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system: You are Christian Padovano, 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 "System Tray !!!!".

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assistant: Somebody can help me , please ?
how can i put my icon  program in the system tray of windowz 95 ?
Thanx !
... RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!
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system: You are Mike Copeland, 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 Bart Broersma about "Language specific dialogs".

They wrote:
BB> I ported one of my old and much beloved TP programs to Delphi (1.0)
BB> (cost  me quite some sweating ...).

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assistant: I'd be very interested in knowing something about how you did this.
I've been programming in TP/BP for 12-13 years, having >700,000 lines
of applications, but I can't seem to "switch the paradigm" or find the
magic wand which will get me started in converting _any_ of my Pascal
programs to Delphi.  I just don't see any real connection between the 2
languages.
   I have many menu-driven DOS programs, small and large, and it might
make sense to convert them to Windows, via Delphi - I also own both
Delphi 1.0 and 2.0.  However, even though I've taken a 3 day class in
Delphi Development and have purchased several books, I have yet to
discover anything written to help the experienced (!) Pascal programmer
enter the world of OOP, RAD, or any of the elements of Delphi.  I'd like
to know how you did this (I don't expect it to be easy), and would
appreciate any insight you can provide.  So far, I've wasted >$1000 on
software, books, and education, for a product I'd like to learn and use
but can't...  TIA
... Just imagine a Marine with a flame thrower and PMS!
system: You are Vlad Koshelew, 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 "Aliases".

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assistant: ������ �� 䨣, All !
My English is not so well, then I'm sorry about this ...
There is my questions:
1. I can create an alias at run-time by BDIAddAlias, but how can I delete it
from idapi.cfg ( at run-time too ) ?
2. Is BDIAddAlias one way of adding an aliases or other method with using
high-level programming ( VCL, for example ) is exist ?
P.S. I use Delphi 1.0 Client/Server
P.P.S. I hope you understand me :)
 �������� ... ��୨� ���� 25 1997, 22:01. ��������, ������� ����� :)
... Friends, we'll be friends ... (p) Queen
system: You are Francois Piette, 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 Jud Mccranie about "RE: WINCRT".

They wrote:
FP>> I have Delphi 2.01 C/S suite. The Win32.hlp file is there. It is
FP>> located in the ...\Delphi 2.0\Help. The file size is 11.015KB and is
FP>> dated 11/06/96 2.01
JM> I've got 9 *.HLP files there with that date
JM> and time, but not thatone. Maybe I failed to load it. It should have
JM> been on theDelphi CD, right?

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assistant: Salut Jud McCranie !
Dans un message de Jud McCranie dat� du 21 Mar 97  19:01:00 il �tait dit:
Right !
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
system: You are Vasil Minaev, 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 "Created new areas".

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assistant: =============================================================================
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* Area : NETMAIL (NetMail)
* From : FastEcho Auto-Create, 2:5030/319 (Sat Mar 22 1997 07:29)
* To   : Vasil Minaev
* Subj : Created new areas
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system: You are Ron Westlake, 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 Padovano about "System Tray !!!!".

They wrote:
> how can i put my icon  program in the system tray of windowz 95 ?

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assistant: Use the TNOTIFYICONDATA structure with the Shell_NotifyIcon() function. If
you want to remove the application button from the taskbar, use the
ShowWindow() function.
Ron
system: You are Eric Schreiber, 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 Alexander Zavalishin about "csDesigning".

They wrote:
-=> Alexander wrote with startling eloquence to All <=-
AZ> Does anyone here know how to make a component to behave in run-time
AZ> like it does in the  design-time: to be surrounded by resizable
AZ> border, to be movable etc.? There is a simple way of coding this I
AZ> suppose.

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assistant: You have to code event handlers for each sort of behavior you want a
component to exhibit at run-time. It's not a trivial item that you can just
turn on, I'm afraid.
EEAS
eric@kobayashi.com    www.kobayashi.com/maru/
system: You are Eric Schreiber, 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 Bart Broersma about "Simple question".

They wrote:
-=> Bart wrote with startling eloquence to All <=-
BB> what is the proper way to show this form, which syntax is correct
BB> 1.
BB> Form2.SomeProperty := SomeValue;
BB> Form2.ShowModal;
BB> if Form2.ModalResult = mrOk then ...
BB> 2.
BB> Form2 := TForm2.Create(Application);
BB> Form2.SomeProperty := SomeValue;
BB> Form2.ShowModal;
BB> if Form2.ModalResult = mrOk then ...
BB> Form2.Free;
BB> I bought Delphi on some kind
BB> of special offer and it came without the manuals...

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assistant: In general, method 1. is the way to go. In a typical application most forms
are dialogs, and they're automatically created for you at run time, so you
needn't create them manually - just show and close them.
If you're doing an MDI application (such as a text editor with multiple edit
forms) you'll have to explicitly create your child forms.
The manuals are nothing more that printed verisons of the online help.
EEAS
eric@kobayashi.com    www.kobayashi.com/maru/
system: You are Janniek Hummelink, 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 "Focus on listbox".

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assistant: Hello All,
I encountered the following problem in Delphi 1.0 and 2.0:
(Borland Holland thought this was a bug ?!)
History :     I use a listbox in a scrollbox. During running the program, the
listbox is
                  filled with strings of various lengthes. (The width and
length of the listbox
                  is decided after investigating the strings).
Problem:    After you made a selection in the listbox and the focus is not
                 on the listbox anymore, (you pressed a button or whatever)
                 the listbox items jump back to the top as soon as the
istbox
                 gets the focus again.
Questions: -How can I prevent the listbox itemlist to jump to the top again,
                 as soon as it gets the focus again?
                 -Or is there another elegant way to make a listbox without
the 'top jump'?
Unit ListBox;
interface
uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs,
  StdCtrls;
type
    TForm1 = class(TForm)
        Show_Button: TButton;
        ScrollBox: TScrollBox;
        ListBox: TListBox;
        Choosen_Label: TLabel;
    procedure Show_ButtonClick(Sender: TObject);
    procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
  end;
    var
        Form1: TForm1;
implementation
{$R *.DFM}
    procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
    var
        n : integer;
    begin
        ListBox.Height := 50 * ListBox.ItemHeight;
        for n:= 1 to 50 do ListBox.Items.Add(IntToStr(n));
    end;
    procedure TForm1.Show_ButtonClick(Sender: TObject);
    begin
        Choosen_Label.Caption := (ListBox.Items[ListBox.ItemIndex]);
    end;
End.
system: You are Vince Karch, 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 "POSSIBLE PROBLEM ...".

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assistant: Hello,
Got a possible bug that you may or may not have discovered (I'll try to
be brief).  Create:
C:\WORKAREA\0
Edit a small project in WORKAREA and back it up (the project) to 0.
Now edit the WORKAREA project in some noticable fashion and then load
the backup of the same name from 0.  Answer 'Yes', you want to save the
WORKAREA project when you go to load the backed up project.
Ta da!  The backup now has the recently edited events!!!!  I lost a
couple of components that I thought were safely saved in 0 when I went
to 0 to review some previous work I was trying to modify.
UGH!!! ... Don't know how many IDE this is happening on, and I'm using a
later version of Delphi 1.xx.  Is it a wide Borland IDE situation???
Don't know, but it does exist in my copy of Delphi.
Let's be careful out there, eh?
FVK
system: You are Bryan Smith, 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 Bart Broersma about "Trapping Exceptions from TMemo".

They wrote:
BB> How do I trap EInOutError exceptions when I use the
BB> TMemo.Lines.LoadFromFile method ??
BB> Any suggestions here ? I need to be able to know wether the
BB> LoadFromFile or the SaveToFile has been succesfull.

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assistant: On 23 Mar 97 Bart Broersma said to All...
Instead of trying to trap the exception, why not stop the problem before it
occurs ?  i.e., check for the presence of the file.
In Delphi 1, that would be ...
if FileSearch(f1Name,'') = '' then  { f1Name is name of file }
begin
  { handle problem of missing file }
end ;
system: You are Bryan Smith, 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 Mike Copeland about "Language specific dialogs".

They wrote:
MC> I've been programming in TP/BP for 12-13 years, having >700,000 lines
MC> of applications, but I can't seem to "switch the paradigm" or find the
MC> magic wand which will get me started in converting _any_ of my Pascal
MC> programs to Delphi.

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assistant: On 24 Mar 97 Mike Copeland said to Bart Broersma...
You have to divide your old programs into two parts, the user interface, and
the part that crunches the numbers etc.  The TP code that crunches the
numbers should work fine in Delphi, subject to a little fine tuning to
handle a few changed function names (and, if you use Delphi 2, the
prostitution of Pascal to handle "C"-style strings).
The user interface, on the other hand, you just have to throw away and start
over.  The nice part is that your users will love the new interface.
In one of my programs, the main "algorithmic" part has a few bits such as
{$IFDEF DELPHI}
   s := FileSearch('A.A','') ;
{$ELSE}
   s := FSearch('A.A','') ;
{$ENDIF}
scattered in the few places where codes changes are needed. By adding
or removing a {$DEFINE DELPHI} line, it can be combined with either the DOS
or the Delphi user interface to generate DOS or Delphi executables.  That
way, I don't have to worry about the two programs algorithms getting "out of
synch."
system: You are Henk Hamers, 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 Bart Broersma about "Simple question".

They wrote:
BB> Here's something I don't quite understand.
BB> Say I have a simple apllication (Delphi 1.0), with Form1 as
BB> the main form. Now I add another form (Form2) to this
BB> project, lets say something like an  AboutBox or a simple
BB> Ok/Cancel dialog.
BB> Now, what is the proper way to show this form, which syntax
BB> is correct ?
BB> 1.
BB>   Form2.SomeProperty := SomeValue;
BB>   Form2.ShowModal;
BB>   if Form2.ModalResult = mrOk then ...
BB>   ...
BB> 2.
BB>   Form2 := TForm2.Create(Application);
BB>   Form2.SomeProperty := SomeValue;
BB>   Form2.ShowModal;
BB>   if Form2.ModalResult = mrOk then ...
BB>   ...
BB>   Form2.Free;
BB> Both syntaxes seem to work, so I'm a little confused here
BB> (am I missing  some fundamental concept here ?).

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assistant: Bart Broersma wrote in a message to All:
Yep!!
The first one is the correct one. Why??
Because you earliar stated that you already made the second form
with the IDE (in design mode).
In that case you don't have to make an new instance to get the form (its
already created at design time).
In your second case you are making a new form and you will never free up the
form you created at design time!!
Greetz from limboland, Henk
system: You are Henk Hamers, 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 Bart Broersma about "Language specific dialogs".

They wrote:
BB> Much as I love the result, I'm not all to happy about the
BB> common dialogs.  As my application is in Dutch, I would like
BB> all dialogs (OpenDialog,  SaveDialog, FontDialog etc) to
BB> have Captions and Buttons in the Dutch  language, even thoug
BB> I'm running it on a UK Windows 3.1 platform.
BB> How do i do this ?

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assistant: Bart Broersma wrote in a message to All:
You don't!!
If you use the common dlg's Delphi isn't creating these on its own. It uses
the commdlg.dll commctrl.dll in the windows system directory to portrait
these dialogs.
The only way to have only Dutch strings in your dialogs is to write every
error handling yourself. The second options is to replace the former dll's in
the system dir with the dutch versions. (I would not recommend this!!).
Greetz from limboland, Henk
system: You are Francois Piette, 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 Alexander Zavalishin about "csDesigning".

They wrote:
AZ> Does anyone here know how to make a component to behave in run-time
AZ> like it does in the design-time: to be surrounded by resizable border,
AZ> to be movable etc.? There is a simple way of coding this I
AZ> suppose.

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assistant: Salut Alexander Zavalishin !
Dans un message de Alexander Zavalishin dat� du 23 Mar 97  18:55:00 il �tait
di
In my opinion, I think that the component is for nothing in this
behaviour. It is only the Delphi IDE wich does that.
You can move or resize a component at run-time simply by changing his
properties (top, left, width and height). You can draw a resizable
border above the component by writing directly to the form's canevas.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
system: You are Francois Piette, 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 Bart Broersma about "Simple question".

They wrote:
BB> Hallo everyone out there,I'm fairly new to Delphi, although I've had
BB> some years experience in TP 6.0.Here's something I don't quite
BB> understand.Say I have a simple apllication (Delphi 1.0), with Form1 as
BB> the main form.Now I add another form (Form2) to this project, lets say
BB> something like an AboutBox or a simple Ok/Cancel dialog.Now, what is
BB> the proper way to show this form, which syntax is correct ?1. ...
BB> Form2.SomeProperty := SomeValue; Form2.ShowModal; if Form2.ModalResult
BB> = mrOk then ... ...or2. ... Form2 := TForm2.Create(Application);
BB> Form2.SomeProperty := SomeValue; Form2.ShowModal; if Form2.ModalResult
BB> = mrOk then ... ... Form2.Free;Both syntaxes seem to work, so I'm a
BB> little confused here (am I missing some fundamental concept here ?).

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assistant: Salut Bart Broersma !
Dans un message de Bart Broersma dat� du 22 Mar 97  12:07:02 il �tait dit:
Both syntaxes are correct. They are doing two diferent things. The
first is the normal way to show a form wich is created at program
startup.
The second one is the way you can create a new form on the fly. This
is normally used when you have many forms, too many to have them
created automatically at program startup. In the project options, you
can remove a given form from the auto-creation list.
The second way is also used when you need to have more than one
instance of a window. You can create as many forms as you wants and
have all them 'run' at the same time. Fairly usefull for a server with
a form for each client.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
system: You are Francois Piette, 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 Bart Broersma about "Language specific dialogs".

They wrote:
BB> As my application is in Dutch, I would like all dialogs (OpenDialog,
BB> SaveDialog, FontDialog etc) to have Captions and Buttons in the Dutch
BB> language, even thoug I'm running it on a UK Windows 3.1 platform.The
BB> same goes for the captions ("Information", "Error" etc.) of the
BB> (in)famous MessageDlg function, wether I call this fuction myself or
BB> some other dialog does (e.g. OpenDialog if you use the ofFileMustExist
BB> option and try to open a non-existing file).How do i do this ?Must I
BB> derive a new class from the TOpenDialog etc., and if so how ?As I have
BB> bought Delphi on "special offer" I don't have the source code to the
BB> dialogs unit etc., so I don't really have a clue how to achieve this
BB> sort of things.Can somebody please get me on the right track ???

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assistant: Salut Bart Broersma !
Dans un message de Bart Broersma dat� du 22 Mar 97  12:07:02 il �tait dit:
There are many solutions for this (common) problem. Here in belgium we
must create bi or tri-lingual applications (french, dutch and deutch).
One solution consist of iteration thru every control on every form
(there is a controls array in each form) and replace the cation
property for what is necessary. For example, you can design your
application with every caption set as a message number. Iterating thru
the control and replacing the numbers by the messages fetch from a
database or a string table resource will do the job, at run-time,
letting user to choose the language he needs.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
system: You are Christopher Di Armani, 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 Vlad Koshelew about "Aliases".

They wrote:
VK> My English is not so well, then I'm sorry about this ...
VK> There is my questions:
VK> 1. I can create an alias at run-time by BDIAddAlias, but how can
VK> I delete it from idapi.cfg ( at run-time too ) ? 2. Is
VK> BDIAddAlias one way of adding an aliases or other method with
VK> using high-level programming ( VCL, for example ) is exist ?

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assistant: Hello Vlad!
25 Mar 97 22:01, Vlad Koshelew wrote to All:
It's really quite easy... forget all about idapi.cfg.  You can create an
alias at runtime using TDatabase and assigning the alias to your ttable
components at runtime.  Here is a snippet to help out.
In your program's Main form's OnCreate event handler add this:
      Database1.DatabaseName:= 'MyNewAlias';
      Database1.DriverName:= 'STANDARD';
      Database1.Params.Clear;
      Database1.Params.Add('PATH=C:\DELPHI\DEMOS\DATA');
Then, in all the forms of your program, for each TTable component, add this:
      Table1.DatabaseName:= 'MyNewAlias';
      Table1.TableName:= 'CUSTOMER';
      Table1.Active:= True;
Modifying for individual ttable names, of course.  It works great, and it
solves the problem of having to deal with idapi.cfg. Hope that helps...
                        Take Care Of You.
                        Christopher
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
into the impossible.
system: You are Pat Pridgen, 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 Francois Piette about "Trimming a Path String".

They wrote:
PP> trying to figure out how to return the directory information for the
PP> ExecuteFile function from D1 FMXUtils Unit.
FP> Use the ExtractFlePath function.

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assistant: [ In a message from Francois Piette to Pat Pridgen ]
    Thank you Francois, I think this is just the function that I was
looking for.<G>
.                  [ Pat Pridgen - La Grande, Oregon ]
.                          pat.pridgen@svis.org
*SignIt 2.0 #001*
... I don't want to be literate, I just want to program!
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system: You are Konstantin Kipa, 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 Bart Broersma about "Trapping Exceptions from TMemo".

They wrote:
BB> I tried this:
BB> try
BB>   FName := OpenRtf.FileName;
BB>   Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile(FName);
BB> Except
BB>   on E: EInOutError do
BB>   begin
BB>     MessageDlg(E.Message,mtInformation,[mbOk],0);
BB>   end;
BB> end;

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assistant: �p�������� ���, �����㢠����� Bart!
�������, Sun Mar 23 1997, Bart Broersma ���, �� � ����ᠫ ��� All:
       on E: Exception do
         MessageDlg(E.Message, mtInformation, [mbOk], 0);
       {
          Where you use E.ErrorCode (you need to do this, if you want use
EInOutError exception class). Using ErrorCode (i think so) clear exception
from
exception list...
       }
                          �ᥣ� ��� �����, Konstantin. AKA 2:5061/24.61
system: You are Vadim Evteev, 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 Taras Boychuk about "Re: Test.".

They wrote:
VE>> I see. And do you see me? :-)
TB>      Maybe :)

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                          ��ιello, _Taras_Boychuk_!
                          ʼ��
Sun Mar 23 1997 07:47, Taras Boychuk wrote to Vadim Evteev:
Good. :) Let`s lift traffic together. :)
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... DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND - the fault is with reality