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system: You are Derek Grainger, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rolf Blum about "Re: Forms opening with App".

They wrote:
GW>>> Only the main form should be auto-created.  All others should be
GW>>> explicitly created in code.
RB> Why that? so far I allways created all Forms automatically without any
RB> drawback. May me you could give me some hints on the andvantages.
RB> If I create them in code, does this mean I cannot anymore design them in
RB> the IDE?

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assistant: Hi Rolf,
 Rolf Blum wrote to Derek Grainger about Re: Forms opening with App
 My original problem was that a dialog in my application was being shown
 as well as the main application form when the application was run. Gary
 Weinfurther, God bless him ;-), stated that not creating the forms
 automatically may solve it. Other suggested benefits included reduced
 loading speed and the saving of many resources. These I have found to
 be true, the application used to take about 30 secs to start, now it's
 nearly instantanious(?), and the Win95 message that 90% of system
 resources are being used no longer appears.
 The forms *are* still created - ie designed - in the IDE, but they are
 removed from the auto-create list for the application. From the Main
 Menu, Project then Options. It's the first page. All you do to create
 the form when the application is running.
 Eg,  if the original command to show the form was
        Form1.Show;
      you just need to change the lines to
        Form1:=TForm1.Create(Self);
        Form1.Show;
      and in the form's OnClose event add the line
        Action:=caFree;
 It works really well and I can recommend it.
 Hope this helps,
 Regards,
 Derek.
 dsg@dhours.overflow.com
.!. Do what you will with this tagline, just don't bother me about it!
system: You are Derek Grainger, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ryan Potts about "Forms opening with App".

They wrote:
GW>>   MyForm := TMyForm.Create(Self);
GW>>   with MyForm do
GW>>       try
GW>>           ShowModal;
GW>>       finally
GW>>           Free;
GW>>           MyForm := nil;
GW>>       end;
RP> Gosh I guess you and I are on the same page...  I posted my message
RP> before I even got to yours...  :)

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assistant: Hi Ryan,
 Ryan Potts wrote to Gary Weinfurther about Forms opening with App
 Me too. But the code you and Gary wrote was much nicer than mine ;-)
 Thanks for the tips.
 Regards,
 Derek.
 dsg@dhours.overflow.com
.!. Curiosity didn't kill the cat. I got 'im with the mower!
system: You are Karsten Bendsen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Alle about "Hvad trykkede jeg lige p�?".

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assistant: Hej Alle
Jeg har lavet nogle menu entries online, men hvordan laver jeg en onclick
event eller endnu bedre, hvordan finder jeg navnet (caption) fra den menuItem
jeg lige trykkede p�
MVH
|<arsten
system: You are Frank Malcolm, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bryan Smith about "Run-time errors".

They wrote:
BS>  FM> Where oh where are the run-time error messages in the Help file?
BS>  FM> Sometimes Delphi gives a run-time error and doesn't raise an
BS>  FM> exception,
BS>  FM> and I had to go back to TP6 to find out what the error number meant!
BS>  FM> Has anybody found them?
BS> Turbo Pascal Run Time Error Codes

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assistant: Hi, Bryan.
[list chomped]
Thanks, Bryan. I was able to get that info from TP6 which I still use,
my concern was whether it was in the Delphi help system. Keith
Richardson has confirmed that it's definitely in Delphi 2, but I'm
damned if I can find it in 1 with any keyword I've tried to search on.
Regards, fIM.
system: You are Filip Heremans, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Winsock/Html-browser".

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assistant: Hello there..
I would like to write an application in Delphi 3 (Client/Server) to browse
Html-documents. I would like to support Java, ActiveX, Multimedia, ... To do
this I would use Microsoft Explorer or a very good Html-component.
The problem is that the files have to be sended over a serial connection. So
I have to write some procedures to request and receive the files and then
show it.
Does somebody knows how to do this ?
I was thinking about a sort of a Winsock with my communication procedures
enclosed.
Files, books, ... are all welcome.
Thanx,
Filip Heremans
(2:292/516.14)
system: You are Alessandro Antonini, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rolf Blum about "Help Needed ,Ttimer".

They wrote:
> I am using D1 so I am not familiar to TThread. What is ist? What can I
> accomplish with a TThread?

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assistant: Hello Rolf!
09 Nov 97, 13:27, Rolf Blum wrote to Gary Weinfurther:
You are not supposed to have tThread with D1. It is a class used to build
multithread applications and therefore is Win32 only.
C U!
Alessandro Antonini - p0010838@www.leonet.it
system: You are Alessandro Antonini, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bryan Smith about "Delphi as Pascal".

They wrote:
> begin
>   for j := 1 to 10 do writeln(j:2,' * ',j:2,' = ',j*j:3) ;
> end.
> My problem is that this does not work with Delphi 3 - you get the error
> message "File not Found, WinCrt.dcu". Does anybody know what happened to
> the WinCrt unit in Delphi 3 ?

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assistant: Hello Bryan!
11 Nov 97, 17:17, Bryan Smith wrote to All:
It doesn't exist, you have to make one on your own (or, to get life easier,
there are several ready to use in SWAG). Remember to include
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE} directive for text mode pgms. On the other hand why would
you need wincrt for a loop as simple as the above?
C U!
Alessandro Antonini - p0010838@www.leonet.it
system: You are Alessandro Antonini, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Custodian about "DLL THUNK?".

They wrote:
> Is there a way, when running a Delphi 2 compiled program, to call into a
> DLL compiled with Delphi 1?

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assistant: Hello CUSTODIAN!
30 Oct 97, 15:03, CUSTODIAN wrote to ALL:
Tunking techniques are fully described in the latest WIN32.HLP from Micro$oft
SDK. It's not too difficult to implement, therefore reading the help file
would
be more than enough.
C U!
Alessandro Antonini - p0010838@www.leonet.it
system: You are Joaquim Homrighausen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "D1: EncodeTime() / EncodeDate()".

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assistant: Do the above two function retain other values in the TDateTime return
variable across calls? I mean, how would I go about encoding a given date
*and* time into a variable of TDateTime type?
            %JoHo%
            joho@defsol.se
system: You are Karsten Bendsen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Weinfurther about "What did I just clicked on?".

They wrote:
GW> Answering an outburst from Karsten Bendsen to Alle on <15 Nov 97>:
GW>
GW> In English, please, Karsten.

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assistant: HEJ Gary!
Wups, sorry, I didn't see that it was the international conference, well I
have made some menu-entries runtime and can click on them in the menu, but
what how do i detect the caption/tag of the menu-entry i justed clicked on?
MVH
|<arsten
system: You are Larry Athey, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Filip Heremans about "Winsock/Html-browser".

They wrote:
FH> Does somebody knows how to do this ? I was thinking about a sort of a
FH> Winsock with my communication procedures enclosed. Files, books, ... are
FH> all welcome.

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assistant: Go to http://www.turbopower.com and pick up the trial version of Async-Pro
for Delphi, that'll solve the comm/winsock problems....
Larry L. Athey / USA MAX Graphics HQ-BBS / (308)762-2239 Up To 33600 BPS
    http://members.ricochet.net/~maxgfx / telnet://maxgfx.dyn.ml.org
         ftp://maxgfx.dyn.ml.org / mailto://maxgfx@ricochet.net
... Dr. Jack Kavorkian - Post-Birth Abortionist, Esq...
system: You are Steve Batson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Filip Heremans about "Winsock/Html-browser".

They wrote:
-> I would like to write an application in Delphi 3 (Client/Server) to
-> browse Html-documents. I would like to support Java, ActiveX,
-> Multimedia, ... To do this I would use Microsoft Explorer or a very
-> good Html-component. The problem is that the files have to be sended
-> over a serial connection. So I have to write some procedures to
-> request and receive the files and then show it.
->
-> Does somebody knows how to do this ?
-> I was thinking about a sort of a Winsock with my communication
-> procedures enclosed.
-> Files, books, ... are all welcome.

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assistant: Wouldn't it be easier to use something like RAS to connect the
computers via modem? Or, are they in the same room using a Null Modem
cable. Once you have a RAS connection, you could just copy or FTP the
files. Anyway, there is a good book on writing Delphi Internet
applications that might be some help, I don't have the title handy, but
if you are interested, let me know and I will dig the book out.
Steve
system: You are Steven Read, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ron Tuynman about "Date-problems".

They wrote:
RT> As an absolute beginner I'm not able to calculate the number of days
RT> between today and a given date in a database (dBase III+ table).
RT> After weeks of experimenting I'm able to calculate the number of
RT> days between two dates with TRUNC ( date1 - date2 ), but when I
RT> replace one of those variables with the datefield from the table,
RT> things go wrong.
RT>   In my former language I just simply used the very simple frase:
RT>   Days := date1 - date2
RT>   I'm using Delphi 1.0
RT>   Thanx by Tom (son), Anita (wife) and Kikomas (dog)...

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assistant: On 1997-11-13 (16:45) RON TUYNMAN wrote
Here's an example showing date manipulation.  If your dBASE date is in
a string form, then it has to be converted to a Delphi date form.  Then
it's a simple matter to subtract one date from the other.
program CrtApp;
{ Language...: Delphi 1.0        }
{ Written for public consumption }
{ No copyrights by me            }
{ Tested on 11/18/97 by SM Read  }
uses WinCrt, SysUtils;
var
  StrDate1, StrDate2 : String[10];
  ADate1, ADate2 : TDateTime;
begin
  Writeln('Today''s date is ', FormatDateTime('mm/dd/yy',Now));
  Writeln('The date in two weeks will be ',
          FormatDateTime('mm/dd/yy',Now + 14));
  Writeln('The date two weeks ago was ',
          FormatDateTime('mm/dd/yy', Date - 14));
  Writeln( 'The date string is ', DateToStr(date));
  Writeln( FormatDateTime( +
          '"Sortable date format... " yyyymmdd"', date ) );
  StrDate1 := '09/07/1997';
  StrDate2 := '09/28/1997';
  ADate1:= StrToDate(StrDate1);
  ADate2 := StrToDate(StrDate2);
  Writeln( 'Subtracting dates... ',+
           StrDate2, ' - ', StrDate1, ' = ', +
           (ADate2-ADate1):1:0 );
  Writeln( 'Subtracting dates... ',+
           'Today - ', StrDate1, ' = ', +
           (Now-ADate1):1:0 );
end.
Glad to help. ;-)
Steve
system: You are Joaquim Homrighausen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "D1: TStringGrid cell alignment".

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assistant: Is there a way to change the alignment of data that appears in a
TStringGrid cell? I'm using a TSG (instead of a Listbox) to display a number
of records from a binary file and want to right-align the display of some of
the cells.. ?
            %JoHo%
            joho@defsol.se
system: You are Joaquim Homrighausen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "D1: TStringGrid column sizing".

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assistant: Another thing (about TStringGrids).. I'm attempting to automatically size
the individual columns (at run-time) of the grid.
  I do this by creating a string which is identical (of fixed width) to one
that will be displayed once the grid has been created. I then use the
GetTextExtent() call to figure out the width in pixels, and then tell TSG
that column such and such should be of this width, it works for all columns
with one exception:
  XS:=FormatDateTime('ddddd @ t', Now);
  The column that displays the above string is too large (by quite a lot -
IMHO). I can't figure out why. The width of the column to the right of the
one holding the above data is set by doing:
  XS:='999';
  And then doing the GetTextExtent() call.. and it is *precisely* that wide.
  ???
            %JoHo%
            joho@defsol.se
system: You are Christian Iversen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "How do you make memory access in delphi".

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assistant: I am making a program that uses lots of graphics.
But then how can you make memory access direct, the mem array dosn't
work in delphi (pascal only).
I have seen in the online help that there are Win32 api functions for that,
but i can't find any??
And where does the screen memory start (so you are able to write to the
screen directly) and what system does windows use for addressing memory???
Christian Iversen, Denmark
system: You are Hans Tap, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Delph and Word".

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assistant: Hello all,
I have an application that creates an OLE connection to MSWord and with mail
merge function of Word Basic (implemented in MSWord) I create documents for
printing.
However, when de application starts it goes slower and slower....
Does someone has any idea what the cause is of this problem?
system: You are Ron Tuynman, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steven Read about "Date-problems".

They wrote:
-=> Steven Read schreef op 20 Nov 97  06:33:01 aan Ron Tuynman over
SR> Glad to help. ;-)

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assistant: Date-problems..<=-
 ..Thanx! Printed it and will test it soon!
 Cu,
 Ron
system: You are Steve Batson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Christian Iversen about "How do you make memory ac".

They wrote:
-> I am making a program that uses lots of graphics.
->
-> But then how can you make memory access direct, the mem array dosn't
-> work in delphi (pascal only).
-> I have seen in the online help that there are Win32 api functions
-> for that, but i can't find any??
->
-> And where does the screen memory start (so you are able to write to
-> the screen directly) and what system does windows use for addressing
-> memory???

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assistant: Christian,
Writing directly to the hardware (the screen included) is not
recommended in Windows. Not only can it cause problems, but it can also
cause your app not to be very compatible between systems and versions of
Windows. In NT, it won't usually let a program near the hardware anyway.
You need to write device drivers to get to the hardware or use API
calls. For graphics, you may want to look at DirectX assuming you are
using Delphi 2 or higher.
I am not a graphics expert, so you will need to get feedback from others
here if you need more info.
Steve
system: You are Rudi Raes, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "F1Book - Formula One component in Delphi11:02:5411/15/97".

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assistant: To open an ascii (table) file in F1Book1 in Delphi is easy : in the object
inspector you have only to put the name of the file in the box Filename, and
in a second the file is opened (after it says the file exists and asks if he
has to open it).
It is for me unpossible to open the file from within a program.
When I write
     F1Book1.FielName := OpenDialog1.FileName;
     Combobox1.Text := F1Book1.FileName;
I see in the combobox.text that the name is passed, but the file is in the
F1book NOT opened.
What do I wrong ?
Help please !
Rudi Raes (e-mail : rudi.raes@club.innet.be)
system: You are Giovanni Zanetti, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Weinfurther about "Winsock/Html-browser".

They wrote:
GW> You can import the Microsoft Internet Explorer control, which allows you
GW> embed IE within your own app.  You will still need to figure out how to
GW> download the files over the serial port.

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assistant: Hello Gary!
Wednesday November 19 1997, Gary Weinfurther writes to Filip Heremans:
to
In W95 there is a "direct connection drivers" to connect via serial port or
laplink cable two computer.
You can find it in the communication section of the W95 installation.
This can save a lot of work.
Giovanni
system: You are Joaquim Homrighausen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Weinfurther about "D1: TStringGrid cell alignment".

They wrote:
JH>> Is there a way to change the alignment of data that appears in a
JH>> TStringGrid cell?
GW> You will have to use the OnDrawCell event to draw the text
GW> yourself.  It's not really that difficult.  There are some
GW> third party controls out there that make it easier to do this.

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assistant: * On Fri 21 Nov 1997  18.26, <Gary Weinfurther> wrote:
Thanks - I ended up doing it with the OnDrawCell() event.
            %JoHo%
            joho@defsol.se
system: You are Carlos Sanchez Garcia, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Joaquim Homrighausen about "D1: EncodeTime() / EncodeDate()".

They wrote:
JH>   Do the above two function retain other values in the TDateTime
JH> return variable across calls? I mean, how would I go about encoding a
JH> given date *and* time into a variable of TDateTime type?

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assistant: Hi Joaquim!
Mr. Joaquim Homrighausen wrote to Mr. All:
    I don't remember the function sintax and I have not Delphi now, but I
think it's as easy as this:
    MyDateTime := EncodeTime(MyTime) + EncodeDate(MyDate)
 If it is not this way what you just have to know is that a TDateTime
variable is a real number whose integer part is the date (in days since a
giveb date that I don't remember) and the rest (float part) is the encoded
time.
 See you :)
system: You are Andrew Sprott, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Christian Iversen about "How do you make memory access in delphi".

They wrote:
CI> I am making a program that uses lots of graphics.
CI> But then how can you make memory access direct, the mem array
CI> dosn't work in delphi (pascal only). I have seen in the online

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assistant: Hi Christian,
   21-Nov-97 07:57:40, Quoting Christian Iversen to All about :
   How do you make memory access in delphi
   It does, try
  max_segment=$ffff;    { change this to $ffffffff for delphi 2 and 3 }
  p_char_array=^t_char_array;
  t_char_array=array[0..max_segment div sizeof(char)] of char;
  p_word_array=^t_word_array;
  t_word_array=array[0..max_segment div sizeof(word)] of word;
  etc etc etc...
and then in the code put
  char_in_array:=p_char_array(pointer_to_memory)^[offset_within_segment];
  word_in_array:=p_word_array(pointer_to_memory)^[offset_within_segment];
  etc etc etc...
Andrew Sprott
system: You are Glenn Delahoy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Hans Tap about "Delph and Word".

They wrote:
> I have an application that creates an OLE connection to
> MSWord and with mail merge function of Word Basic
> (implemented in MSWord) I create documents for printing.
> However, when de application starts it goes slower and
> slower....
> Does someone has any idea what the cause is of this
> problem?

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assistant: you might be opening multiple ole sessions.  two options are to close the ole
session after each run (which also causes Word to close if the ole session
caused it to open) or leave it open until your program closes.
glenn
system: You are Christian Iversen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Howto".

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assistant: How do you make a color darker in delphi
i have tried to subtract $00808080 from it is this right
How do you do it.
system: You are Hans Tap, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Glenn Delahoy about "Word Basic".

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assistant: Hello Glenn,
Thanks for your reaction on my Word Basic problem, but it is solved now: I
received a bug-fix from Microsoft (about 16 Mb large!). The problem was that
all MsOffice 97 programs run slower and slower every time it was started up.
Maybe it has something to do with the 'intelligence software' Microsoft is
going to build in the next few years and is coding expanded with user data or
something like that. Anyway, thanks for the help.
Greetings Hans Tap