via different taskbar icons, now it has 4. Problem – I cannot recall how I originally

Re: [DUG] Resource compiler

2015-12-20 Thread John Bird
Either way tho I would use a separate, dedicated and additional resource file rather than the one linked to the DPR filename (if you aren't already) to avoid the IDE trampling over it. hth On 21 December 2015 at 17:21, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: D2007, and one

[DUG] Windows 10 - some oddities

2015-12-03 Thread John Bird
Overall Windows 10 is good (the 5th upgrade attempt worked like a charm – hint make sure your BIOS and drivers have got all updates available) However note these: These observations are mainly using D2007 and in some cases D10 Seattle. 1 – Under Windows 10 there are two ways to change the size of

Re: [DUG] Reporting Engines

2015-09-01 Thread John Bird
Used Report Builder on Delphi 5 on a legacy system with some pretty complex reports, including generating courier post tickets with line barcodes (Code128D) and 2d barcodes. Was converted to XE5 recently, and I hear was a fairly easy process - Report Builder has its own way of working, along

Re: [DUG] Installing Delphi 7 onto laptop with no CD drive

2015-08-09 Thread John Bird
myOffice Email MessageAnother thing that will help, if you are on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 these can natively open ISO files. (That and 3 finger scrolling made Windows 8 better than 7 despite the ‘orrible start menu). Otherwise get Virtual CLone drive with its lovely sheep logo. Just right

Re: [DUG] Windows 10 issues

2015-08-04 Thread John Bird
Well one thing has worked flawlessly – finally I chose the option to roll back to WIndows 8.1 – there is under settings/recovery options to reset windows or roll back.That option worked flawlessly – everything installed previously is there except saved wireless networks – for some weird

Re: [DUG] Windows 10 issues

2015-07-29 Thread John Bird
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[DUG] Windows 10 issues

2015-07-29 Thread John Bird
the window/form sizes but does NOT change the DPI setting. This means the fonts on Delphi forms becomes smudged. I had some quite good workarounds for sizing grids/column widths/fonts when text size was set to 125% but these will have to be revisited for Windows 10 John Bird |HealthOne

Re: [DUG] EMBARCADERO MY GRIPE

2015-07-28 Thread John Bird
I don’t know RemObjects C# or Oxygene. I read the site and their viewpoint on using native API’s is a worthwhile debate.I would have these queries: 1 – Where does it rate on the number of users? Community support, code snippets etc is as important as everything else. 2 – It is the

Re: [DUG] EMBARCADERO

2015-07-27 Thread John Bird
I have several contacts with them and they are responsive. Contact me if you are having problems and I can give you the Oz contacts who seem to reply readily, and also one I have from UK. Oddly when I was in Sweden last year, somehow they must have detected I was there – I think when I

[DUG] Button hints access violation

2015-07-01 Thread John Bird
Here is an odd one – I have only seen this on one PC (Windows 7 64 bit), and on that PC only sometimes – mainly it behaves. One program I have written in Delphi 2007 has buttons and controls with hints showing (set up the standard way in IDE at design time). Sometimes on mousing over the

[DUG] Libraries and 64 bit

2015-06-09 Thread John Bird
We started to test whether some web services would compile under 64bit Windows (currently all are 32 bit Windows) as all the relevant servers are 64bit. Investigated code, looking for points in

Re: [DUG] XE8 with Castalia and MMX

2015-06-03 Thread John Bird
. When I first installed XE8 I had similar issue and the reason found was the MMX. We reported the error to Model Maker and they suggested us to first install XE8 run the IDE once before installing MMX. This step fixed the issue for me. Thanks Razal On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:14 PM, John Bird johnkb

[DUG] Embedded Web Browser mystery

2015-04-14 Thread John Bird
XE7 – we have a real mystery going on with an Embedded Web Browser (3rd party variant of TWebBrowser with more properties and methods exposed). Have an application where a web page calls a snippet of HTML and calls some script files in javascript and a particular response which does an Ajax

[DUG] XE8

2015-04-12 Thread John Bird
major upgrades (i.e. XE7 to XE8) e.. Three (3) annual developer support incidents f.. Exclusive bonus features, add-ons, and technical content g.. Annually renewable at a fraction of a single upgrade cost (*) * Typically 30% of new licence cost John Bird

Re: [DUG] Delphi vs C# for web services performance

2015-03-25 Thread John Bird
Jolyon, Am interested in looking at your JSON library – we use the lkJSON library which is adequate, and the inbuilt system.JSON - but the have heard several comments for doing various serialising of FHIR objects into either XML or JSON that the Delphi JSON libraries seem to be problematic

[DUG] Delphi vs C# for web services performance

2015-03-22 Thread John Bird
There is a web service we might are looking at implementing. We could use either Delphi or C#. Performance is highly critical. Will be getting getting REST request, getting data from a DB. and packaging it into XML or JSON according to the request. We have noticed that some C# web

[DUG] XE7/AppMethod Demo Musical

2015-02-19 Thread John Bird
This is priceless and made my Friday!! We need more of this creativity – this an example of real cool programming. http://delphi.org/2015/02/code-monkey-in-delphi-code/ From Jim McKeeth – he set himself to write code where the code was lyrics to a song and the output of the code was the

Re: [DUG] iOS 64bit - Delphi vs Java

2015-01-29 Thread John Bird
I have been involved in migrating a BDE application from Delphi 5 to XE5, and it still uses the BDE. No problem. Not abandoned – so what is your point? The reasons they still use the BDE are 1 – No work to do other than figure out installing it on Windows 7 etc 2 – The BDE despite being a

[DUG] XE7 and Indy FTPs

2015-01-25 Thread John Bird
Trying to switch some existing Indy FTP code to FTPs, it connects but fails the moment try to either list dir/Get or Put file with errors like: “Policy requires SSL”. The connection is set up according to the real sparse information on the web about Indy and FTPs, (for instance the Indy FTP

[DUG] XE7 git

2014-12-21 Thread John Bird
I see there has been publicity of a critical bug in Windows/MacOS clients for git that has been fixed, does this mean there may be a patch update coming for XE7?___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz

[DUG] OpenID JWT validation

2014-09-16 Thread John Bird
Anyone know of good implementation in Delphi of processing OpenID Authorisation (similar to login via Facebook or Google) – specifically using JSON Web Keys to validate users – the only part we need. XE5. Work has been using one library which is proving to be bug ridden, we haven’t so far

Re: [DUG] Email attachment encoding/decoding

2014-09-14 Thread John Bird
Looks like the best is to base64 encode the file, that seems to avoid these oddities. Gets rid of all newlines and “.” characters. From: Robo Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 6:00 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Email attachment encoding/decoding Yeah,

[DUG] Email attachment encoding/decoding

2014-09-12 Thread John Bird
I have a program that sends data via an email attachment, the file data is encoded into ascii text (ie all characters are ASCII and the whole range can be used) and contains CRLF between the lines of data. Sending and receiving is done via standard email programs, so the encoding/decoding is

Re: [DUG] Anti virus software

2014-09-10 Thread John Bird
My new PC came with Norton, of which later versions generally gets a good review. It looked good, clear and informative and light on resources. When the free trial expired I read reviews on www.av-test.org, where of the free ones Avira scored top, better overall than Eset, Norton, AVG.

Re: [DUG] Anti virus software

2014-09-10 Thread John Bird
The latest version of Sysinternals Process Explorer contains an option to check virus totals for running processes (and also to verify signatures). Must submit files to multiple AV checkers, as gives totals such as 0/54 for good files. ___ NZ

[DUG] [DUG-OFFTOPIC] New Delphi Time Recording Software available for Free Field Test

2014-08-24 Thread John Bird
Hello all – I have a full standalone version of my Time Recording Software now ready and available for field test. Main Features: a.. Free to download and use b.. Usage charges apply after quite a while – starts with a credit balance likely to last weeks or months c.. For those field

Re: [DUG] ListView - Scroll Event

2014-07-27 Thread John Bird
Haven’t tried with Listview, but in stringgrid and listbox, checkbox etc the onclick event fires with the mouse, or on moving with the arrow key (D2007). (As long as there is a current element its more or less logical to have a click event also respond to the keyboard as it wouldn’t be much

Re: [DUG] ListView - Scroll Event

2014-07-27 Thread John Bird
I have not used Listviews – for displaying lists I have generally used grids, listboxes, or checklistboxes. Out of curiosity what are the main advantages of Tlistview as it seems to have a couple of extra hurdles to use. Or is it better to go the whole way and use something like Virtual Tree

Re: [DUG] ListView - Scroll Event

2014-07-27 Thread John Bird
I see on a little research that Virtual Tree View is still open source and has been moved from SoftGems to Jam – versions up to XE5 look to be available at http://www.jam-software.com/virtual-treeview/ Any comments on worth versus ease of use? From: Eric A Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:47 PM

Re: [DUG] Shellexecute question

2014-07-24 Thread John Bird
...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2014 4:43 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Shellexecute question I have a program (Program A) that fires up another (program B) via

Re: [DUG] Shellexecute question

2014-07-24 Thread John Bird
TMyForm.MMInitialise(var aMessage: TMessage); begin // Do initialisation here... end; Good luck On 25 July 2014 00:22, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hey that should have been perfect, as I already was doing SW_SHOWMINIMIZED which works fine, and so does SW_SHOWNOACTIVE which also does what

Re: [DUG] xtra SMTP/SSL settings

2014-07-24 Thread John Bird
Just in case there is another problem with send.xtra.co.nz that you may not have forseen – xtra had a problem with a lot of their email accounts over recent weeks, and ended up disabling them. If you cannot log into the webmail interface this is the issue, and I had to ring them twice to solve

Re: [DUG] Shellexecute question

2014-07-24 Thread John Bird
July 2014 12:43, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nz wrote: It looks like the code in D2007 Application.Run is the later one. I would like to solve this at some stage out of curiosity so will return. The SW_SHOWMINIMIZED works as expected which is a puzzle. Usual story however

[DUG] Shellexecute question

2014-07-23 Thread John Bird
I have a program (Program A) that fires up another (program B) via ShellExecute, if its not already running. However even though Program B is started minimised, focus shifts away from Program A, which is a minor nuisance. Is there any way to stop this within Delphi? Or will I have to do

[DUG] XE6 Misc notes

2014-07-21 Thread John Bird
Started migrating to XE6 update 1, a few things I noticed: -There is more functionality back in the IDE wrt installing components – (I installed my minimal set of external components easily even without using this). A few minor things such as centuryWindow and DecimalSeparator seem to have

Re: [DUG] Opinion wanted - is the upgrade from XE5 to XE6 worthwhile

2014-07-13 Thread John Bird
The modern graphical world is a new complexity, but I past years I looked after a code base (not Pascal/Delphi) across 3 operating systems (PDP, Dos/Windows, and Unix) where the code was about 99.5-100% common in a code base of 1 million+ lines. There we isolated anything that differed in any

Re: [DUG] RAD 2007 to what

2014-07-10 Thread John Bird
, the validity of your upgrade licenses becomes doubtful. You can apply to transfer licenses, but it's far from straightforward. On 9 July 2014 22:40, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nz wrote: As far as I understand, yes – back to about D2007 I think. I have more versions of Delphi than I can shake

Re: [DUG] RAD 2007 to what

2014-07-09 Thread John Bird
As far as I understand, yes – back to about D2007 I think. I have more versions of Delphi than I can shake a stick at (XE2,XE5,XE6). Aside – its a pity there is not a way to donate an unused version to eg a student as part of the up and coming Delphi community. From: Robo Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [DUG] RAD 2007 to what

2014-07-08 Thread John Bird
First reaction would be unless you need Unicode for your users you could stay on D2007 - I am running it on Windows 8.1. BDE even will still work, but you could look at moving to another database. Firebird or MySQL Migration ease depends largely on what external components you have

Re: [DUG] Saving aray

2014-07-07 Thread John Bird
. There will be some way of doing that I believe and it should very fast. From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Monday, 7 July 2014 8:35 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Saving aray I have

Re: [DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

2014-07-03 Thread John Bird
Sounds to me like the data needs to be hidden from the web site in a database with authentication to view records. You could easily allow users to see say some eg 100-200 records even if not authenticated but not more. There is a similar restriction in data for instance with electoral roles –

Re: [DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

2014-07-02 Thread John Bird
. They will be at their best when they are comfortable and at the end of the day that is what I want. The less interviews I have to do, the better! I think I've successfully side stepped the response you were hoping to get :-) On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nz wrote

Re: [DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

2014-07-02 Thread John Bird
This is a good conversation. The last paragraph is the nub of it to me – is there more as a local Delphi community and developers we could be doing to improve the eco-system and computer literacy and quality of intellectual thinking? The IT industry is no place for complacency – I do wonder at

Re: [DUG] Delphi Git

2014-05-29 Thread John Bird
Related – anyone have experience in keeping a repository (SVN or GIT) encrypted? I been wondering about keeping it on a Google Drive, without the folks at Google, their NSA buddies and their Chinese rivals being able steal my clever ideas. (I would think there is nothing to interest them

Re: [DUG] Delphi Git

2014-05-28 Thread John Bird
myOffice Email MessageI heard somewhere about Delphi projects on GitHub being quite extensive. Other than that I worked with someone who knew git and was keen for the team to try it – all were using Tortoise/SVN. By all accounts excellent for security and branching, and somewhat more

Re: [DUG] Auckland Event Details

2014-04-30 Thread John Bird
For anyone not able to attend there is an online webinar launch, 3 times today starting in a few hours – first at 6 am PDT. http://forms.embarcadero.com/VCLDevGuidetoXE6Webinar?cid=701G000tXVzelq=40c749cf253e4f0fa1be0bbdb9b0f6a8elqCampaignId=1463 From: Gary Benner Sent: Wednesday, April

Re: [DUG] BDE and Windows 8.1

2014-04-10 Thread John Bird
I work with a Dev a PC with Win 7 Pro 32 bit with Delphi 5 and BDE (along with XE5). Delphi 5 and BDE installs and runs fine, with the following oddity - have found that have to leave the BDE open when developing in D5 in order to not have some of the database servers/databases not disappear.

[DUG] Windows 8.1 issue - D2007 Debugging

2014-01-15 Thread John Bird
Another strange issue – tidying up source in D2007 before moving to XE5, and the debugger for D2007 is not working on WIndows 8.1 64 bit – the reason is the output folder which is set correctly in the project for the .EXE file is being ignored when building and running – the EXE file ends up in

Re: [DUG] Windows 8.1 issue - D2007 Debugging

2014-01-15 Thread John Bird
. The output path will now be respected. From: John Bird Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:58 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Windows 8.1 issue - D2007 Debugging Another strange issue – tidying up source in D2007 before moving to XE5, and the debugger for D2007

[DUG] Windows 8.1 issue - D2007 Rave printing

2014-01-14 Thread John Bird
Existing programs D2007 (compiled Windows 7 and also compiled on Windows 8.1) have hit a problem with printing – I use the Rave Reports printing engine to print, either to PDF format (using one of the Rave components) or to a virtual PDF writer printer as is common practice to get PDF output

[DUG] Android Location Sensor demo

2013-12-09 Thread John Bird
of the units that these figures are in. I would like to assume meters, but being US it could be a guess. John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo

Re: [DUG] Strange Error in Android

2013-12-03 Thread John Bird
data and source to and from Unix from Windows files often need to be converted by utilities (I have one using sed). (Source would not compile until converted) John Bird From: Jolyon Smith Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 10:50 AM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG

Re: [DUG] Connectionless recordsets

2013-11-03 Thread John Bird
the advantage of being a lot faster – I learnt a lot of such tricks from studying the recommended practices in the TKBMemTable which is a fast superset of the ClientDataSet and is a free download, with a $5 help file that was well worth the purchase. John Bird From: Gary T. Benner [Reply] HI Jeremy

[DUG] XE5 Android questions

2013-09-22 Thread John Bird
fingerprint is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx..OK. Once that is OK'd it appears. But the Nexus 4 never shows that dialog. All the same developer options are turned on otherwise. Any ideas? John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post

Re: [DUG] Finding all instances of a component where a property has notbeen set

2013-09-09 Thread John Bird
something smarter and a special tool may be needed. John Bird -Original Message- From: Robert Martin Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:16 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Finding all instances of a component where a property has notbeen set Hi all We have

[DUG] Webinar on Firemonkey 3 Download

2013-07-28 Thread John Bird
direction? (Google did not help in this case) John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@listserver.123

Re: [DUG] OT Phone and Windows compatibility

2013-06-17 Thread John Bird
/blog/app-builder/why-android-studio-looks-very-promising-a-hands-on-review/2710 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio Looks comprehensive and flash – a complete Java IDE. John Bird I guess I was saying if you need to lean Basic4Android why not just learn how to do what you need to in java

[DUG] Planning PC upgrade - Delphi IDE options

2013-04-28 Thread John Bird
if something goes wrong. pros of VM: a – make a standard setup VM b – can reset to standard setup VM Others opinions on any of these welcome! John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz

[DUG] Report Builder/Printer driver oddity

2013-03-27 Thread John Bird
is coming from standard TClientDataSet via Report Builder data pipeline as normal. The only thing added was an image which has the 2d barcode encoded into it. John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123

Re: [DUG] Report Builder/Printer driver oddity

2013-03-27 Thread John Bird
a long alleyway of low level windows stuff looking to do with Windows printing and screen updating and wasn’t much use so far. But I have a few things to look for so thanks all John Bird JBCL Contact: johnkb...@paradise.net.nz j...@jbcl.co.nz 022 3844 527 03 3844 527 http://www.jbcl.co.nz http

Re: [DUG] Screenshot application with mouse selection

2013-01-27 Thread John Bird
Windows 7 has one built in Windows Snip tool which does just that. Otherwise I would press the PrtScr button and paste the image into whatever paint or image program you use (Paint or IrfanView etc) and select the part of the image you want. John Bird From: Rogério Martins Sent: Sunday

Re: [DUG] AsyncPro

2012-11-13 Thread John Bird
Aside - I also spend a good amount of my time moving between XE2 to Delphi 5. Its not such a big deal swapping between the IDE's - apart from the layout differences there is more core similarity than differences. XE2 is a superset. The good news is I prefer XE2. John Bird

[DUG] Frebird index question

2012-10-28 Thread John Bird
Firebird V2 I have a large table (5,500,000+ records) that I just added an index to to speed some queries. So far it has not made much difference – is the existing data indexed immediately on creating the index? John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers

Re: [DUG] PDF from Delphi

2012-10-10 Thread John Bird
Hi options could be: install a PDF printer, (ie a virtual printer that creates PDFs when printed to from any program) such as DoPDF or PDFCreator (have used both). (Also Rave reports in Delphi and other report writers also can create PDFs as an output option directly - works well.) John Bird

Re: [DUG] Unicode help in D7

2012-10-03 Thread John Bird
have to specify to save as Unicode as a format to get it). ie it is pretty close to “it just works”. Source code similarly remains ANSI until you start saving Unicode strings – in that case it automatically switches to unicode. John Bird From: Ross Levis Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:15

[DUG] XE2 Key mapping

2012-10-01 Thread John Bird
sometimes and other times notany pointers also where to go to troubleshoot this would be welcome) John Bird ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@listserver.123.net.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

Re: [DUG] OT - Win8 check favour

2012-09-30 Thread John Bird
else is. Was already too much work getting that one file reliably under program files. Its not helped that the main offender against this noble idea of separation of programs and data folders is Microsoft itself - as they put their MS SQL databases under program files. John Bird

Re: [DUG] Delphi XE2 Upgrades

2012-08-07 Thread John Bird
I use D2007 for my stuff and XE2 at work. I much prefer XE2. Lots of refinements, and kinks ironed out and ever more power features. John Bird From: Kyley Harris Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:54 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi XE2 Upgrades

Re: [DUG] Screen resolution

2012-07-15 Thread John Bird
some of the code, or a test program I write to test the approach - but you are on the right track. Incidentally you may be better to use screen.WorkAreaWidth and screen.WorkAreaHeight etc as this takes out the space used by the task bar if applicable. John Bird -Original Message

Re: [DUG] [Off Topic]Warranty expired

2012-06-14 Thread John Bird
in the sense they didn’t have answers than a greater mystery being unfolded. So very good, not great, or great but not classically great. John Bird From: Kyley Harris Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:23 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] [Off Topic]Warranty expired I

Re: [DUG] Firebird V2 BDE Windows 7

2012-06-13 Thread John Bird
– the effort to change to other update mechanisms right though the code is more than the bother of using the BDE. Personally I rather like the BDE type of operation, simple and reliable and compares well to ADOQuery and IBQuery. What do others think? John Bird Hi John At http

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