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system: You are Ben Mc Call, 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 "Where to get example code?".

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assistant: Hello every one,
Im looking for delphi examples to pull apart and hopefully learn from.
I have used Turbo C to create a simple 16 color drawing prg that uses the
mouse, i would like to find a Delphi equivalent of this for example.
I am in Australia Vic and do have internet access so a site would be nice.
                Thanks All,       Ben
... It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.
system: You are George Dragicevic, 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 "RegisterClasses".

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assistant: Hi
I'm new to Delphi programming and have several books on the language. I've
been attempting several simple database programs from these texts and often
get the error message on running "call to RegisterClass incorrect or missing"
Could someone please explain thiis error to me as I can find no reference to
this error anywhere.
TIA.
George
system: You are Helmut Kral, 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 "V1: Probs ueber Probs mit TTable.CreateT06:57:0006/13/96".

They wrote:
HK> zu meinen Probs zu finden. Koennt Ihr mir bitte sagen wie das genau geht
HK> oder ob es ueberhaupt geht?
HK> Folgendes:
HK> Ich moechte in meinem Prog. (also zur Laufzeit) eine neue Tabelle
HK> die folgendes Aussehen haben soll:
HK>        Feldname     Typ  Groesse  Index
HK>     1  Eintrag       +              *
HK>     2  Titel         A     50
HK>     3  Interpret     A     50
HK>     4  Nummer        A     10
HK>     5  Verweis       I
HK> Die Felder 2, 3, 4 m�ssen eine Eingabe bekommen.
HK> Das Feld 5 soll einen Defaultwert '0' bekommen.
HK> Dazu sollen noch nachstehende, aufsteigende Sekund�rindexe erstellt
HK> werden:
HK>      Name       auf Felder
HK>      In         Interpret
HK>      Nu         Nummer
HK>      Ti         Titel
HK>      Ti_In      Titel, Interpret
HK> Probs:
HK> Fast alles! Das einzige, was ich schaffe ist eine Tabelle mit einen
HK> Primaerindex auf 'Eintrag' zu erstellen, wobei das Feld 'Eintrag' nicht
HK> Typ 'Zaehler' erstellt werden kann. Auch ob eine Eingabe erforderlich
HK> bekomme ich noch auf die Reihe, aber dann ist es mit allen Schluss ...
HK> Hier der Code, den ich gerade noch geschafft habe:
HK> === Cut ===
HK> procedure TMonte.Neu1Click(Sender: TObject);
HK> begin
HK>   with Table2 do
HK>     begin
HK>     DatabaseName := Table1.DatabaseName;
HK>     TableName := 'Test';
HK>     with FieldDefs do
HK>       begin
HK>       Clear;
HK>       Add('Eintrag'  , ftInteger,  0, False);
HK>       Add('Titel'    , ftString , 50, True );
HK>       Add('Interpret', ftString , 50, True );
HK>       Add('Nummer'   , ftString , 10, True );
HK>       Add('Verweis'  , ftInteger,  0, False);
HK>       end;
HK>     with IndexDefs do
HK>       begin
HK>       Clear;
HK>       Add('', 'Eintrag', [ixPrimary, ixUnique]);
HK>       end;
HK>     CreateTable;
HK>     end;
HK> end;
HK> === Cut ===
HK> Zu sagen waere noch, dass sich sich die Doku bei der Add-Methode der
HK> FieldDefs durch das fehlen des vierten Parameters auszeichnet ... Auch
HK> finde ich nirgends einen 'ftCounter' o. ae., wie auch andere Sachen
HK> ...

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assistant: Servus Alle!
Am Mittwoch Mai 29 1996 02:25, Helmut Kral griffelte an Alle folgende Zeilen:
anlegen,
im
ist,
da ich bis dato allein gelassen wurde, studierte ich nochmals alles durch.
damit weiss ich jetzt zumindest einmal, wie man auch die Sekundaerindexe
bekommt, das andere ist gleich geblieben ...
         TableType := ttParadox;
           Add('Ti_In', 'Titel;Interpret', [ixCaseinsensitive]);
           Add('Ti'   , 'Titel'          , [ixCaseinsensitive]);
           Add('In'   , 'Interpret'      , [ixCaseinsensitive]);
           Add('Nu'   , 'Nummer'         , [ixCaseinsensitive]);
icht
Kann mir wirklich niemand weiterhelfen, wie ich:
1) am Feld 'Eintrag' einen Zaehler (+) bekomme,
2) am Feld 'Verweis' einen Vorgabewert definieren kann?
Salut!
Helmut
system: You are Helmut Kral, 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 "V1: probs on TTable.CreateTable".

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assistant: Hi all!
i want to create a table at runtime with following attributes:
         fieldname    type  range  index
      1  Eintrag       +              *
      2  Titel         A      50
      3  Interpret     A      50
      4  Nummer        A      10
      5  Verweis       I
field 5 must have a default value '0'
and field 1 must be from type counter.
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  procedure TMonte.Neu1Click(Sender: TObject);
  begin
    with Table2 do
      begin
      DatabaseName := Table1.DatabaseName;
      TableName := 'Test';
      TableType := ttParadox;
      with FieldDefs do
        begin
        Clear;
        Add('Eintrag'  , ftInteger,  0, False);
        Add('Titel'    , ftString , 50, True );
        Add('Interpret', ftString , 50, True );
        Add('Nummer'   , ftString , 10, True );
        Add('Verweis'  , ftInteger,  0, False);
        end;
      with IndexDefs do
        begin
        Clear;
        Add('', 'Eintrag', [ixPrimary, ixUnique]);
        Add('Ti_In', 'Titel;Interpret', [ixCaseinsensitive]);
        Add('Ti'   , 'Titel'          , [ixCaseinsensitive]);
        Add('In'   , 'Interpret'      , [ixCaseinsensitive]);
        Add('Nu'   , 'Nummer'         , [ixCaseinsensitive]);
        end;
      CreateTable;
      end;
  end;
  === Cut ===
Has anyone suggestions:
1) to create the field 'Eintrag' as counter (i found nothing like 'ftCounter'
or else,
2) to define a default value for the field 'Verweis'?
Salut!
Helmut
system: You are Zack Jones, 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 Noel Hendrikx about "Resolution".

They wrote:
NH> I'm developing an application in 1024x768. What will happen if a user
NH> is running 640x480?
NH> Are there any soluions for resizing the application when changing
NH> resoltion?

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assistant: Howdy Noel!
05 Jun 96 15:53, Noel Hendrikx wrote to All:
He may have a hard time seeing all of your forms or the data on the forms.
One is to try running your application in various resolutions to see how it
looks.
Take Care, Zack Jones
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 All about "tedit for numbers".

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assistant: Hello all!
A question,
Has anybody perhaps the routines for a tedit component that will only accept
numbers.
Something like this :
TFloatEdit
TIntegerEdit
etc.
thanx in advance
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 Kees Spijk about "Returning values".

They wrote:
KS> Can someone give me an example of how to make a dialogbox
KS> that can return a value? (like Messagedlg)

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assistant: Salut Kees Spijk !
Just use a form, display it using ShowModal and return a value with
the ModalResult property. This value is the result of ShowModal and is
available separately. In the form, assiging a value to ModalResult
will effectively close the form. Normally you assign a value to
ModalResult in the event handler for the Ok or Cancel button. There
are constant defined for ModalResult: mrOk, mrCancel, etc. Look at the
on-line help.
{-Francois Piette-}
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 Bryan Smith about "Hello World".

They wrote:
BS> Thanks to Francois Piette for his "Hello World" post of 07 Jun 96. It
BS> made you think - which is what this echo is all about :-)
BS> What is
BS> really important about Francois' example is the way it forces you
BS> torealize that, deep down beneath all the mumbo jumbo of VCL's and
BS> point-and-click programming, Delphi is at heart just another compiler:
BS> and thatit can be used as such once you overcome any fear of altering
BS> the .DPR file.

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assistant: Salut Bryan Smith !
I am glad you appreciated my contribution...
You can go beyond my example and your code: you can write with Delphi
exactly as you do in pure C code: using a traditional
GetMessage/DispatchMessage loop and use a big case statement to
process every message. The good new is that you can really write very
small programs. The bad news is that it is no more so visual.
If you need fast and small programs, it's the solution. I will not
recommand it for ordinary application developement. Just for the power
developper having a very good Windows knowledge. A good example would
be a kind of daemon program without real user interface.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
system: You are Matheas Manssen, 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 "Format Write files".

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assistant: Hello All,
I'm searching for the format of Windows Write-files (*.wri). Other formats of
tekst files are also welcome (Word, WP).
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
system: You are Dan Ugrin, 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 Steve Batson about "Copyright symbol".

They wrote:
DU> Characters past 127 are entered by holding down the alt key then
DU> typing the character number preceded by a zero, using the number
DU> keypad.  The copywright character is alt+0169.  To find out the
DU> character number you can use the Character Map program that comes
DU> with Windows. Click on the character you want and the keystroke
DU> combination is shown in the lower right corner.
SB> I tried this in Delphi with Win95 and it beeps and pops up another
SB> screen...You can put it in with code by doing MyStr:=Chr(167).

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assistant: I don't have Windows 95.  The method above works fine with Win 3.1
and Delphi 1.0.  Maybe someone out there has a Win95 solution?  One
posibility is run the Win 3.1 Character Map program and use its
select/copy function to place the extended character onto the clip-
board, then paste it into Delphi.
Dan
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 Dan Ugrin about "Re: file drag".

They wrote:
>       j := DragQueryFile(Msg.wParam, $FFFF, dropname, 127);
> First time you call it with a -1 ($FFFF) parameter and it

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assistant: ^^^^^
This parameter is a DWORD (LongInt).
You should be using $FFFFFFFF.
Ron
system: You are Justin Marquez, 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 "A question....".

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assistant: In my Delphi applications, if I double-click on the little box in the
upper left corner of a form's window, the window closes, but not the
application itself.   It still shows up in the "Task List", but I cannot show
it if I switch to it.  I have provided controls which use the
Application.Terminate method to completely shut down the app, but the users
may decide to hit the little box instead of using my "Exit" buttons.
       Is there a way to control how the application uses the built-in window
control box?
Justin Marquez
Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
system: You are Chris Mann, 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 Dan Ugrin about "Copyright symbol".

They wrote:
SB>> I tried this in Delphi with Win95 and it beeps and pops up another
SB>> screen...You can put it in with code by doing MyStr:=Chr(167).
DU> I don't have Windows 95.  The method above works fine with Win 3.1
DU> and Delphi 1.0.  Maybe someone out there has a Win95 solution?  One
DU> posibility is run the Win 3.1 Character Map program and use its
DU> select/copy function to place the extended character onto the clip-
DU> board, then paste it into Delphi.

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assistant: On Jun 13 18:41 96, Dan Ugrin of 1:103/604 wrote:
Just to pass on the information... With Delphi 2.0 I use Alt 0169 for that
character.
Chris
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 Ben Mc Call about "Where to get example code".

They wrote:
BMC> Hello every one,
BMC> Im looking for delphi examples to pull apart and hopefully learn from.
BMC> I have used Turbo C to create a simple 16 color drawing prg that uses
BMC> mouse, i would like to find a Delphi equivalent of this for example.
BMC> I am in Australia Vic and do have internet access so a site would be

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assistant: Hi, Ben.
Delphi comes with many example programs to learn from.
he
It includes a 16 colour drawing program with much of the functionality
of Windows PaintBrush (although it looks different).
nice.
I am in Sydney, Australia and do not (at the moment) have internet
access.
There's not necessarily much use in looking at Delphi source, most of
the guts of at least simple programs is in the visual interface. That
drawing program, for example, is just 379 lines of code. That's to draw
lines (6 different line styles, 100 different line widths), and
rectangles and ellipses (filled or unfilled with 8 different fill
patterns) - all with "rubber band" drawing. It includes 16 colours, file
saving and printing, and cutting, copying and pasting to the clipboard.
You really need to see Delphi and use it to appreciate its full power.
Here, for example, is *all* the code that actually does the drawing.
(All of the procedures that this code calls are already built into the
Delphi components.)
procedure TForm1.DrawShape(TopLeft, BottomRight: TPoint;
                           AMode: TPenMode);
begin
  with Image.Canvas do
  begin
    Pen.Mode := AMode;
    case DrawingTool of
      dtLine: begin
              MoveTo(TopLeft.X, TopLeft.Y);
              LineTo(BottomRight.X, BottomRight.Y);
              end;
      dtRectangle: Rectangle(TopLeft.X, TopLeft.Y, BottomRight.X,
                             BottomRight.Y);
      dtEllipse: Ellipse(TopLeft.X, TopLeft.Y, BottomRight.X,
                         BottomRight.Y);
      dtRoundRect: RoundRect(TopLeft.X, TopLeft.Y, BottomRight.X,
                             BottomRight.Y,
                             (TopLeft.X - BottomRight.X) div 2,
                             (TopLeft.Y - BottomRight.Y) div 2);
    end;
  end;
end;
Regards, fIM.
 * * Objects in taglines are closer than they appear.
system: You are Lewin Edwards, 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 Steve Batson about "Uses "unit"".

They wrote:
BS>> Are you sure ?  The way that the most trivial program that uses a
BS>> visualcomponent jumps to at least 250k or so in size certainly
BS>> creates theimpression that the Turbo Pascal smart linker has become
BS>> an extinct species.
SB> Butting in and adding my 2 cents <G>....You must understand that in order
SB> for an application to create a simple window and all the stuff that makes
SB> it work as it does, requires a reasonable amount of code. A comparable C
SB> program using the MFC or OWL might have a small exe but would require a
SB> mentioned in the past a few times, it would be nice to have the option to
SB> distribute a DLL or set of DLLs for use by Delphi apps and then compile
SB> your apps to use those DLLs instead of putting reusable code in each exe.

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assistant: No it doesn't. 8-9K of object code (maybe 6K if you write in asm) plus dialog
templates. __All__ the object-oriented Windows languages add a pretty vast
bloat to executable size when coding trivial, or at least small programs.
big
MFC and OWL are both really, really special (and unusually bad) examples
though, mainly because the operating environments they are designed to use
don't have an OO design paradigm, and so the runtime library has a lot of
work to do.
You want such an option ? I am already writing a shareware registration DLL
(well, more than for shareware really, it's a general purpose licensing API).
Win16 version is in beta as we speak. The Win32 and OS/2 Presentation Manager
versions will follow after my exams.
I have plans on the drawing board for a couple of other programmer aid type
DLLs and would be open to suggestions from others as to what I should be
writing.
-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0419320415 * 0412809805 * 0414927056
system: You are Stuart Fox, 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 Peter Collis about "using functions/procedures from diff cod01:27:0806/13/96".

They wrote:
sf>> I've added the .pas file containing the procedure and function
sf>> to the 'uses' list, but I'm sure I'm missing something
sf>> obvious... Anyone care to shed any light for me?  Thanks.
PC> You have to add function/procedure profiles to the interface section
PC> of the pas file.
PC> function myFunction(s:string): string;
PC> procedure myProcedure(s:string);

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assistant: * Replying to msg from Peter Collis to stuart fox, on 10 Jun 96 14:05.
Ah... thanks very much for that - it's now working properly. :-)  Although
you didn't say it had to go after the uses line. :)
I had that okily dokily, except I was (previously) adding it to the wrong
section - I was trying to copy some of methods the examples used.
Also, another question.. :)  In the fmxutils.pas file (that comes with delphi
1.0), everything works under Win 3.1, but as soon as I compile it under NT,
it doesn't like the
    DeleteFile(FileName);
in the MoveFile() procedure; it complains that it is a PChar type and not a
string - funny thing is though, even if I declare it as a String it still
doesn't like it - the DeleteFile()'s parameter is of string type (according
to the online help).
Any ideas on this one? :)
Thanks.
Ooroo,
stuart
system: You are Stuart Fox, 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 Jurgen Blaak about "Copyright symbol".

They wrote:
JB> Somewhile ago somebody wrote a message about the copyright symbol. Can
JB> anyone tell me how I can get that symbol it was something with the ALT
JB> button but I don't know the numbers anymore.

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assistant: * Replying to msg from Jurgen Blaak to All, on 07 Jun 96 22:59.
Alt-0169.  If you kick up the Character Map application from your Accessories
group, you'll find you can click on the character of your choice, and it will
display the appropriate Alt-key combination down on the bottom right/left of
the screen.
Ooroo,
stuart
system: You are Derek Benner, 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 "Uses "unit"".

They wrote:
BS> One step in the learning curve of Windows programming is to convince
BS> yourself that nobody cares about the size of your programs any more.
BS> Everybody has a Gig. disk (or will soon buy one) !  Back in the early
BS> days,when the entire system had to fit on a 360K floppy, I remember
BS> sweatingblood to shrink a program down below the disk allocation unit
BS> size (1024
BS> bytes).  But those days are gone.  Hardware prices keep falling, and
BS> nowadays the most expensive component of a computer systems is
BS> usually theprogrammers' time.  So if the cost of saving programmer
BS> time is a larger
BS> program, you bite the bullet.
BS> It is because a significant portion of the population now understands
BS> theWindows idiom.  I used to be a Windows non-believer, but "in
BS> response topublic demand", I provided a Windows interface to a suite
BS> of DOS programs.
BS> Watching the users almost instinctive reaction to it made a believer
BS> out ofme.

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assistant: Bryan,
Surprise, surprise, surprise!!!  Those days are still here!  While it IS true
that we don't have to run off of dual-360K floppy systems, consider the cost
to develope an application if your target is to be distributed by 1.44Meg
disks.  Even with the BEST Zip and installation utilities, if your app
requires more than two or three disks, with labels and manuals, your
duplication costs go through the roof, as do your shipping costs.  Now you
could distribute by CD-ROM, but even with the recent drop in CD-Writer
prices, you still pay around $15-19 per CD-R disc blank. If you're working
shareware, that quickly eats up your profit.  Also, in the business
environment, most users go for a fully powered Pentium or Alpha server and
MINIMAL configuration user workstations.  Thus, you may find that your
application works fine on your development system, but bytes the big one on
the accounting department's 486 with 6Meg of RAM and 250Meg HD.  Sorry, but,
it really DOES help to write to a minimum system standard.  Thus, even in
Delphi, squeezing the size of the application is a great help.
I definitely agree with you here.  With the number of Windows systems
established in homes and work offices, a user would be crazy to develope to
the DOS standard anymore.  Too few users want to bother with DOS,  So, too,
is the OS/2 standard obselete.  However, the Unix world, especially as
represented by the LINUX world, has seen tremendous growth.  It also supports
the X-Windows and MOTIF standards for graphical displays and there is now
even a minimal MS-Windows API for LINUX.  Thus, there is no reason to try to
avoid the Windows desktop for menus and dialogs.
Derek