Re: [DUG] Create new table from existing one.

Wallace Is their any overriding reason you are using dBase tables? Its a bit dated? If I was doing a single user app, that didn't interact with an external report writer etc, I'd use kbmMemtable otherwise its difficult to go past MS SQL free versions (or Firebird) which being SQL servers give y

[DUG] Create new table from existing one.

I am using Dbase tables and when I create a new table from and existing one, the real number fields are being created as equivalent to integers. I was using TDBF from Sourceforge, so I reverted back to Delphi's own tables and I have exactly the same problem. Using the Database desktop with the

Re: [DUG]: create

>Say I want to create the new panel in my current code, but not on the same form... >Q is; how to create and free such a beast so that it is independent of the >current mainform. It needs to be a 640x480 panel which I will actually >locate off the screen. >Does it have to me made showmodal?? The

[DUG]: create

Great Aaron, thanks for enlightening information. Now more.. Say I want to create the new panel in my current code, but not on the same form... Q is; how to create and free such a beast so that it is independent of the current mainform. It needs to be a 640x480 panel which I will actually

RE: [DUG]: create

>Hash: SHA1 > >Does it have to do also whether the panel is visible i.e. does the owner >have to be the form for the panel to be visible on that form? No, that's the Parent property. Check out Owner and Parent in the help. Cheers, Carl Reynolds Ph: +64-9-4154790 CJN Techno

Re: [DUG]: create

>Does it have to do also whether the panel is visible i.e. does the owner >have to be the form for the panel to be visible on that form? No the Parent property is used for display purposes. The owner is used for resource management. -- Aaron Scott-Boddendijk Jump Productions (07) 838-3371 Voic

Re: [DUG]: create

Heres an EasySqueezy one for someone: >What is the difference between > panel:=tpanel.Create(owner); >and > panel:=tpanel.Create(self); When you're in a method a self reference is available to the instance of the object this method belongs to... On Objects derived from TComponent (IE all contr

RE: [DUG]: create

Reynolds > Sent: Monday, 29 March 1999 08:57 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: create > > > >What is the difference between > > panel:=tpanel.Create(owner); > >and > > panel:=tpanel.Create(self); snp ; -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

RE: [DUG]: create

>What is the difference between > panel:=tpanel.Create(owner); >and > panel:=tpanel.Create(self); The owner is the object, if any, that will free your panel automatically when its free'd itself (often when the application ends), so you don't have to. If you free it explicitly then it doesn't m

[DUG]: create

Heres an EasySqueezy one for someone: What is the difference between panel:=tpanel.Create(owner); and panel:=tpanel.Create(self); Its a very rudimentary question, but I dont know! Normally I use self, but in this case I want to make a panel, which is like a modal construct, or separate from t