[DUG] Delphi 7 ADO - Autorefresh of Dataset on Changes by Other Users

2011-03-10 Thread Eric A
I have aMicrosoft SQL Server database which has two automatic processes as "users" and one operator-driven application. On occasions the system operator needs to delete a record and the operator's DBGrid display needs to be updated when one of the other process changes a field value in a reco

Re: [DUG] Christchurch Members

2011-02-25 Thread Eric A
We're OK out here south of Lincoln. Some additional house and property damage and more clean-up work to do. Power restored on Wednesday but since we're rural we have our own water well and sewage system which are still functional. Spare room here if required. Eric. ERIC APPERLEY & ASSOCIAT

Re: [DUG] Icon

2010-07-21 Thread Eric A
I use Paint .NET but prefer the GIMP (Windows) for graphics manipulation (I think that does the conversion too?) Eric > From: johnkb...@paradise.net.nz > To: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:46:41 +1200 > Subject: Re: [DUG] Icon > > I think it disappeared in later Delphi, >

[DUG] Virtual Box - Serial Port Support

2010-03-28 Thread Eric A
A while ago someone asked about serial port support under virtual machines. VirtualBox in a recent release added serial port support: Serial Port Settings VirtualBox allows up to two serial ports to be added to virtual machines using the Serial Port settings screen: A virtual ser

Re: [DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

2010-01-17 Thread Eric A
1. Still maintaining Delphi code? Yes 2. Started a new Delphi project in the last year? A suite of utility and radio communications tool programs for a client. Google Earth interfaces [I find that the amount of code one has to write for SQL server apps in Delphi is substantially less th

Re: [DUG] Delphi Books

2010-01-04 Thread Eric A
Paul. If you're located in Christchurch I'll happily take those off your hands. Eric. > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:35:34 +1300 > From: paul.a.nor...@gmail.com > To: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Books > > Dear Jeremy, > > I've got Delphi 3,4, 6 in Marco Cantu's Masteri

Re: [DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in Chch?

2009-10-14 Thread Eric A
John, I have also been through the same era and agree. They should agressively pursue the cross-platform verison but make a decent job of it this time. Eric From: johnkb...@paradise.net.nz To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:56:47 +1300 Subject: Re: [DUG] Presentation

Re: [DUG] Upgrade considerations

2009-09-24 Thread Eric A
I'm a previous user of VMWARE and have been using Virtual Box for a while. I'm pretty happy with Virtual Box. Reports from the Client environment I'm working in is that the performance of the "free" VMWARE versions are crippled (as expected from a commercial standpoint). So if you are exp

Re: [DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome!

2009-05-29 Thread Eric A
What VM? VirtualBox? > From: trev...@ihug.co.nz > To: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:37:24 +1200 > Subject: [DUG] D2009 + Windows 7: awesome! > > Hi all, > I may be preaching to the choir here, but hey > > I've been given a new project which is essentially an update o

Re: [DUG] [Off topic] Senior developer

2009-05-12 Thread Eric A
See the article by Richard Gabriel "Worse is better" - http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html Gabriel himself has argued both sides of the "worse is better" concept. His counter argument : http://dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf Eric > From: johnkb...@paradise.net.nz

Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

2009-03-31 Thread Eric A
Hiow about a PDP-8 with core memory... > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:49:09 +1100 > From: jeremy.no...@gmail.com > To: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Subject: Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC > > Our first PC was a Vic-20. I was about 9 or 10 when we got it. I > converted a snake game engine into a two pla

Re: [DUG] Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal for Dos free

2009-03-30 Thread Eric A
I haven't tried this but I'd imagine that Async Pro would handle the serial port pins OK? > From: lei...@softtech.co.nz > To: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:24:01 +1300 > Subject: [DUG] Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal for Dos free > > Good morning, > > Is it possible to get/dow

Re: [DUG] Indy Sockets - How to Receive Asynchronously

2008-12-05 Thread Eric A
EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: Eric A To: Delphi UsersGroup Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [DUG] Indy Sockets - How to Receive Asynchronously >Paul, > >I'll take a look at that site. Are you using ICS extensively? Yes,

Re: [DUG] Indy Sockets - How to Receive Asynchronously

2008-12-03 Thread Eric A
sages using the above method. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Eric A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kyley, No program design yet. Questions: 1) Inside the thread - do I have to implement a timer event to periodically check the buffer (since there's no "data received" event

Re: [DUG] Indy Sockets - How to Receive Asynchronously

2008-12-03 Thread Eric A
y work blocking or non blocking. check www.overbyte.be Paul - Original Message - From: Eric A To: Delphi UsersGroup Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:55 PM Subject: [DUG] Indy Sockets - How to Receive Asynchronously I have a situation where I need to communicate with a commun

[DUG] Indy Sockets - How to Receive Asynchronously

2008-12-03 Thread Eric A
I have a situation where I need to communicate with a communications server using Indy TCP sockets. After sending the command the server returns an "OK" response with a second or two to acknowledge the acceptance of the command, however the reponse from the end device (returned via the serv

[DUG] CRC-CC!TT 16

2008-10-28 Thread Eric A
I'm looking for code or an understandable algorithm for the CRC-CCITT(16) routine. There's a bunch of code on the net but most don't do it with a table and most of it is in 'C' (not my cup of tea...) I'd prefer a table-based routine if possible for simplicity and speed. Could be either pasca

[DUG] Creating KML Files in Delphi for Google Earth

2008-09-01 Thread Eric A
I need to create a Google Earth kml file from a database of coordinates. I'm looking for some simple Delphi code (either the code or a link to a site with code) to create the kml file. I did this some time ago using .NET using the XML classes in the .ENT framework but I'd prefer to go with De

Re: [DUG] Delphi ADO Components with MS SQL 2005

2008-08-21 Thread Eric A
ECTED] On Behalf Of Eric A Sent: Friday, 22 August 2008 10:38 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi ADO Components with MS SQL 2005 I'd like to use Delphi 7 (Delphi 2007 second choice) with SQL Server 2005. Initially this will be just for d

Re: [DUG] Delphi ADO Components with MS SQL 2005

2008-08-21 Thread Eric A
I'd like to use Delphi 7 (Delphi 2007 second choice) with SQL Server 2005. Initially this will be just for development using the version installed with Visual Studio 2005 Professional. I've previously used the Delphi ADO connection objects etc very successfully with MS SQL 2000 but I can't s

Re: [DUG] Email Files - is delphi dead?

2008-07-23 Thread Eric A
Looking at applications in C# or other Visual Studio languages - you'd be really struggling to develop database code (SQL Server et al) as efficiently as you can with Delphi. It appears that Microsoft still haven't learned much from Borland in respect of providing a productive environment for

RE: [DUG] Developers not upgrading

2008-05-10 Thread Eric A
Agreed on the missing Glyphs for TTable and TQuery - what's the fix for that? Also, the latest 2007 updates still don't implement the fix for the missing property editors . New installs shouldn't have to go through the rigmarole to fix it! Eric > Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:04:43 +1200 > From:

RE: [DUG] D2007 Disappearing Glyphs on BDE Datasets Cpts

2007-10-17 Thread Eric A
t; Software Engineer > > phone +64 03 377 0495 > fax +64 03 377 0496 > web www.chreos.com > > Wild Software Ltd > > > > Eric A wrote: > > In a Delphi 2007 project, recently created, the glyphs on the BDE > > dataset components (TTable, TQuery) disappear

[DUG] D2007 Disappearing Glyphs on BDE Datasets Cpts

2007-10-17 Thread Eric A
In a Delphi 2007 project, recently created, the glyphs on the BDE dataset components (TTable, TQuery) disappear after a while from the design time components in the Data Module. I can place a new dataset component on the form and the Glyph initially appears but after a while (haven't figured o

[DUG] Rad Studio Criticism

2007-10-07 Thread Eric A
Jeremy, Some thoughts as to why CodeGear aren't actively embracing .NET CF ... 1) I used Visual Studio and the Compact Framework (versions 1 and 2 with all their service pack incarnations!) extensively last year and I'd have to say that the .NET Compact Framework is not a great dev

RE: [DUG] D2007 - TDBLookupComboBox and TDBLookupListBox - missing combos in properties

2007-10-02 Thread Eric A
007 17:37:15 +1200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Subject: Re: [DUG] D2007 - TDBLookupComboBox and TDBLookupListBox - missing > combos in properties > > Eric, > > in the Object Inspector > Right Click and > Select View > Select All >

[DUG] D2007 - TDBLookupComboBox and TDBLookupListBox - missing combos in properties

2007-10-02 Thread Eric A
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong but, for example after placing a TDBLookupComboBox on the form, the combo boxes within the properties in the object inspector have "disappeared" for the properties of "KeyField" and "ListField". Strangely enough the combo box for "DataField" still exists

[DUG] DBISAM v2 Driver for Delphi 7

2007-04-09 Thread Eric A
Has anyone managed to convert the version 2 DBISAM table drivers to Delphi 7? I need to access a version 2 DBISAM database in read-only mode but the only drivers for available for Delphi 7 appear to be Version 3 and 4 which won't read version 2. Version 2 drivers are available from ElevateSof