[DUG]: Nasty "feature" in HTML Help Workshop 1.21

2000-02-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
Watch this one because it could save you some grief. My understanding of a "Save All" command is that only files that have actually changed will be saved. This ain't so in MS HTML Help Workshop version 1.21. As it is possible to open quite easily (just with one double mouse click) in HTML Help Wo

RE: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread Chris Reynolds
ACT provide two extremely well documented Object Interfaces. The first is ACTOLE.Database which you can use to do pretty much anything with their database from your app. The second is ACTOLE.APPOBJECT which is used for controlling the behaviour of a loaded version of ACT. That is, your program can

Re: [DUG]: Streams

2000-02-16 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
> Im gonna send a stream of any type to an external unit. > Advise pse on how to figure out what the incoming stream format is going to > be, so I can take the relevant action on it in the external unit. > It could be a memorystream, filestream, string, Stringlist and so on. You don't need to kno

[DUG]: Delphi 5.01 files

2000-02-16 Thread Nic Wise
... should be up on the web server by the time you all get this. ftp://ftp.delphi.org.nz/delphi501upd I think. They are big tho - 20-30meg. Nic. -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it not a foolish man, said little Woo, who keeps all his chickens in his trousers? For at best, will

Re: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread Nic Wise
Hell, you could even _install_ Widnows 2000 Server. Min (ie, the point where it will not install) is 128meg - 256 recommended. Pro is 64/128. If you have less then 64, you _need_ to upgrade before installing - the installer will not run in less than 64. FYI :) Its worth it, IMO. I'm still to hav

RE: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread Nahum Wild
Well, I've got 256mb of ram so it should all be fine then. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Nic Wise > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:51 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject > > > Work

RE: [DUG]: Multi coloured StringGrid rows

2000-02-16 Thread Carl Reynolds
I understand that you're trying to paint individual cells by position.  With DefaultDrawing = False, using the OnDrawCell event you'd do something like:   procedure TSurrealGridForm.sgSurrealDrawCell(Sender: TObject; ACol, ARow: Integer;  Rect: TRect; State: TGridDrawState);begin  with Sende

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Nic Wise
No idea - we dont get the CD's for a while after release, assuming it _is_ a new SKU - and they are usually $30+freight+gst. Your better off downloading it if it fixes bugs your getting. I'll get it onto the local server ASAP. N -- Nic Wise - 021.676.418 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it not a foolish m

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Xander van der Merwe
Kerry wrote: > Apparently "Using object oriented programming languages helps make > large-scale systems easier to understand, simpler to debug, and faster to > update" and these features are required "to create robust, scalable > distributed Web applications" > > Who'd have guessed? Borland repr

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Nic Wise
Thanks. I REALLY have to kick some butt on the internal lists about this - its pathetic that I, beign an Inprise employee, hear about this from this (damn well informed) list before I hear about it internally. On the local server as soon as I can get it down there. ftp.delphi.org.nz Nic. -- Nic

Re: [DUG]: Pirateing

2000-02-16 Thread Nic Wise
> > IO.SYS > > MSDOS.SYS > > CONFIG.SYS > > Those files aren't remade if the user formats their hard disk. They are created > when an operating system is installed. > > If disks are ghosted then you may not be able to tell that the date has changed > in those files. good point. BTW, dont rely on

[DUG]: Multi coloured StringGrid rows

2000-02-16 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Hi all. I have a string grid that I want to display diff. row colours in. i.e. row 1 = red, row = blue, row 3= green etc.   I have been spending time figuring this ut, BUT the thing is, unless I specify a row, all the rows change colour. This is a problem as I dont always know WHAT the col

RE: [DUG]: VB 7 (change of subject)

2000-02-16 Thread Grant Black
> Apparently the next version (sometime in 2001) will change all that: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/language.asp > > - Inheritance > - Encapsulation > - Overloading > - Polymorphism > - Parameterized Constructors > > Apparently "Using object oriented programming languages helps ma

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Leigh Wanstead wrote: > How much for update CD availble in Auckland? Well I have 40% of Pro Update down if anyone wants a burn... supply me a blank cd or something and we can work it out ;P -- Mark Derricutt "People in prayer for me, everyone there for me, ICQ: 1934853

RE: [DUG]: Directory listing

2000-02-16 Thread Dennis Chuah
Novell drives may not have . and .. in the directory listing (I think it depends on a setting on the server). So, the answer is No, it is not safe. In fact, you cannot even guarantee that . and .. will be the first two entry - they may be elsewhere. Regards, Dennis. > -Original Message

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Neven MacEwan
Hiya I'm downloading Pro (26MB ) and ADOExpress (Unknown) right now If anyone want to post me a CDR media I'll burn them (I might even do Enterprise and Stand if there is any demand) Regards Neven N.K. MacEwan B.E. E&E --

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
>> http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20862,00.html > How much for update CD availble in Auckland? I'm pretty certain that we don't (and won't) have them here in NZ, sorry. >> TVisualBasic = Class(None); Apparently the next version (sometime in 2001) will change all that: http://msdn.

Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Leigh Wanstead
How much for update CD availble in Auckland? - Original Message - From: Donovan J. Edye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:09 PM Subject: [DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available > G'Day All, > > Thought you wo

[DUG]: Delphi 5 Update Available....

2000-02-16 Thread Donovan J. Edye
G'Day All, Thought you would be interested http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20862,00.html --Donovan Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au] Namadgi Systems, Delphi Developer Web: www.namsys.com.au E-Mail: [EM

[DUG]: Streams

2000-02-16 Thread Alistair George
Im gonna send a stream of any type to an external unit. Advise pse on how to figure out what the incoming stream format is going to be, so I can take the relevant action on it in the external unit. It could be a memorystream, filestream, string, Stringlist and so on. Tks, Alistair+ --

Re: [DUG]: Directory listing

2000-02-16 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
> The programmer then strips the first two items from the string list with the > assumption being that these will always be '.' and '..' directories. > Safe assumption? I'm not sure that it is... Better to check for filenames of '.' or '..' I don't know that there's a guarentee that these are f

Re: [DUG]: Directory listing

2000-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why not be safe and check they are then remove them? --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

RE: [DUG]: Pirateing

2000-02-16 Thread patrick . dunford
Quoting Alistair George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You can read the HDD Volume Serial Number - see the function > > GetVolumeInformation for details. As far as I'm aware, this number will > > always change if you reformat a disk. I used to use this number for > > protecting software, but I disco

[DUG]: Directory listing

2000-02-16 Thread Grant Black
I noticed a bit of code recently that returns a list of files in a directory using FindFirst ... FindNext procedures. The programmer then strips the first two items from the string list with the assumption being that these will always be '.' and '..' directories. Safe assumption? (I will pr

[DUG]: RE: AVI component - 2

2000-02-16 Thread Dennis Chuah
> Follow-up of my previous question this morning: > > Yes, obviously I can use TAnimate, but the point is that it > doesn't seem > to load an AVI file with a size of 1,059 Kbytes. > Is there a limit (apparently there is)? The limit is in the number of colours, not size. > Making it a GIF fil

[DUG]: AVI component - 2

2000-02-16 Thread John Christenhusz
Hi all, Follow-up of my previous question this morning: Yes, obviously I can use TAnimate, but the point is that it doesn't seem to load an AVI file with a size of 1,059 Kbytes. Is there a limit (apparently there is)? Making it a GIF file reduces the resolution dramatically and is no good alter

Re: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread Nic Wise
Works fine for me, along with Java, Visibroker, JBuilder 3 and "for Solaris", etc etc etc. Get a min of 128 meg RAM tho. 64 will NOT cut it. Nic. - Original Message - From: "Nahum Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, Febr

[DUG]: Error: U1158....

2000-02-16 Thread Donovan J. Edye
G'Day All, Env: NT4 WKS SP4, IE5, D5 Ent My build fails with Internal Error: U1158 on a line in my uses clause when building a package. The help says this should never happen... Borland search has nada, Deja has 3 people with the same problem and no solution, Delphi Bug List has nada. Anybod

RE: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread Nahum Wild
Anybody know of any issues with running Delphi5 under Win2000? I figure that its got to be more stable than my current Win98 setup that every since it heard of Win2000 has started crashing lots! Thanks, Nahum --- New

[DUG]: RE: AVI component

2000-02-16 Thread Dennis Chuah
You can use TAnimate but it only supports 16 colours. The alternative is to use TMediaPlayer. Regards, Dennis. > -Original Message- > From: John Christenhusz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 11:53 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: AVI comp

[DUG]: AVI component

2000-02-16 Thread John Christenhusz
Hi folks, Has anybody got an AVI component for me or can point me to where to get one? Thanks very much. John Christenhusz POSTEC DATA SYSTEMS Ltd. PO Box 302-230 Auckland, New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 09-415.8803 Fax: 09-415.9042 application/ms-tnef

[DUG]: test - please ignote

2000-02-16 Thread asood
test - please ignore --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz

[DUG]: OwnerDrawing a Listview

2000-02-16 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Hi all. I have a list view that I am wanting to ownerdraw. (p.s. its in report mode) I have been able to do this, BUT the text of the items is not being drawn in the right place. i.e. the text is always drawn on the rect.left rect.top, which is where I am am drawingBUT the RECT is the

Re: [DUG]: loading a DCU

2000-02-16 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
> blast! I thought as much. Let's see how friendly the folk at Rational are... I know people who have managed to get the source code to that, so don't give up if they say no first time around! Cheers, Kerry Sainsbury Inprise/Borland New Zealand --

Re: [DUG]: loading a DCU

2000-02-16 Thread phillip . middlemiss
blast! I thought as much. Let's see how friendly the folk at Rational are... Phil. Aaron Scott-Boddendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/02/2000 14:08:22 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:(bcc: Phillip Middlemiss/NZ Forest R

Re: [DUG]: loading a DCU

2000-02-16 Thread Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
> I have been given a DCU file (no source) that I think was compiled with Delphi > 2. When I try to refer to that unit in the uses clause, I get a compiler error > that it can't find the .pas file. Is this because it's delphi 2 compiled? or am > I missing something basic and obvious here? DCU fil

[DUG]: pirateing again

2000-02-16 Thread Alistair George
There is a hidden file detlog.txt which reports on system check done during the installation which appears to be best. Alistair+ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Websi

[DUG]: loading a DCU

2000-02-16 Thread phillip . middlemiss
Hi, I have been given a DCU file (no source) that I think was compiled with Delphi 2. When I try to refer to that unit in the uses clause, I get a compiler error that it can't find the .pas file. Is this because it's delphi 2 compiled? or am I missing something basic and obvious here? TIA Phil

Re: [DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread Kerry Sainsbury
Hi Ian, I don't know much about integration with ACT, apart from the fact that they do provide a ginormous API. There's more information at http://www.symantec.com/act01.html/sdk/index.html Cheers, Kerry Sainsbury Inprise/Borland New Zealand - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: [DUG]: converting a Visual C DLL to Delphi

2000-02-16 Thread phillip . middlemiss
Dennis Chuah said: >>You will most probably need to use cdecl. I am not sure if the name >>mangling algorithm that Delphi uses is the same as C++. Brilliant! It works! I spent about an hour messing with it but couldn't get it working, then replaced all the stdcall with cdecl and it goes beauti

RE: [DUG]: Pirateing

2000-02-16 Thread Alistair George
> You can read the HDD Volume Serial Number - see the function > GetVolumeInformation for details. As far as I'm aware, this number will > always change if you reformat a disk. I used to use this number for > protecting software, but I discovered that if you buy a batch of computers > there is a

[DUG]: ACTOLE Dataobject

2000-02-16 Thread I_J_Fear
I am looking at using the Act contactmanager in conjunction with a progam and would like to find some components to speed up the process if this were possible if not any hints would be a great help Ian Ian Fear 1427 Te Kopia rd RD 1 Rotorua New Zealand Phone 64 7 333 1548 Fax 64 7 333 2548 mob

RE: [DUG]: String -> Char

2000-02-16 Thread Stephen Barker
> -Original Message- > From: gajo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2000 23:29 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: String -> Char > > > I have a string, for example "test".. > Now I want to take the t letter out and convert it to number..

Re: [DUG]: String -> Char

2000-02-16 Thread willie
The COPY function is useful for extracting parts of strings, combine this with the POS (if the position, in the string, of the letter being changed is not constant) and you can do it. Both are explained in the Delphi on-line help There's bound to be more elegant ways. - Original Mes

[DUG]: Bitmaps in TP7

2000-02-16 Thread gajo
Anyone knows how can I write a TP7 program that opens a BMP or other graphical file (in DOS) and displays it on the screen? Thanks, Gajo --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[DUG]: String -> Char

2000-02-16 Thread gajo
I have a string, for example "test".. Now I want to take the t letter out and convert it to number.. But to do this I have to convert that t string to char.. how can I do this? And how can I convert a char to string? Gajo --

RE: [DUG]: Pirateing

2000-02-16 Thread Tom Munro Glass
You can read the HDD Volume Serial Number - see the function GetVolumeInformation for details. As far as I'm aware, this number will always change if you reformat a disk. I used to use this number for protecting software, but I discovered that if you buy a batch of computers there is a good chance