RE: Re: [DUG] Vista Summary Link

2007-04-19 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] HI all, I've linked some of these articles on the DUG website: http://www.delphi.org.nz cheers Gary At 13:04 on 20/04/2007 you wrote >To : delphi@delphi.org.nz >CC : >From: Alister Christie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content Type: text/plain >Attached: > >There is a bunch of stuff - try

Re: [DUG] Memo files Lines

2007-04-19 Thread Todd Martin
You'd probably be better off to use a non-visual object (TStringList) to do this, since it sounds like you don't need to see the G-Code. see TStringList.LoadFromFile() Todd. Marshland Engineering wrote: Hi I'm just starting with Delphi. I need to read a text file (G-Code for CNC) and write

RE: [DUG] Memo files Lines

2007-04-19 Thread Trevor Jones
Memo.Lines.Count? _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marshland Engineering Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 4:41 p.m. To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: [DUG] Memo files Lines Hi I'm just starting with Delphi. I need to read a text file (G-Code for CNC)

[DUG] Memo files Lines

2007-04-19 Thread Marshland Engineering
Hi I'm just starting with Delphi. I need to read a text file (G-Code for CNC) and write a conversion process to a produce a different text file format. I can read the file into a memo but I need to know how many lines I have read to process it. I can count them if there is an end of file mar

Re: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Robert martin
Hi Jeremy Yeah we already do some of the stuff you are talking about. However our actual issue is with the standard button showing a different background colour to the flat button mode. in themed mode. In vista and probably XP if your style is right, changing modes (flat v normal) produces a

Re: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Robert martin
Thanks David Thats the one I was thinking of ! Will have a look at their site. Our app is already full of controls but there are some we are not especially happy with. Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd David Br

RE: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread David Brennan
Rob, The component everyone talks about which is escaping you is probably Developer Express. They have all sorts of controls and a PageControl which can emulate Microsoft's various vogue styles (eg Office 11, etc) is included in their editor suite. We use the Developer Express controls and in gen

Re: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Jeremy North
Hi, OK I haven't really been following this thread but... How about: TTabControl and set TabVisible on the pagecontrol pages to False. Set the style of the pagecontrol to Buttons (or FlatButtons) - which reduces the border. or TTabSet and parent your "pages" on a Panel when the Tab has been c

Re: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Robert martin
Hi No you cant. You get a nice white border around your grey (btnFace) panel. Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Rohit Gupta wrote: As mentioned before, cant you solve it by putting a panel on each tab of the pa

Re: [DUG] Looking for success stories - also Auckland Delphi user group for April

2007-04-19 Thread Rohit Gupta
Hi, Is there going to only 4 of us ? Richard Vowles wrote: Hi guys, If you have an application written in *one* or more Codegear products and could like to have it listed on our web site (along with your logo, contact information, etc) please let me know. I'm looking at a formal mechanism

Re: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Rohit Gupta
As mentioned before, cant you solve it by putting a panel on each tab of the pagecontrol ? Robert martin wrote: Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Hi We have been looking further at our problems with TPageControl in

Re: [DUG] Vista Summary Link

2007-04-19 Thread Alister Christie
There is a bunch of stuff - try for instance http://dn.codegear.com/search?q=vista Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Alan Rose wrote: I can see there are going to be a lot more Vista ques

RE: [DUG] Vista Summary Link

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Rose
Oops here is a more friendlier link with the i.ppt appended :) http://bdntv.borland.com/pix/fhaglund/VistaUACandDelphi/VistaUACandDelph i.ppt If it happens again paste this bdntv.borland.com/pix/fhaglund/VistaUACandDelphi/VistaUACandDelphi.ppt > > http://bdntv.borland.com/pix/fhaglund/VistaUACa

[DUG] Vista Summary Link

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Rose
I can see there are going to be a lot more Vista questions coming up on this NG and its hard to find good Delphi documentation on these topics. Here's a link I found yesterday which gives a nice summary of issues that I thought was worth sharing. Note it's a 4mb PowerPoint doc http://bdntv.borland

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Rose
I was suspecting our spam filters on our server because I get the occasional DUG message in my spam folder. Kind of takes that quick interactive aspect away when there are huge delays. If its not the news group then I'll have to solve it here another day. Thanks to Phil Scadden for your suggestio

Re: [DUG] How to find work?

2007-04-19 Thread Nick
;-) yes... go compete with Indians that only charge $2 an hour Granted, you would do a far better job than them, have much better communication and not bail out on a job like they do - but must people don't look at that, they look at the price, get burned and never come back. Traci P Sumpter

RE: [DUG] How to find work?

2007-04-19 Thread Traci P Sumpter
http://www.rentacoder.com/ _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 11:56 a.m. To: DUG Subject: [DUG] How to find work? Hi guys I'm looking for Delphi or PHP contract work (working remotely). Can anybody give me a few pointe

[DUG] How to find work?

2007-04-19 Thread John
Hi guys I'm looking for Delphi or PHP contract work (working remotely). Can anybody give me a few pointers of how to find work at all? Cheers John ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.or

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Nope, I am in that boat too Alan. Takes ages for my posts to arrive too -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Rose Sent: 20 April 2007 11:31 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista Yeah, I a

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Rose
Yeah, I asked this question back on the 12/4 as I to found this entry was causing my app to run slow. I believe Iv'e used this tool as well in the past, but never again :) FWIW am I the only one who has to wait up to ten minutes to see my post appear. Its only this newsgroup that this happens to m

Re: [DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Nick
Hi Robert, I use the TMS component set and it's more then worth it's price, haven't had a problem with it in Vista, colors show up fine but then I don't use any DBEdits. Jedi VCL the other component set your thinking about? Robert martin wrote: Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03

Re: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Nick
As per my last email. Just did a google search and pulled up this http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2004/04/28/121871.aspx Which makes sense, as I was using the simple user compatibility tool to check my app with last week, it must of stuck some values in the registry (in that location) an

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Rose
Is there an entry for x.exe under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 11:07 a.m. > To: NZ Borland Develope

[DUG] Components / PageControl

2007-04-19 Thread Robert martin
Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd Hi We have been looking further at our problems with TPageControl in Vista. Originally we thought we could fix the problem (or TDBEdits not being the same colour as the page by adding

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Jason Saggers
It probably the Data Execution Protection, and it's probably tagged that file as doing something nasty.. e.g. in a previous install with a bugged version maybe. This should be able to be reset through config, but im unable to find the options at present. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

Re: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Nick
Success :-) I combed the registry looking for my filename and found a folder in here (named after my program filename) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options I simply renamed the folder to and ran my program as normal and it worked fine.

Re: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Nick
Nope nothing silly, I just redid my installer script so it puts a - on the end of the file name, and that works fine so it seems Windows has said at some stage - this program called 'x.exe' do something to. I am guessing that if I install this on another Vista pc it will be fine. Wonder how I

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Eggleton
Matt Comb wrote on Friday, 20 April 2007 10:52 a.m.: > Is your exe by any chance called: > > Trojan.exe > Explorer.exe > > or anything else that may cause XP to hurl ;) I was thinking that too. A long time ago (the Windows 95 days) Windows used to do some application compatibility stuff based on

RE: [DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Matt Comb
Is your exe by any chance called: Trojan.exe Explorer.exe or anything else that may cause XP to hurl ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 10:49 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [

[DUG] Weird behavior in Vista

2007-04-19 Thread Nick
Got this app that I just installed in Vista and noticed something weird. If I open the task manager, then open my application I see that it starts off with using 40mb of ram, then if I close it right away, it closes on screen, but in the task manager it stays open and starts using all the cpu.