myOffice Email MessageAn aside - but to avoid date locale problems which I read
about here before I ever did SQL I have always tended to use
where ( END>='2010-02-22' and END <= '2010-02-26' )
instead of
where ( END>=#22 FEB 2010 00.00.00# and END <=#26 FEB 2010 00.00.00# )
but in practice
I don't think there is any real standard way to enter either times or time
intervals - what I do is use a straight edit box which allows several alternate
formats and convert the entry on the onexit event,
eg I can allow times like 1:10pm to be entered as
13:10
1:10pm
or time intervals can be
Incidentally I have taken to doing something similar with date entry. An edit
box, but in this case I put a little arrow button at the end of it, and
clicking that superimposes a date picker over the edit box. Its rather more
work but it works really neatly, and can be easily repeated.
Date
Did the D2007 version have the XP manifest?.on the same machine (XP
onwards) a program using XPManifest does invoke the later version of common
controls in COMCTRL32.DLL, so it is possible thats where the difference comes
from.
Of course this is only plausible if one of them was using diff
I have been puzzling over how a bitmap sometimes paints for a long time, I
have a circular image (of a LED) that I want to have a transparent
surrounding to as the LED is round and the surround is square.
In this case, I have 5 images in a Timagelist, and switch the one I want
using code like
all the time, so I want to fix it for once and all.
John Bird
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I solved the problem in this case by a work-around I should not have to do,
but its the easiest way to get it to work:
Instead of using a TImageList with 5 BMPs loaded, I used 5 Timage's, each
loaded with the correct transparent BMP, and according to which I want make
the relevant one visible a
I will try this again, but I think that is one of the combinations I tried.
I tried so many I am not sure any more!
As I said, its adding the XPManifest that actually breaks the
functionality...
John
When you add the images to the imagelist don't make them transparent.
Just set the transparent
Testing Zipmaster for creating zip archives. Looks good but - two
practical problems:
1 - Its Slow - archiving 60 files of around 150MB takes 2 mins 38 sec, by
comparison the old PKZIP takes 18 seconds.
2 - I managed to crash or terminate writing an archive once, and that left
the archive fi
7Zip you drive by Shellexecute and Command line? or is there a native
Delphi? If it is Shellexecute then I am fine using PKZIP - note there is a
later version (V4) called pkzipc that does long filenames, with a different
syntax.
About to check out Abbrevia for speed
John
_
Abbrevia looks good. 5 seconds slower than old PKZIP, thats acceptable for
what I want.
Anyone who knows Abbrevia shed light on this?
1 - How I programmatically change the ABZipKit1.Storeoptions at runtime?
If I try to do it in code the defined values soStripPath etc do not seem to
be define
I like Abbrevia, simpler and faster and native Delphi, so will be switching
to this.
I noticed that if a file is in use, it will be quietly skipped when making a
zip. (This is not unique to Abbrevia, they all seem to do the same).
Anyone know if there is anything to detect any files that coul
I decided to try some memory leak testing on a couple of programs to be sure
all is OK, and after googling figured that even though I have d2007 the best
was to download FastMM4 from source forge
This is what I figured to do to run the tests - anyone can correct me if I am
wrong:
1 - Add Uses
Tax calculations are tricky, as there are rules about either truncating to
whole dollars or down to whole cents. These are not maths functions, you
may have to make your own.
I have seen people do all sorts of tricks with formating floats as strings
and truncating, and converting back but to m
I have a connection to a MSSQL database that fails if the logged in user is
a non-administrative user on Windows XP
This is the connection string:
DefaultConnectionString:='Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;'
+'Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;'
+'User ID=sa;Initial Catalog=mob
Using a Firebird v2.0 embedded server setup to avoid having to install BDE
on client machine. Connection works fine.
Have a choice of which DB access components to use to access the FB.
Anyone else used embedded server and have any
experience/recommendations/gotchas/tips? particularly any pre
ay need to initialise it specifically, and check the AllowGrayed property
as well.
John Bird
JBCL
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- Original Message -
From: David O'Brien
To: NZ Borland D
I am pretty certain that 30/12/1899 is a unique start point for Delphi -
other systems (Unix and Windows) look to start at 1970 or 1980. I am
guessing as I haven't dealt with registry dates that you need to do
something similar to a file datestamp - FileDatetoDateTime and/or
FileTimeToSystemT
I suspect you want code a bit like examples below I found - its old, and
refers to NT/XP but I think its likely to be a good candidate:
http://delphi.about.com/od/delphitips2007/qt/directory_dates.htm
# Delphi's FileDateToDateTime converts the system time stamp of a file to a
TDateTime value.
#
The following code which worked in XP/Vista no longer works in Windows 7 -
it changes the application icon in the taskbar to show the state of
processing - in this case recording or pausing of automatic time recording.
Anyone have ideas on how to do this especially so it will work in all
versi
just the problem - I'll have a play with it.
>
> Jan
>
>
> On 27/05/10 21:54, John Bird wrote:
>> The following code which worked in XP/Vista no longer works in Windows
>> 7 -
>> it changes the application icon in the taskbar to show the state of
>> proces
This one has me foxed. I have a standard unit which is a form dialog at the
start of many programs - which gets an access code and a password.
In one program only it misbehaves - the Tedit fields never seem to get focus
properly, so although the users can type text, there is no cursor and the
t;accepted" first) for this control ?
Cheers,
Pieter
On 10/06/2010 21:20, John Bird wrote:
This one has me foxed. I have a standard unit which is a form dialog at the
start of many programs - which gets an access code and a password.
In one program only it misbehaves - the Tedit field
John,
Have you tried to set the tab order to 1 (or 0 - can't remember which is the
"accepted" first) for this control ?
Cheers,
Pieter
On 10/06/2010 21:20, John Bird wrote:
This one has me foxed. I have a standard unit which is a form dialog at the
start of many pr
want thread 2 to finish before thread 1...99% of the
time they do, then the time slicing kicks in and the code "breaks"
Anyways - well spotted and I like your saying !
Cheers,
Pieter
On 11/06/2010 03:13, John Bird wrote:
I have solved it.
Had to do bit by bit testing and deducti
Program not able to change its taskbar icon update - the program concerned
was being autostarted on login (ie there was a shortcut to it in the Startup
folder).
Windows 7 introduces some disabling of startup features if they require
elevation - changing the icon might be one of these. I have r
I have a utility program that converts one file to another, and is to be run
as a scheduled task on a Windows 2008 server.
Is there any reason one should not use a timer in a scheduled task? I am
told the logs show the program does not terminate, and I am wondering if
this is because there is
This routine does this, in this case there are variables declared elsewhere
Email, Subject, BodyText that are all strings and already populated.
Note some mail clients (Outloook Express) don't like the BodyText variable
being longer than a dozen or so characters.
procedure Tform1.makeEmail;
va
works on Windows
7/Windows Live Mail no problem!
John
Same with this one:
Thanks, but this actually sends the message. I just want a new mail window to
pop up without being sent.
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent
When a TDateTime is set from a DateTimePicker that is being used for Date
selections what is set for the time component? Or is it random? I am
wondering because two different pickers seem to return unrelated times and
it looks like I have to do some testing and correcting.
And for testing -
It looks like D5 does not have DateOf, but the Trunc function works fine (with
a comment of why). Thanks for Jolyon for the description of the oddities of
this control - it looks like he has been bitten by this oddity and knows it
well!
John
DateOf() is nothing more than a wrapper for Trunc(
I have D2007 on Windows 7, as far as I know I haven't used a Data module on
yet. However I have used a data module in a project running inside a VMWare
XP virtual PC on the Windows 7 box definitely with no problem accessing
databases. I do recall that the 'Database Not Set' might be caused
.
The ini file itself seems ok - at least to me.
Bob
From: John Bird
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 5:24 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Windows 7
I have D2007 on Windows 7, as far as I know I haven't used a Data module on
yet. However I have use
This is a very interesting topic - I would love to hear others ideas of
organising source for big projects, and any other web references.
My quick thoughts:
Note as far as the Delphi compiler is concerned it is fine with units of
thousands of lines, its still a one pass compiler, and if the IDE
be an
issue on certain networks, and then only sometimes.
John Bird
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From: Vik Vasudev
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:20 AM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List ; NZ Borland Developers
I think it disappeared in later Delphi,
I use any of IrfanView, PhotoFiltre, Paint.Net - all freeware - Irfanview
is a converter and viewer, the other two are excellent image editors and
convert too.
What do others use?
John
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From: "David"
C.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz]
> On Behalf Of John Bird
>
> I think it disappeared in later Delphi,
>
> I use any of IrfanView, PhotoFiltre, Paint.Net - all freeware -
> Irfanview
> is a converter
I have downloaded GIMP in the past, certainly I am familiar with linux and I
have seen people using GIMP, and Photoshop for editing pictures.
Why don't I use it? With GIMP and Photoshop I hardly know where to start.
For a start there are layers, some day I will figure out how to use layers.
I am trying to figure the implications for Delphi programs, and programs in
general, on screens where the screen is set to 120DPI, or other than the
standard 96DPI.
1 - Why do some screens get set up that way by network providers? Is it
common? I am presuming its either to get better perform
Well as I understand using 120DPI is for the same reason - making app windows
larger and easier to read on the screen - or at least the text larger. I have
users with oldest to newest screens - from about 800x600 up to 1920x1024 so I
have to do something like this for the form to be fairly cons
Dealing with a timing issue involving Firebird, probably the cause is a slow
workstation running the processing program.
The workstation occasionally sends a burst of transactions, each involving
adding new records to the same two tables. I presume Firebird can handle
this
The server is a FAS
these bursts of
transactions on an old slow Windows 2000 box...just wanted to eliminate
Firebird not keeping up.
John
Hi
FB should easily handle this. What is your error?
Cheers
Rob
On 22/07/2010 12:30 p.m., John Bird wrote:
Dealing with a timing issue involving Firebird, probably the cause
econd on a laptop alone.
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 1:27 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Firebird transactions
The error is same transaction going i
Any good reference tutorials on using this? I looked at it some years ago and
was quite baffled where to start. Speaking as someone used to driving the
drawcell events on standard stringgrids I would like to explore the stuff it
can do.
John
Is that not also the one that Embarcadero use too
A Windows 7 Clock look-alike this time - a bit smaller, fainter and more
refined than the last one. For screenshots, scroll to the bottom of this page:
http://sites.google.com/site/jbclnz2/abouttime
Email me if you would like a copy - standalone exe of 480K. Written using
D2007/Windows 7.
J
Dealing with a MSSQL database where the ID field is defined as Binary ( 8 ) and
using D2007 / ADO. I can open the table and read in data, but I cannot figure
out:
1 - how to get the ID value out of this field - when displayed a grid shows
this column as (BYTES), if I try to get the value as a
MessageDealing with index/ID field that is set as binary - here is the solution
that worked in case any one else comes across same
Note for MSSQL using such a field in a JOIN SQL statement would be perfectly
fine as normal, as MSSQL has a native binary type. Delphi ADO however does
not, s
I think I have to agree with your words[5] and words[6] . Where -
words:array[0..xxx] of string;
John
I work on systems where some idiot used a decimal(9,0) as a PK and mixed it
with other tables with integers, I think with any PK the main thing is use the
same otherwise you force the serve
Which way would you favour to do the following ?
I have two Delphi programs (A and B) that I will pass data from A to B - I will
probably use a file to put the data in because its quite structured. B will
sleep on a timer loop until this something is triggered.
What I want to do is send a si
e existence of the file.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis.
>
> --
> From: "John Bird"
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List"
> Subject: [DUG] Sending notification
I had thought of something just like this, having something in the data being
what B looks for and acts on, otherwise sleeps. However this makes it disk
based, and B has to poll. I was hoping something simple in memory could wake
up B rather than referring to the filesystem.
The main disadva
Not just Delphi - its an ancient Windows problem AFAIK. Even in Windows 7 I
have seen a control panel applets puts a modal dialog behind the window - often
the best solution is Windows+D (show desktop) and go thru all windows with
alt+Tab and usually the hidden modal dialog is found. Usuall
d.. Magnitude: 3.4
e.. Depth: 8 km
f.. Details: 10 km south-west of Christchurch
My house is in Mt Pleasant, but have been in Ak the last week. Decidedly
mixed feelings about not being there. House was OK last report, but thats some
30 aftershocks ago!
John Bird
JBCL
Contact
Thats a cute program!
Only correction needed is spelling - (Magnitude). The icon is spookily
appropriate - did you make it yourself or do you have access to a site with
earthquake icons?
John
From: Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:50 PM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group
Out of curiosity what is the page control you are using and the chart
component? I like both
John
HI guys. Here is the URL.
http://www.telsoft.net.nz/downloads/quake/QuakeCheck.zip
There might be the odd bug. I was really only doing it for my own amusement,
but nothing too obvious has s
I have a source generation program to speed creating of sets of labels and
edit boxes on a form - which gives output like examples below.
I paste the code that goes in the DFM onto the form, and it creates all the
components - a neat Delphi trick for those who might not know.
My problem is tha
The correct spot being? (that was my question! - there looks to be rules I
did not know about. )
Form inheritance - not applicable so much in this case, as the set of labels
and edit boxes vary totally from case to case. I just got tired of the
repetitive task of creating large sets of these
Thanks, I had sort of figured it out, but I didn't know the reason.
John
> So before the initial private (or any other) visiblity directive.
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Quite a few built in Delphi functions accept either integer or int64 as an
argument, I checked into inttostr for instance, in that case its asm code.
I have quite a few standard number processing routines, and up to now have
done one version for integer, and another for int64.
Is it feasible to
I have a calculator program, beyond certain size numbers it resorts to real
numbers, when sometimes I want exact integers.
eg 17! (17Factorial) is the highest I can get exactly (17*16*15 etc.), 18!
turns to a real number and I don't know if I am losing digits.
Another example of large numbers
Ha - does it still do that?
(D2007 here)
The instant compiler does not always find stuff. Such as TEdit for
instance. As long as normal compile works I can live with it
John
Anyone actually using XE yet?
We're using 2009 and still some buggy things in the IDE which would make
me consider
Yeah – what invite? I am waiting too.
John
Hi Richard
I'm still waiting for my invite - you can send it to my work address if that's
easier.
davi...@pegasus.org.nz
Cheers
David
On 30/09/10 16:14, Richard Vowles wrote:
Hi guys,
If all goes to plan, you should get some email from us
?I have a generalised routine for printing forms using Rave reports D2007.
I struck an interesting problem printing contents of a DBGrid showing
columns from a MSSQL database - I think its because the fields are null or a
type (eg binary) that ClientDataSets cannot display. Printing that colum
Is there a mailing list to get offers like this? I hadn’t heard of this or
the XE event until it came up here on the Delphi list.
Please add me to any such lists.
John
From: Richard Vowles
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:33 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] J
How much longer is upgrade from D2007 likely to be counted as an upgrade – any
ideas or hints?
John
Hi Paul,
Everyone who doesn't have a 2010 version of the product (Delphi/C++/RAD
Studio), if you are on 2009, 2007 or 2006 upgrade-wise or earlier (who have to
purchase new now).
On 18 Oct
Well thats nuts.
As a user of both Delphi 5 and D2007, you would have to be nuts to want to work
in D5 if you spend any time programming. It works, and quite well, but D2007
and later are so much nicer, and faster to do stuff.If you value your time
and are programming for anything return
I would like to find some system settings -
eg volume ID of a drive (which might be a network drive), and time zone. Any
suggestions?
Related - I recall seeing a unit somewhere years ago that showed a lot of
windows settings (eg Windir) I am not sure what it was and where, anyone know
of
Aw nuts you are just being a stirrer.
I actually use D5 and D2007 both a lot for work. So thats my experience – I
greatly prefer D2007.
For me a pro upgrade is $600-700 so thats also true.
The point about Windows updates are:
MS updates Windows still (mind you only XP SP3 onwards now) not be
John
From: Jolyon Smith
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:53 AM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Specials
Ø Aw nuts you are just being a stirrer.
Why is pointing out facts considered stirring?
I think the best answer to that is the one Josh K
I agree, something with real limitations but real usefulness. A Turbo
version would be great.
Possible ideas would be
1 – Executables only run on the PC with the Turbo licence. otherwise full
version but cheap
2 – Executables have a built in expiry date of 1 year from when compiled.
othe
?Maybe a related topic - How to make it easy to upgrade.
The main reasons I hear from others for not upgrading are (with my
experience in brackets):
1 - locked into 3rd party components with no new versions or expensive new
versions
[I luckily have steered clear of addon components, except fo
Would be very interested.
Was talking to Gary B (who runs the list) – he also has been thinking of
setting up a library where people can contribute code for benefit of others,
and pick up others tricks.I for instance do all my printing with Rave by
displaying the stuff on the screen in lab
?I don't think it would be hard to find topics -
For instance off the top of my head:
-it would be interesting to see the sort of programs others are doing
-Their favourite tips and tricks
-some IDE/OO/language education and explanations
-debugging techniques
-tools that others use and how they s
?Sort of similar config, except 32bit Windows 7 with 4GB Ram, and a VMware
XP with D2007 and 1GB allocated.
I find the performance of the VMWare virtual PC the worst aspect of it - the
XP virtual machine is really prone to triggering intense disk writes - which
looks like Windows XP starting sw
Is this IDEFixPack worth installing for D2007? This rings a bell – I might
have tried this or something like it when D2007 first came out, and it made
little difference. What really did make a huge difference was doubling my
RAM. It was obviously having to swap different parts of the IDE i
I have VMWare workstation with XP D2007 in the VM, and D2007 in the host
Windows 7 PC (yes 2 different licences too, although I generally can only run
one at once anyway).
More RAM seems to be the best thing to avoid the IDE going off into lala land.
Help – I avoid the D2007 standard help – th
I have never read up on best practices/sizes etc for creating program icons
and BMP files for buttons/images etc. Anyone got any good references to read
up further??
q1 – I have figured how to create a BMP with transparent background for bit
buttons etc so the image is not square. How do I
Forgive the duplicate post. This time not my fault – someone at Telstra is
no doubt sweating and swearing and cursing trying to get their email systems
going again including Paradise, so looks like they are sending some messages
twice.
John___
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?Cannot see how this is Embarcaderos fault.
I have seen Mail Marshall refuse an attachment with a .ZIP extension. I
then sent the ZIP file with a .DAT extension which also got blocked. I had
assumed a .DAT was the most general and innocuous and least blocked
extension until then (as it gene
Planning upgrading from D2007 to XE, but want to read up on issues I will
need to consider first to do with strings becoming Unicode by default. I
recall the release of D2009 came with good white papers explaining
ramifications, however I haven’t seen these as I haven’t upgraded. Asked
for
Thanks for the references, so I can answer most of the questions now.
Here is what I understand so far, if anyone has anything to add this will be
useful!
Extra question:
It looks like code like
for i:=1 to length(string1) do
begin
DoSomethingWithOneChar(string1[i]);
e
My main remaining question is the best way to handle code that up to now
looked like:
for i:=1 to length(string1) do
begin
DoSomethingWithOneChar(string1[i]);
end;
If I got the gist correctly, string1[i] is one unicode character, but
length(string1) is the number of cod
Behalf Of Colin Johnsun
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 14:31
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Upgrading to XE - Unicode strings questions
I won't answer everything but just on this one question:
On 23 November 2010 11:04, John Bird wrote:
Iterating over a string is for the purpose of doing something with each
individual character..whether it is a ‘A’ or a 'A' with a ^ (caret) on
top of it. When I said the number of bytes in a character varies I was not
meaning the number of bytes in a Char - I was meaning the total numbe
?I read in one of the references that UTF-32 was a more common standard on
Unix systems - which means I guess they have chosen the simplest format at
the trade off of using more space?
I think linux/Windows/MacOS use UTF-16 more commonly...
Anyway for the time being, as long as the data in stri
?IT work is expected to pick up over the next few months. Just checked out
the latest language surveys at
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Top ones are still Java, C, C++, PHP, C#, Python. Delphi at number 12.
Java at 18% currently score more than 3x C# at 5.7
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-preview.html
Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
examples are at least working - see a sneak peek video at the above address.
Says been tested with "Delphi 6.0, 7.0, 2005, 2006 and 2010."
Itemid=27
>>> making icons with GiMP.
>>>
>>> However there are some quite good free standalone Icon editors.
>>> Alister Christie
>>> Computers for People
>>> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
>>> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
>>&
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PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington
On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote:
>
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ
ew.html
>
> Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
> examples are at least workin
Test – sent two messages some hours earlier and neither appeared yet
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>>> making icons with GiMP.
>>>
>>> However there are some quite good free standalone Icon editors.
>>> Alister Christie
>>> Computers for People
>>> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
>>> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
>>&
ngton
On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote:
>
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ
ew.html
>
> Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
> examples are at least working - see a sneak peek video at the above
I sort of disagree - A common VCL is the ideal solution.
What makes Delphi a success on Windows is that it is Pascal and also close
enough to the Windows controls that it produces what looks like native Windows
applications, using the best of Windows XP/Vista/7 appearances.
If they do a Mac ve
Here is a reference I picked up on the Firefox list about a a security hole in
Web Sockets – and affects Java, Flash and HTML5. Research done by Adam Barth
of Google.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg04744.html
http://www.adambarth.com/experimental/websocket.pdf
https://bu
org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 11:08
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Web Sockets security hole
Here is a reference I picked up on the Firefox list about a a security hole in
Web Sockets – and affects Java, Flash and HTML5. Resear
?http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601089/detect-whether-current-windows-version-is-32-bit-or-64-bit
easiest way depends on whether Windows 7 or Server 2008, or older.
Simplest and most general over windows versions looks to be
ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable which is only set on 64 bit
se wouldn't... ;)
-Original Message-
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 13:47
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Help Detecting Windows Version
?http://stackoverfl
?As others said, I reckon best way depends on what type of comms is going
on.
If its a large amount of structured data a file can make sense.
If response times and two way communication is important then you need
something event driven, such as socket or TCP.
The filewatcher you are using is t
?Yes I find I have to run more than one browser to get every web site
working.
I take it to the extreme admittedly - I have Firefox V4 beta 8 pre-release
(nightly build), Chrome, Chrome V10 beta (Canary build), Opera v10, IE9
beta.
My internet banking was not working with Firefox V4 for a whil
?[Browsers contd]
10 seconds to page loaded is impressive when there are 269 tabs open in 20
groups, current group has 20+ tabs so all of those are pretty much loaded
too - so yes that is fast. 1 or 2 tabs is a lot faster again.
lots of tabs is useful if the browser handles it effortlessly, r
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