RE: Re[3]: [DUG]: UNC Path Names

2001-11-15 Thread Patrick Dunford
Yes, occasionally. This seems to happen if your message body contains any kind of program code, particularly anything that looks like VBScript. It is incidentally interesting that UUencoded attachments may defeat some types of virus scanners. = Patrick Dunford

RE: [DUG]: mis using pointers

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
click on the row I can respond to the event by fetching that record from the dataset. = Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ http://www.trainweb.org/ferrymead/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [DUG]: Actions, shortcuts and some keyboards misbehave

2001-11-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
Yes it was D5 and NT4 Workstation (Christchurch Polytech Institute of Technology) = Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ http://www.trainweb.org/ferrymead/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

RE: [DUG]: Actions, shortcuts and some keyboards misbehave

2001-11-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
. = Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ http://www.trainweb.org/ferrymead/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alex Kouznetsov > Sent: Monday, 12 November 2001 12:35 > To: Multiple recipients

RE: [DUG]: Const

2001-11-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
ler directive is in effect, typed constants cannot change value at runtime; they are, in effect, read-only variables. ===== Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ http://www.trainweb.org/ferrymead/ > -Original Message- > Fro

RE: [DUG]: Sending BDE dataset to Access Database

2001-11-01 Thread Patrick Dunford
ADO components are made by a lot of companies. Over here is a good place to look: http://www.kylecordes.com/bag/index.html   If you are really keen you could write a lot of OLE calls to ADO. It pays to do this as early binding for speed.   = Patrick Dunford

RE: [DUG]: Ofttopic - Turbo Pascal - Delphi console apps

2001-10-31 Thread Patrick Dunford
Here's another conundrum   If Delphi 1 is used to compile a TP project as a console app is that app able to run in a Dos window, or in Dos full stop, without Windows?   = Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ http://www.trainwe

RE: [DUG]: Emailing Invoices

2001-10-24 Thread Patrick Dunford
http://www.est.hi-ho.ne.jp/takeshi_kanno/powerpdf/index.html > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of vss > Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 16:03 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Emailing Invoices > > > Hi. Well

RE: [DUG]: PDF Components

2001-10-24 Thread Patrick Dunford
The latest version 0.9 (available on the Delphi Super Page) adds a few more basic functionalities (like text alignment) but you would basically have to simulate the grouping in code. When I did my grouped reports in QR, I used one query for both the group header and the detail, which made it rela

RE: [DUG]: PDF Components

2001-10-24 Thread Patrick Dunford
I would assume they are still developing it, those are features I would like to see as well as the ability to align text. Of course with the full source available there is nothing to stop anyone from developing those features themselves... However you would not require smart SQL scripts, you just

RE: [DUG]: equiv in Delphi

2001-10-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
It's an OLE object reference Delphi equiv = GetOleObject MSDN Home > MSDN Library > Visual Basic > Reference > Visual Basic for Applications Reference GetObject Function See AlsoExampleSpecifics Returns a reference to an object provided by an ActiveX component. Syntax GetObje

RE: [DUG]: PDF Components

2001-10-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
I think it looks quite good, though of course it is not as fully featured as Quickreport. All the example programs compiled and worked in D3 Std. I was surprised to have it installed without problems in D5 Std which gives it a reporting capability. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

RE: [DUG]: Emailing Invoices

2001-10-22 Thread Patrick Dunford
The biggest problem with HTML is printing, unless the CSS2 printing standards are used. Far better to use PDF. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nic WiseSent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 15:14To: Multiple recipients of list delphi

RE: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
- > > From: "Steve Galyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:47 AM > > Subject: Re: [DUG]: TNMSMTP > > > > > > > Hi Patrick > > > > > > R

RE: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
Since the password is encrypted, you can't use it without knowing how to decrypt it. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Martin > Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 10:12 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]

RE: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
> 2000 (both Professional and Advanced Server), yet I run other software > > incorporating the same component on a few hundred other machines around > the > > country without this kind of problem; however the existing > version of the > > software does not run under MDAC 2.6 becau

RE: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
This appears to be only Outlook Express accounts, is that what you wanted? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Martin > Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 10:12 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

RE: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
e does not run under MDAC 2.6 because of the ADO bug, so I have not > exposed widely to Win 2000 before. > > Regards > Steve Galyer > > > - Original Message - > From: "Patrick Dunford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list delp

RE: [DUG]: TNMSMTP

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
or set to Local Area Network instead > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Nello Sestini > Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2001 20:37 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: TNMSMTP > > > take a look at: > > settings | con

RE: [DUG]: Really simple question

2001-10-15 Thread Patrick Dunford
By the way, the reply that he got appears to come from the Borland newsgroups. You should be able to find them on your ISP's server with names starting with borland > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Martin > Sent: Tuesday, 16

RE: [DUG]: Renaming Folders in Windows

2001-10-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
Double backslash is needed in C style strings since the backslash acts as an escape (for example \n is the carriage return character). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of David O'Brien > Sent: Monday, 15 October 2001 16:46 > To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: Application.createform Vs. frm:=TForm.create

2001-10-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
Application.CreateForm is a method of TApplication that calls the constructor (TForm.Create) of the form specified. The Application becomes the form's owner. Note: By default the form created by the first call to CreateForm in a project becomes the application’s main form. If you did not call Ap

RE: [DUG]: Renaming Folders in Windows

2001-10-14 Thread Patrick Dunford
ShFileOperation > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of David O'Brien > Sent: Monday, 15 October 2001 14:58 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: Renaming Folders in Windows > > > Is there a simple function to do this? I

[DUG]: Contracting issues - Comments please

2001-10-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
nisation's internal databases, huh?) and with it being the native database format for VB/VC it makes more sense to go down this path than to stick with Delphi, if we can't get anyone to handle the Delphi work.   ============ Patrick Dunford http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/

RE: [DUG]: Unconditional Shutdown

2001-10-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
Try sending it WM_ENDSESSION, this is the message Windows sends to apps when it wants to shut down. If you had a process handle, you could call TerminateProcess > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of vss > Sent: Friday, 12 October 2001 16:

RE: [DUG]: Windows Help macros (OT)

2001-10-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
I'm using but I entered it & works! > > Cheers, > Ross. > > Patrick Dunford wrote: > > >If you want to open a URL just use ExecFile. > > > >We use this for ex

RE: [DUG]: Windows Help macros (OT)

2001-10-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
If you want to open a URL just use ExecFile. We use this for executing hyperlinks and it works just fine e.g. !ExecFile(http://www.delphi.org.nz/) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2001 18:01

RE: [DUG]: Pascal / Delphi for Mac ????

2001-10-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
There are some C compilers around that work with both platforms, I understand > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of vss > Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2001 14:52 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Pascal / Delphi

RE: [DUG]: MDI

2001-10-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
Is it impractical to use a normal form parented onto a panel? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MartinSent: Tuesday, 9 October 2001 17:27To: Multiple recipients of list delphiSubject: [DUG]: MDI We have an MDI app where

RE: [DUG]: Best way to load a DLL

2001-10-07 Thread Patrick Dunford
Static declarations require the DLL to be present when the app is first run. I think it loads the DLL then. Typically if the DLL is missing the exeption message "A required DLL xxx.DLL was not found" or similar.   LoadLibrary calls let you find out if the DLL is present yourself, and respond

RE: [DUG]: String Encryption routine

2001-09-25 Thread Patrick Dunford
I use a component called Acrypt which is on the DSP. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 13:31 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: String Encryption routine > > > Fir

[DUG]: Executing URL

2001-09-25 Thread Patrick Dunford
#x27;;  SE_ERR_DDEBUSY,  SE_ERR_DDEFAIL,  SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT:Result:='DDE error';  SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND:Result:='DLL not found';  SE_ERR_OOM,0:Result:='Out of resources or memory';  SE_ERR_SHARE:Result:='Sharing violation';   

RE: [DUG]: Turning on/off another computer

2001-09-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
There are API functions in NT/2000 for it, otherwise you would need your own client and server. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Moises Lopez > Sent: Monday, 24 September 2001 17:07 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject:

RE: [DUG]: Simulating a mouse click

2001-09-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
Do you need any of the standard shell functionality, if not then why not make your program the shell? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Graham Mayes > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2001 12:16 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > S

RE: [DUG]: Q uickreports and Temp path (was Metafile not valid)

2001-09-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
Sammy !! - Original Message - From: Patrick Dunford To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:31 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Metafile not valid How do you change the temp path in Windows

[DUG]: Q uickreports and Temp path (was Metafile not valid)

2001-09-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
en running programs for the new settings to take effect.     Sammy !! - Original Message - From: Patrick Dunford To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:31 AM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Metafile not valid

RE: [DUG]: Metafile not valid

2001-09-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
Title: Message How do you change the temp path in Windows 2000? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James SugrueSent: Monday, 13 August 2001 14:35To: Multiple recipients of list delphiSubject: RE: [DUG]: Metafile not valid Ju

RE: [DUG]: DsgnInft unit D5 Standard

2001-09-18 Thread Patrick Dunford
orm. > Its very annoying when you have lots for forms and you don't know > which one > it has appeared in!! > > Is there a setting somewhere I haven't got set to tell me which unit/form > this error has actually occured in? > > Eion McIntosh > PPCS Ltd &g

[DUG]: DsgnInft unit D5 Standard

2001-09-18 Thread Patrick Dunford
sing D5 Standard edition.   ======== Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, New Zealand http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/    

RE: [DUG]: closing modal form.

2001-09-18 Thread Patrick Dunford
Are you using a message box, or a form of your own that you have made modal? If the latter, can you free the form and will it then go away? I have the same problem in an app. It may be necessary to make the form "modal" in some other way. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: [DUG]: Displaying Hints

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
Normally the hint disappears after a short time. TApplication properties control the behaviour of hints. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of James Sugrue > Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 10:52 > To: Multiple recipients of list delph

RE: [DUG]: Hiding taskbar

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
I normally hide the taskbar without bothering with Windows calls, by making my app full screen. I think all you have to do is to set the BorderStyle on your main form to bsNone or bsSingle, from memory. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf

RE: [DUG]: URL Link Checker

2001-09-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
It would depend on where the dialog originated from. In some cases where the server requires the client to provide authentication, it sends back a header like this: WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Realm" "HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized" Typically this is used to authenticate access to a restricted

RE: [DUG]: Trapping ctrl+v

2001-09-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
Correct, CTRL is passed as one of the flags, it is V you are trapping. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter > Sent: Friday, 7 September 2001 12:55 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Trapping ctrl

RE: [DUG]: SQL Poser

2001-09-05 Thread Patrick Dunford
To rebuild the indexes you can use the TTUtility component set from O2A www.o2a.com   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark HowardSent: Thursday, 6 September 2001 10:41To: Multiple recipients of list delphiSubject: Re: [DUG]: S

RE: [DUG]: SQL Poser

2001-09-05 Thread Patrick Dunford
A very important point that can never be repeated too much:   It is absolutely imperative that when a table is posted a call is made to DbiSaveTable to flush the cache. On Windows 95 anyway, and there have been documented other issues on networks, and with Windows disk caching.   OTOH I hav

RE: [DUG]: System Tray app

2001-09-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
The one I have used which I am happy with is mdTrayIcon by Martin Djaernes. You can make an application autohide to the system tray (like the Volume Control popup adjustment) with the following code by firing the Application.On Deactivate event, telling it to hide the main form. I suppose setting

RE: [DUG]: Quality Icons

2001-09-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
You install MS Office, screen dump their apps and make the bitmaps from the dumps :) Seriously I have found that the use of icons from MS applications is extremely widespread. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alan Rose > Sent: Wednes

RE: [DUG]: Shared BDE Setup

2001-09-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
I also have a file bdenet.zip that I downloaded from the Borland site, which I assume is under the BDE part. USEFULLNESS --- This example can be used to setup BDE client machines to point to a central set of BDE DLL and configuration files. It allows easy updates to the BDE by havi

RE: [DUG]: Shared BDE Setup

2001-09-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
There is a Delphi Informant article over here. http://www.dbginc.com/whats_new/BDENet.html This is possible, but not officially supported by Borland. The local BDE install also known as a partial installation is not recommended as it will cause problems if you have more than one application that

RE: [DUG]: drive path extraction

2001-09-01 Thread Patrick Dunford
ExtractDriveLetter, do I need to spell it out? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2001 15:26 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: drive path extraction > > > On Sat

RE: [DUG]: drive path extraction

2001-09-01 Thread Patrick Dunford
ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName) If you just want to find out which drive is a CDROM, call GetLogicalDrives or GetLogicalDriveStrings and then call GetDriveType for each drive until one comes back as a CD-ROM. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [DUG]: Disappearing Components

2001-08-29 Thread Patrick Dunford
Try setting your hardware video acceleration to NONE and see what happens. Let us know if that is any help. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Myles Penlington > Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2001 10:49 > To: Multiple recipients of list del

RE: [DUG]: Lazarus

2001-08-27 Thread Patrick Dunford
ethods are the same. Lazarus was also available before > Kylix was released, and I'm sure Borland knew about it then, so who knows > what they think of it. > > > > --On Tuesday, 28 August 2001 3:32 p.m. +1200 Patrick Dunford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

RE: [DUG]: Lazarus

2001-08-27 Thread Patrick Dunford
When it was last raised in these pages there was a big discussion about infringing Borland's copyright on Delphi. I don't know but would be interested to find out what Borland thinks of this project, one would have thought they would at the very least be protecting their investment in Kylix. > -

RE: [DUG]: xfer between PCs

2001-08-26 Thread Patrick Dunford
Have you copied all your registry settings   One lot are under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Borland Then for each user you log on as that user and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland   MS Dependency Walker is pretty good at resolving dependent libraries (things that might be installed

RE: [DUG]: Wrap text

2001-08-25 Thread Patrick Dunford
You can wrap text yourself in a TStringGrid. I did this once in a project. The way it was implemented was to have a TMemo the same width as the column I want to put my text into, place the text in the Text property then read off the Lines[0] and Lines[1] to get the two lines if it has wrapped aro

RE: [DUG]: Application.processmessages

2001-08-21 Thread Patrick Dunford
The only reason you should have problems like this with included units is if you are using classes that are in the units. In this case, TApplication class, which I thought was actually part of an application anyway. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[DUG]: Modal Dialogs

2001-08-19 Thread Patrick Dunford
    Is there any way of recalling a modal dialog once it has been shown?   Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, New Zealand http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/    

RE: [DUG]: Forms in DLL (again?)

2001-08-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
1 21:04 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Forms in DLL (again?) > > > Not if you activate it with ShowModal as Alex mentioned. > > Ross. > > Patrick Dunford wrote: > > > What you have described occurs with all dialog boxes, DLL or not. > &

RE: [DUG]: Forms in DLL (again?)

2001-08-05 Thread Patrick Dunford
What you have described occurs with all dialog boxes, DLL or not. Press Alt-Tab to get back to where you want to be. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alex Kouznetsov > Sent: Monday, 6 August 2001 16:02 > To: Multiple recipients of li

RE: [DUG]: For loop

2001-08-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
No. Use a repeat or while loop. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy CoulterSent: Saturday, 4 August 2001 15:22To: Multiple recipients of list delphiSubject: [DUG]: For loop Hi all. Is there away in Delphi to do a fo

RE: [DUG]: Delphi to Interbase access options

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
Other - could include the free Zeos components. I haven';t used the IB ones much, only the PostgreSQL ones.  -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MartinSent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 17:07To: Multiple recipients of list delp

RE: [DUG]: LCK files

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
The old way is to call DbiSaveTable each time the table is posted. Absolutely essential in fact, I have found on numerous occasions that without it, data loss is almost routine on average Win95 type machines. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > B

RE: [DUG]: Posting Mail

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
Hmm yes, a certain service I subscribe to does this auto - I know it took someone off a group I run because they had 400 messages bounced. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Stephen Barker > Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 13:51 > To: Mul

RE: [DUG]: ComboBox help

2001-08-02 Thread Patrick Dunford
The DropDownList style is for a fixed list of items. The Text property only applies to the style of combobox where the user can actually type text in at the top and it doesn't have to be an item in the list. with DropDownList the item they choose has to be one in the list so they can't type in som

RE: [DUG]: SplashScreen

2001-07-31 Thread Patrick Dunford
As soon as it is shown, call the Update method and/or Application.ProcessMessages > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 22:19 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: SplashScreen

RE: [DUG]: RICHEDIT CaretPos := xxx

2001-07-29 Thread Patrick Dunford
Use SelStart & SelLength ? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Rohit Gupta > Sent: Sunday, 29 July 2001 16:23 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: RICHEDIT CaretPos := xxx > > > How do I set the caret position on

[DUG]: Contractor wanted Christchurch [1]

2001-07-26 Thread Patrick Dunford
A community organisation requires a programmer to maintain two databases and their Delphi software on as-required basis. Christchurch city.   Please reply by personal e-mail.  

[DUG]: Contractor wanted Christchurch [2]

2001-07-26 Thread Patrick Dunford
A community organisation requires a programmer to maintain two databases and their Delphi software on as-required basis. Optionally also a number of MS Access databases, plus macro programming in Excel and Word. Christchurch city.   Please reply by personal e-mail.  

RE: [DUG]: SQL Update question

2001-07-26 Thread Patrick Dunford
MS Jet Error Reference Operation must use an updatable query. (Error 3073) You tried to run, open, or modify a query that isn't updatable. Possible causes: * You attempted to run a query that tried to update a field that can't be updated. For example, you may have created the query in suc

[DUG]: Default Exception Handler

2001-07-22 Thread Patrick Dunford
Since Delphi 5 I am finding that my applications no longer display the default exception message dialog when an unhandled exception occurs in the application.   It seems I have to write an exception handler for Application.OnException, or did I miss something?    

RE: [DUG]: Destroying Objects

2001-07-18 Thread Patrick Dunford
Doesn't the owner destroy all components it owns? Even ones you create yourself? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of James Low > Sent: Thursday, 19 July 2001 12:34 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Destroying

RE: [DUG]: Quick report buttons

2001-07-17 Thread Patrick Dunford
Don't know but if you create your own preview form with the preview component you can put any buttons you want on it > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of John Christenhusz > Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2001 14:04 > To: Multiple recipients of

RE: [DUG]: Key Violation

2001-07-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of James Sugrue > Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2001 13:59 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Key Violation > > > Sounds like the problem was due to a system crash when the > program

RE: [DUG]: Ole Automation Server

2001-07-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
ExcelApp:=CreateOLEObject('Excel.Application'); //Since D5 you can replace this with the Excel server ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open(ExcelFileName,0,False); ExcelApp.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.Item(1).Activate; [...] procedure TMainForm.WriteCellString(CRow,CCo

RE: [DUG]: Cannot run Delphi 5 in Hi-Resolution

2001-07-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
As I recall, the specifics of the problem are how the drivers handle the video card's memory becoming full.   The most common problem that is seen is with icons (for example the VCL component icons). Over a certain number of icons they either start to draw funny, or your PC just locks up. Y

RE: [DUG]: Cannot run Delphi 5 in Hi-Resolution

2001-07-12 Thread Patrick Dunford
Maybe it has an S3 video card? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob OsbornSent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 17:08To: Multiple recipients of list delphiSubject: Re: [DUG]: Cannot run Delphi 5 in Hi-Resolution You may need to tur

RE: Listbox items (Was: Re: [DUG]: array of TStringList)

2001-07-10 Thread Patrick Dunford
In my app I handled this (in a TListView) by writing an event handler for the OnDeletion event. This allowed me to call the Clear method freely without worrying about memory. Referring to my previous code, this is the event handler: procedure TMainForm.ServicesListDeletion(Sender: TObject; Item:

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
gt; > > At the bottom was fine, but when they moved the adverts to the top of the > message it became annoying having to page scroll through the adds, hence > writing the procmail filter to get rid of them. > > --On Monday, July 09, 2001 5:36 PM +1200 Patrick Dunford > <[EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
But you can block all unsafe attachments in Outlook. And Y! just admitted that their attachment checker can't detect UUencoded attachments. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Peter Hyde > Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2001 09:03 > To: Multiple

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
Correction. Most of the groups I'm on haven't received _any_ advertising for some time. Usually they just get a single line about terms and conditions. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Nic Wise > Sent: Monday, 9 July 2001 17:03 > To:

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Nic Wise > Sent: Monday, 9 July 2001 17:03 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning] > snip > > > I'm a user of Yahoo Groups and it offers heap

RE: [DUG]: TWebBrowser and Enter key

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
I have found also (just today) that the shortcut menu does not work. Copying text or shortcuts from a page in a WebBrowser control does not work (doesn't get copied). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alex Kouznetsov > Sent: Friday, 6

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
"we > will" > > The list software that is used can't do it, and is still in use.. > > N > - Original Message - > From: "Patrick Dunford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
I have ZoneAlarm running and it renamed it hpbmset.zl9 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Edward Aretino > Sent: Monday, 9 July 2001 15:12 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warni

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
Yes, its a great pity the administrators of this list have still not gotten around to blocking attachments, and all those other wonderful things that were promised > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Edward Aretino > Sent: Monday, 9 July

RE: Listbox items (Was: Re: [DUG]: array of TStringList)

2001-07-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
It would be a fair assumption though (a) to use TCollectionItem practicably you will be creating a derivative class (b) it is designed more for use with visual components that have a component editor at design time and is used in conjunction with various types of visual components. > -Origi

RE: Listbox items (Was: Re: [DUG]: array of TStringList)

2001-07-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
It's still not an object. Records are traditional procedural structures. They don't have anything OO about them. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of NIRAV KAKU > Sent: Saturday, 7 July 2001 06:19 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi

RE: Listbox items (Was: Re: [DUG]: array of TStringList)

2001-07-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
Some understanding here is useful. It is not possible to create numerous objects with the same name. When you create an instance of a class (an object) you are doing several things: 1. Delphi reserves some memory for you 2. Delphi gives you in the variable on the left hand side, a reference to t

RE: Listbox items (Was: Re: [DUG]: array of TStringList)

2001-07-06 Thread Patrick Dunford
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ross Levis > Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 12:22 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Listbox items (Was: Re: [DUG]: array of TStringList) > > > Thanks all for the help. I think I will use a

RE: [DUG]: Multi Monitors

2001-07-03 Thread Patrick Dunford
How do you force the form to either monitor 1 or 2? I know there are two monitors in the system having tested at runtime. I have my form maximised, and hidden, DefaultMonitor will be the same as main form (monitor 0). The Monitor property of the form is read only (tells you which monitor it is

[DUG]: Multi Monitors

2001-07-01 Thread Patrick Dunford
How does one position a form of an app to appear on the second monitor, and be maximised on that monitor? The main form will appear on the primary display.   Will it stay maximised on that screen or will maximising it move it back to the main screen?   (My development system does not have

RE: HOAX [DUG]: HOAX Major HOAX Virus HOAX Warning HOAX

2001-03-13 Thread Patrick Dunford
Do you call yourself an IT professional, and: 1. Profess to be completely unaware of virus hoaxes; 2. Profess to have never seen a virus hoax before; 3. Profess to be incapable of checking with any antivirus product supplier before propagating hoax virus messages on mailing lists. I have enou

[DUG]: Digest mode

2001-03-11 Thread Patrick Dunford
Is a digest mode currently available for subscription to any delphi list? === Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ - http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness

RE: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names

2001-03-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
I thought it was around 32767 items on Win 9x > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Neven MacEwan > Sent: Friday, 9 March 2001 12:37 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names > > > P

RE: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names

2001-03-08 Thread Patrick Dunford
TStrings is fine if you want to read and write a whole file at once. If you just want to write one line to the end of the file then it's not required. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Steve Peacocke > Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2001 17:2

RE: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names

2001-03-07 Thread Patrick Dunford
Once you have assigned a file (which you can do in one procedure) why can't you just pass the file variable as a parameter into other procedures? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark HowardSent: Friday, 9 March 2001 13:21To: Mul

RE: [DUG]: missing VCL

2001-03-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
I believe the answer given by the other person is correct, when you install for a new user I think there is a registry only install that you can run. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurie BismanSent: Sunday, 4 March 2001 14:38

RE: [DUG]: trying to open web site in IE from a standalone program

2001-03-01 Thread Patrick Dunford
If the username and password are submitted to a script then these can be put in a URL as variables, if you know the names of the variables that the script expects. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Damien Long > Sent: Thursday, 1 March

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