Re: [DUG] Is this list still active?

2022-07-03 Thread Stefan Mueller
I use Inno Setup (free) for that: https://jrsoftware.org/ishelp/index.php?topic=setup_signtool Stefan Müller, ORCL Toolbox Ltd. Auckland, New Zealand -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird

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

2020-11-16 Thread Stefan Mueller
I just ported my application from xe7 to 10.4 … 10.4 has full support for modern dpi and font-sizes … but 3rd party controls just aren’t there yet with support for it and even very simple things (such as adjusting the x/y/h/w of a control) requires quite a bit of calculation. I found porting

Re: [DUG] Pointers help

2017-11-04 Thread Stefan Mueller
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Re: [DUG] Pointers help

2017-11-04 Thread Stefan Mueller
Ross, “array of bytes” isn’t the same as a “pointer” (nor is the same as a static array with a fixed length). Dynamic arrays are a managed data structure in Delphi that contain information such as length and a reference count (so Delphi can manage memory and free them if no longer used).

Re: [DUG] Delphi to Email

2017-05-28 Thread Stefan Mueller
Did you had a look at the Gmail Web API ? https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/ ... that way you can send emails and keep them for reference in the sent-folder (which is exactly what you want, as I understand). There are some various examples how to use the API .. mostly in java/python .. but

Re: [DUG] Timezones for Bills and things

2016-11-23 Thread Stefan Mueller
https://github.com/pavkam/tzdb has such a timezone database (2014 data). Using that library makes it easy to convert between timezones. I think http://www.iana.org/time-zones hosts the latest up to date time zone data that this tzdb database is based on in case you want to update it to the latest

Re: [DUG] Are these good ideas?

2016-11-15 Thread Stefan Mueller
Search your code for “length()” function –the length function on an ansistring has returned the size in bytes (8bit), now it returns the size in words (16bit). Places where you write strings to files and streams are usually places that need a fix. Do that search and you should probably have

Re: [DUG] Multi client website

2016-08-02 Thread Stefan Mueller
our web service can last that long, you already save some money compare to paying some commercial service without knowing if the project can survive. Regards Leigh On 1 August 2016 at 19:20, Stefan Mueller <muell...@orcl-toolbox.com> wrote: Leigh, >>To use asp.net

Re: [DUG] Multi client website

2016-08-01 Thread Stefan Mueller
>>I'm writing this in PHP5. Fair enough, I guess I’ll be stopping to spruik the benefits of ASP.Net MVC then. >>The plan is to have a sub-domain for each client from where it will jump to >>the "common" pages on the main domain. The index file on each sub.domain >>identifies the client

Re: [DUG] Multi client website

2016-08-01 Thread Stefan Mueller
s very slow to use asp.net mvc using amazon aws free server. It is very fast to do ubuntu linux on amazon aws ec2 free server to do web hosting. Regards Leigh On 31 July 2016 at 18:49, Stefan Mueller <muell...@orcl-toolbox.com> wrote: Couple of thoughts: ·Don’t use Delphi

Re: [DUG] Multi client website

2016-07-31 Thread Stefan Mueller
Couple of thoughts: ·Don’t use Delphi for that, use ASP.Net MVC ... if you do web then using a proper web development tool makes things a lot easier. Delphi IntraWeb is probably ok if you need to cobble together a simple page and only know Delphi .. but other than that it’s a dead-end.

Re: [DUG] Resource compiler

2015-12-20 Thread Stefan Mueller
I used this one here just recently (for embedding some transparent PNG-resources), did the job: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnreseditpe/ Kind regards, Stefan Müller, R Manager ORCL Toolbox Ltd. Auckland, New Zealand P Please consider the environment before printing this email

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

2015-03-22 Thread Stefan Mueller
Some thoughts: -The real processing of the data be that in C# or Delphi (encoding to json/xml, etc) will probably be in 1ms range. The slight speed advantage of native compiled Delphi code over C# is irrelevant compared to the overhead of database, network and webserver request

Re: [DUG] Anti virus software

2014-09-10 Thread Stefan Mueller
something slips through - after all I do release my software to over a thousand companies/government organizations worldwide and wouldn't want to deal with the blowback/reputation loss if my software ever would contain a virus. Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller -Original Message- From: delphi-boun

Re: [DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

2014-07-02 Thread Stefan Mueller
As a Swiss Delphi Developer living in New Zealand I find that interesting. Switzerland isn’t exactly at the top of my mind when I think about the “value for bucks” for outsourcing work to – not because you don’t get the quality, but because salaries there are almost twice what you would have

Re: [DUG] Using Boolean (Char(1)) in Firebird

2014-04-02 Thread Stefan Mueller
)) in Firebird (Stefan Mueller) 2. What is your experience with oxygene? (Leigh Wanstead) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:45:27 +1300 From: Stefan Mueller muell...@orcl-toolbox.com Subject: Re: [DUG] Using Boolean (Char(1

Re: [DUG] Using Boolean (Char(1)) in Firebird

2014-03-30 Thread Stefan Mueller
Jolyon already mentioned a lot of good things to look at (how often you update the data, the cardinality/distribution of the data you index, etc) I am more of an Oracle guy and never had any experience with FireBird/InterBase … but I guess those two characteristics will apply to any RDBMS

Re: [DUG] Contact form page

2014-03-19 Thread Stefan Mueller
a bit bigger more complex with multiple input forms then I seriously suggest you think twice before using PHP. Kind regards, Stefan Mueller, RD Manager ORCL Toolbox Ltd. Auckland, New Zealand P Please consider the environment before printing this email This message is intended

Re: [DUG] Conversion training

2013-11-18 Thread Stefan Mueller
the release of VB.Net that labeling is probably no longer warranted. Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/ http://www.orcl-toolbox.com From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun

Re: [DUG] Unicode help in D7

2012-10-02 Thread Stefan Mueller
things very easy. The TNT component pack adds Unicode enabled VCL-controls as well as Unicode Windows-API support for many functions(FileOpen,FileCreate,etc) and classes(WideStringList, etc). The library makes it easy to be dealing with Unicode. Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller

Re: [DUG] Unicode help in D7

2012-10-02 Thread Stefan Mueller
down that road to slowly Unicode enable your application (including later on maybe Form captions, labels, edits, listboxes, etc) then using widestring and something like TNT library on delphi7 is the easiest way (or upgrade to delphi2009) Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD

Re: [DUG] Does anyone have a copy of Mustang Peak's Dropdown form?

2012-09-11 Thread Stefan Mueller
, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/ http://www.orcl-toolbox.com From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Sean Cross Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:46 PM

Re: [DUG] [computing] Re: Creating lots of files on slow machines

2012-04-12 Thread Stefan Mueller
the win32api CreateFile() function with the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING flag set. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858(v=vs.85).as px Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com -Original Message

Re: [DUG] Suitable Database for XE2 Pro

2012-01-18 Thread Stefan Mueller
or anything to access the data. This requires either a commercial license of MySQL or that you release your product under GPL with complete source (MySQL is distributed under two licenses - GPL and a Commercial License). Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL

Re: [DUG] [computing]XE2 string conversion question

2012-01-18 Thread Stefan Mueller
haven't used it in any of my many projects since the old days of Turbo Pascal. Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/ http://www.orcl-toolbox.com From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun

Re: [DUG] Suitable Database for XE2 Pro

2012-01-18 Thread Stefan Mueller
outgrow the community edition of MySQL that there is at least something that has a bit more enterprise featuressupport if you need it. Still all 10 times cheaper than MSSQL/Oracle. Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com

Re: [DUG] Delphi XE

2011-12-31 Thread Stefan Mueller
Ah well, I guess this means that the decision to move to C# and .NET has been made. Sadly. Don't be too sad . at least you get: - always working code autocompletion/typeahead/codeformatting/etc in the IDE - a language that has some nice features(not just generics, also nullable datatypes,

Re: [DUG] Finding what type of executable a program is

2011-12-13 Thread Stefan Mueller
# (PE32+) 64bit shows as PE32+, 32bit shows as PE32 Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:27 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi

Re: [DUG] UPnP port forwarding

2011-09-06 Thread Stefan Mueller
!). Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/ From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Ross Levis Sent: Wednesday, September

Re: [DUG] UPnP port forwarding

2011-09-05 Thread Stefan Mueller
Regards, Stefan Mueller ___ RD Manager ORCL Toolbox LLP, Japan http://www.orcl-toolbox.com http://www.orcl-toolbox.com/ From: delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Ross Levis Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 7:30 PM