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system: You are Bob Kersten, 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 "CRC-32 function".

They wrote:
BK> I just want a function that calculates the CRC-32 value [..]

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assistant: Hello All,
I've made a function which is able to do this in a VERY simple way (thank's
to some files from the SWAG, the JAMAPI and various other documents):
var CRC32_Table : Array [byte] of longint;
procedure Make_CRC32_Table;
var crc : longint;
    x,y : byte;
begin
 for x := 0 to 255 do
 begin
   crc := x;
   for y := 1 to 8 do
   if odd(crc) then
     crc := (crc shr 1) xor $EDB88320
   else
     crc := crc shr 1;
   crc32_table[x] := crc;
 end;
end;
function CalcCRC32 (InString : String) : LongInt;
var StringPos : integer;
begin
  Result := $FFFFFFFF;
  Make_CRC32_Table;
  for StringPos := 1 to Length (InString) do
    begin
      Result := Crc32_Table[lo(Result) xor ord(InString[StringPos])] xor
(Result shr 8);
    end;
end;
Bye bye,
  Bob.
system: You are Bart Broersma, 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 "Problem with auto-increment field.".

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assistant: Hi all,
I have a problem with an auto-increment field (wich is also primary key) in
a Paradox table.
On my form I have a tTable, a tDataSource and a tDBGrid component.
Now when I open the table and insert a record, the auto-increment field
does not get initialized automatically (I have to fill it in manually, or
else I get some DBE error).
I solved this by removing the auto-increment list from the Fields list
(after double clicking on the tTable component).
Now adding records seems to be handled OK, however the auto-increment field
is not accessable anymore e.g. code like
  SomeInt := Table1.FieldByName('PatientID').AsInteger;
                                  {^^ the field in question}
will compile allright but when I run it, Delphi says something like "Field
not found: PatientID."
I solved this one by making the column of the DBGrid that holds the
auto-increment field "read-only" (DBGrid1.Fields[0].ReadOnly := True). This
seems to work, but it's not what I want (what's more, I don't like this
hard-coded ".Fields[0]").
If it is possible I do not want to show the auto-increment field to the
user at all, it's only for internal purposes. In the final "product" I do
not want to use a DBGrid for showing the table, but I think I'll go for
DBEdit's.
This is my first Delphi project that concerns database, so any suggestions
are wellcome. Mind you all this is done in Delphi 1 (while I'm devoloping
this at home, I'm gonna port it to D2 at work though).
Hope to hear from you,
Bart.
system: You are Thomas W. Mueller, 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 "Problem with auto-increment field.".

They wrote:
BB> I have a problem with an auto-increment field (wich is also primary key)
BB> in a Paradox table.
BB> On my form I have a tTable, a tDataSource and a tDBGrid component.
BB> Now when I open the table and insert a record, the auto-increment field
BB> does not get initialized automatically (I have to fill it in manually,
BB> else I get some DBE error).
BB> I solved this by removing the auto-increment list from the Fields list
BB> (after double clicking on the tTable component).
BB> Hope to hear from you,

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assistant: Tach Bart!
am 05 Apr 98 um 02:20:52 schrieb Bart Broersma an All:
r
One way around that is using a static field list (double click on the tTable,
select Add from the windows popup menu) and set the "required" (?) property
if the auto increment field to false.
That's another way, didn't think of that yet.
Hm, was there a question in your mail? ;-)
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Brett Taylor, 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 "Delphi/RA USERS.BBS Problems".

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assistant: Hi All,
I've ran into some problems reading RA's USERS.BBS in Delphi 2.0. I am
reading it as I would in Pascal, but it doesn't seem to want to read it
properly. I assume it has something to do with thte 32bit compiler.
You see, it reads the first few variables in the first record fine, without
problems, however, once I get to about the 10th field in the first record, it
is positioning the first character of the string in the middle of it. For
example, in the userbase, my data and voice phone number is 604-820-2889,
however, when I read the file, it reads 04-820-2889. Position 0 contains 6,
however, it should contain the length of the string, should it not?
I've tried fiddling with many things. I've changed it to short strings, align
records, etc. I can't seem to get it to read it properly. I haven't tried
changing the length of word variables, yet. I'm hoping that should help.
Anyways, if anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks a
bundle in advance! :-)
Regards,
Brett
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system: You are Ryan Potts, 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 Brett Taylor about "Delphi/RA USERS.BBS Problems".

They wrote:
BT> Hi All,
BT> I've ran into some problems reading RA's USERS.BBS in Delphi
BT> 2.0. I am reading it as I would in Pascal, but it doesn't
BT> seem to want to read it properly. I assume it has something
BT> to do with thte 32bit compiler.
BT> You see, it reads the first few variables in the first
BT> record fine, without problems, however, once I get to about
BT> the 10th field in the first record, it is positioning the

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assistant: Brett Taylor wrote in a message to All:
make sure the record structure you are using is a packed one.
Thanks,
       Ryan
system: You are Simon Huggins, 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 "Year 2000".

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assistant: Hi,
Are there any issues I should be aware of with Delphi programs for the year
2000??
I am talking about Delphi 2 with database support. Are my programs going to
suddenly crash around my ears or might they work?
Does the datetime type accept years >2000?
Does the equivalent in the Paradox databases?
(And yes I will test the program itself but I want to know if there are any
general issues to be changed/solved before then or which would help)
bfn,
si.
Email: huggie@dial.pipex.com
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/huggie
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system: You are Abdullah Mohd, 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 Bob Kersten about "CRC-32 function".

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assistant: Why you compile it using C++ compiler and make it as DLL file ,,, then
call from Delphi .... if you want the fastest way ... but if you want
fastest execution I think it is good to convert it ...
system: You are Abdullah Mohd, 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 "change Screen resolution...".

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assistant: On day ago I droped a message here asking about
How can I change the resolution of the screen or the windows screen view
port ... and Now I get the function .... I drop it here for any one who
interst in ...
function changedisplaysettings
using this function you can change and setting related to the screen (
color depth , screen width , screen height .... )
system: You are Thomas W. Mueller, 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 Brett Taylor about "Delphi/RA USERS.BBS Problems".

They wrote:
BT> You see, it reads the first few variables in the first record fine,
BT> without problems, however, once I get to about the 10th field in the
BT> first record, it is positioning the first character of the string in the
BT> middle of it. For example, in the userbase, my data and voice phone
BT> number is 604-820-2889, however, when I read the file, it reads
BT> 04-820-2889. Position 0 contains 6, however, it should contain the
BT> of the string, should it not?

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assistant: Tach Brett!
am 08 Apr 98 um 21:54:02 schrieb Brett Taylor an All:
ength
I don't know anything about the structure of RA's USERS.BBS but I suspect,
that it doesn't save it's strings with a length byte but as null terminated
strings. If you then declare a record like this:
record
  a,b,c: something;
  s: string[somelength];
...
end;
and read the users.bbs as a file of this record you will find, that the first
character of the string is read into it's length byte.
In order to read it properly you must declare it like this:
packed record // make it a packed record to avoid alignments
  a,b,c: something;
  s: array[0..somelength-1];
...
end;
and use the pChar functions for this string.
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Bert Perlitz, 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 *.* about "internetdialer".

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assistant: hi, programmers,
i want to give one of my programs the ability to send and receive messages
via e-mail. so i need to connect to the internet. to do this i use a
smtp-component that can use the winsock.dll and it works fine if the
internetconnection is already done. but how can i connect to the internet? i
use delphi 1.0 since my program should be able to run with windows 3.x. and i
know there must be a way to do this since internetbrowsers like netscape oder
mickeysofts internetexplorer can do it.
and also i know this has nothing to do with winsock. it would be great if
anyone could give me a hint how i can build such a component or where i can
get a component to do this.
don't try to understand all...
                  bert the ;-}
system: You are Bart Broersma, 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 "Problem accessing PopupMenu (GPF)".

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assistant: Hallo all,
Problem:
In my application, whenever I try to access a popup menu (by code), I get a
GPF I cannot explain. The code looks like:
OptionsForm := TOptionsForm.Create(Application); {Dialog for options}
Try
  With OptionsForm do
  begin
    bla,bla,bla
    if ShowModal = mrOk then
    begin
      for i := 0 to PopUpMenu.Items.Cout - 1 do
      ^^^ this line will trigger a GPF
      {do something}
    end;
  end;
Finally
  OptionsForm.Free;
end;
Any reference to PopUpMenu within the
"With OptionsForm do begin ... end"
compound statement will cause a GPF.
However if I look at PopUpMenu.Items[i]."Someproperty" in the "watches"
window, it show correctly.
If I remove the code that accesses the PopUpMenu, then all goes well, so
the code surrounding seems OK (Setting one property of the OptionsForm and
retrieving it if appropriate).
If I run the code accessing the PopUpMenu outside the "with etc" statement,
it runs OK. So I've worked around it like:
OptionsForm := TOptionsForm.Create(Application); {Dialog for options}
Try
  With OptionsForm do
  begin
    bla,bla,bla
    OK := ShowModal = mrOk;
    if OK then
    begin
      {do something}
    end;
  end;
Finally
  OptionsForm.Free;
end;
for i := 0 to PopUpMenu.Items.Cout - 1 do ...
This works OK, but I don't know why the first example does not.
Anyone cares to shed a light on this ? (is that correct English b.t.w.?)
C.U.,
Bart.
system: You are Ryan Potts, 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 "Problem accessing PopupMenu (GPF)".

They wrote:
BB> Hallo all,
BB> Problem:
BB> In my application, whenever I try to access a popup menu (by
BB> code), I get a  GPF I cannot explain. The code looks like:
BB> OptionsForm := TOptionsForm.Create(Application); {Dialog for
BB> options} Try
BB>   With OptionsForm do
BB>   begin
BB>     bla,bla,bla
BB>     if ShowModal = mrOk then
BB>     begin
BB>       for i := 0 to PopUpMenu.Items.Cout - 1 do
BB>       ^^^ this line will trigger a GPF
BB>       {do something}
BB>     end;
BB>   end;
BB> Finally
BB>   OptionsForm.Free;
BB> end;

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assistant: Bart Broersma wrote in a message to All:
Cout should be spelled Count btw.  Also is PopUpMenu in the form OptionsForm?
 If it isn't you might want to reference the form that PopUpMenu comes from.
It sounds like maybe OptionsForm has an item called PopUpMenu and maybe so
does another...  It is hard to tell exactly with the code you supplied.
Thanks,
       Ryan
system: You are Tim Schattkowsky, 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 Abdullah Mohd about "Re: change Screen resolution...".

They wrote:
AM> function changedisplaysettings

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assistant: //Hallo Abdullah, //
am *11. April 1998* um *2:23:24* schriebst Du in der Area *DELPHI*
an *All* eine Mail zum Thema *"change Screen resolution..."*.
I think somewhere they said this only works for Windows NT ?????? Or was it
the other way around? Have You tried ?
Bis denne ...
             Tim
system: You are Brett Taylor, 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 Thomas W. Mueller about "Delphi/RA USERS.BBS Problems".

They wrote:
TWM> I don't know anything about the structure of RA's USERS.BBS but I
TWM> suspect, that it doesn't save it's strings with a length byte but
TWM> as null terminated strings. If you then declare a record like
TWM> this:

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assistant: Thomas W. Mueller wrote in a message to Brett Taylor:
Nope, they aren't null-terminated. They are Pascal strings.. Besides, later
on in the same record, the character at [1] ends up being the 10th or so
character of what it really should be.
Regards,
Brett
E-Mail:
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system: You are Brett Taylor, 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 Dewayne Cox about "Delphi/RA USERS.BBS Problems".

They wrote:
DC> Change the following lines of the UsersRecord contained in the
DC> Struch.100 file.
DC> USERSrecord = record (change to)
DC> USERSrecord = packed record
DC> Elapsed: Integer; (change to)
DC> Elapsed: SmallInt;
DC> Those changes will do it for you.

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assistant: Dewayne Cox wrote in a message to Brett Taylor:
Don't you mean struct.250?
Great! Thanks a lot, Dewayne!
Regards,
Brett
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system: You are Thomas W. Mueller, 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 Bob Kersten about "only one instance of an application".

They wrote:
BK> How can I make a Delphi program that checks if there's another copy
BK> already running, and if so, switches the focus to that copy and
BK> terminates itself?!

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assistant: Tach Bob!
am 15 Apr 98 um 18:45:58 schrieb Bob Kersten an All:
I have used an event semaphore for this:
It is created with a name unique to my program. If this fails, another
instance is already running, so I post this event semaphore and terminate. If
not, I poll it in the application.onIdle Event. If it gets posted, I activate
the program and reset the semaphore. Works for me...
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Haakan Karlsson, 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 "Viewing values?".

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assistant: How do I view a value that shall look like something in an 'Edit' component
without borders, but it shall _not_ be editable and preferrably have some
fixed text before/after the value?
 Best regards. //Haakan
system: You are Tim Schattkowsky, 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 Fred Burgess about "Re: Communications in NT/95/9".

They wrote:
FB> I'm looking for the easiest and 'Cheapest' way of adding ComPort access
FB> into several of me programs.  These will be 'Shareware' so I would like
FB> to be able to basically Plug-n-Play with a Com Package.
FB> I know there is TurboPower,  but they want $$ for their package.  It's a
FB> nice package, but I can't afford that price yet.
FB> Is it possible to reuse the com stuff from TPascal?

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assistant: //Hi Fred, //
on *13. Januar 1998* *13:21:00* You wrote in *DELPHI*
*Everyone* a mail about *"Communications in NT/95/9"*.
If you only need port access there are some freeware components around.
Its IMHO not worth it. Unfortunately I bought it and it is very poor and
buggy implemented. Especially the TAPI support (they now sell it also as
ISDN-support, probaly because now at least some ISDN adapters work as the
should always have done) is wrong implemented. The ZModem has problems when
waiting for Handshakes and the whole system may hang when something
unexpected happens (i.e. you turn off the modem, cut the line or the remote
drops the line). It also possibly looses the first data received after an
TAPI connect. Consult the TAPIComm sample for a basic undestanding of serial
I/O. The access ports instead of a TAPI device jast open a COm port instead
of the TAPI device. I/O is the same. Not that some TAPI device do not support
COM Timeouts like the sample suggess, so its wise to set the Timeouts to
MaxDWORD,0,0,0,0.
No.
Bye ...
               Tim Schattkowsky
system: You are Tim Schattkowsky, 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 Bob Kersten about "Re: only one instance of an application".

They wrote:
BK> How can I make a Delphi program that checks if there's another copy
BK> already running, and if so, switches the focus to that copy and
BK> terminates itself?!

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assistant: //Hallo Bob, //
am *Mittwoch* den *15. April 1998* um *18:45:58* schriebst Du in der Area
*DELPHI*
an *All* eine Mail zum Thema *"only one instance of an application"*,
die hier am *Samstag* den *18. April 1998* um *3:31:18* eintraf.
MS suggests the following:
Create a named memory mapped file. if this fails because it already exists an
instance already runs.
This works fine in my applications.
Bis dann ...
             Tim
system: You are Tim Schattkowsky, 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 "Re: Speeding up string-list operations.".

They wrote:
BS> It seems to me that, some while ago, someone described a command that
BS> would speed up the building of controls that display string lists, by
BS> preventing Windows from continuously updating the screen while the list
BS> was being altered or extended. Does anybody remember what that command
BS> was ?

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assistant: //Hallo Bryan, //
am *Mittwoch* den *28. Januar 1998* um *17:36:56* schriebst Du in der Area
*DELPHI*
an *All* eine Mail zum Thema *"Speeding up string-list operations."*,
die hier am *Samstag* den *31. Januar 1998* um *3:38:14* eintraf.
BeginUpdate/EndUpadte ? ;)
Bis dann ...
             Tim
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 All about "Phone Dialing".

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assistant: Does anybody have a good solution for dialing the phone (for a voice
conversation) under Delphi 3 / Win 95 ?
My experience has been that sending stuff to the COM port only seems to work
AFTER you have run an "official Windows 95" program that dials out through
the port. I really don't appreciate having to log on to my Internet provider
- and then off again - before I can dial my neighbour.
On the other hand, I have downloaded half a dozen different TAPI (Telelphone
API) files for Delphi-32 from the Web, and none of these seen to work as
intended. Authorizing W95's built-in phone dialer to act as a dialing
provided for other programs does work to some extent, but it produces some
weird side-effects (like two copies of my main form !)
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 Simon Huggins about "Year 2000".

They wrote:
SH> but I want to know if there
SH> are any general issues to be changed/solved before then or which would
SH> help)

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assistant: On 09 Apr 98 Simon Huggins said to All...
Here's one from (the generally excellent) Lotus Approach database. Not
off-topic, I think, because it illustrates the kind of Y2000 thing that you
have to look out for in other programs.
Approach accepts ONLY 2-digit years in date entries. It appears to handle
Y2000 OK, but what it is really doing is using some year around 35 as the
switch point. <35, it is 20xx, >= 35 it is 19xx. This works fine for orders
and invoices, but not for people. If you enter the date of birth of someone
born before 1935, and then try to calculate their current age, you get a
negative number. (Too bad their pensions will never be paid !)
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 Tim Schattkowsky about "Communications in NT/95/9".

They wrote:
TS> first data received after an TAPI connect. Consult the TAPIComm sample
TS> for a basic undestanding of serial I/O.

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assistant: On 19 Apr 98 Tim Schattkowsky said to Fred Burgess...
Sounds good. Can you please tell us where to find TAPIComm ?