[DUG] How to create a highlighted presentation

2009-07-15 Thread PDS - John
Hi all TradeMe has a nice presentation in case you enlarge a photo; background vague and photo clearly visible. I had a look at their source but can't really figure out how they do this. Has anybody an idea how to achieve this presentation? John C

Re: [DUG] How to create a highlighted presentation

2009-07-15 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hi John, This is done in Javascript (one of the many ways I would assume) - I had it setup for a website, let me dig out the code... Cheers, Pieter - Original Message - From: PDS - John To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:50 PM

Re: [DUG] How to create a highlighted presentation

2009-07-15 Thread David Moorhouse
Use the Firefox Web Developer extension to View Generated Source HTH D On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:50:24 +1200, you wrote: Hi all TradeMe has a nice presentation in case you enlarge a photo; background vague and photo clearly visible. I had a look at their source but can't really figure out

[DUG] Just for the odd job.

2009-07-15 Thread Marshland Engineering
I have been using Delphi 4 for the few projects I have. Embarcadero Technologies are a offering 2 for 1 purchase. Why is Delphi 2009 - Professional Upgrade and Delphi 2007 for Win32 R2 Professional Upgrade both the same price. Is it worth the upgrade. From what I understand 2007 and 2009

Re: [DUG] Just for the odd job.

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Ingham
Marshland Engineering wrote: I have been using Delphi 4 for the few projects I have. Embarcadero Technologies are a offering 2 for 1 purchase. Why is Delphi 2009 – Professional Upgrade and Delphi 2007 for Win32 R2 Professional Upgrade both the same price. Is it worth the upgrade.

Re: [DUG] How to create a highlighted presentation

2009-07-15 Thread Gary T. Benner
[Reply] John, A simple tutorial to help understand what's going on. Web applications have three levels of functionality: 1. Content - produced form the web server as HTML,images etc, and this may be static ( ie form a file ) or generated from your script code ( PHP,ASP etc) or Delphi ISAPI

Re: [DUG] Just for the odd job.

2009-07-15 Thread Dennis Chuah
I don't belief it ... there are actually people still using Delphi 4. It has to be the next most buggy version of Delphi apart from 8. You can even get different EXEs just by compiling at different times of the day! My advise then would be for you to upgrade, even if it is just to get a more

Re: [DUG] How to create a highlighted presentation

2009-07-15 Thread Neven MacEwan
John Javascript Lightbox (or its many variants) but thats dated now, look at the jquery based nyromodal which is way cool http://nyromodal.nyrodev.com/ Once you start with jquery you'll never stop HTH Neven Hi all TradeMe has a nice presentation in case you enlarge a photo; background

Re: [DUG] Just for the odd job.

2009-07-15 Thread Paul A Norman
Dear Wallace, The incompatability issues can be significant especially on components. Many component writers do not even exist in the field anymore to update thier code to new D versions. For one project alone I have maintained a legacy machine runnig Delphi 4 The time cost of trying to