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system: You are Alexander Zavalishin, 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 "Exchanging data between applications".

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assistant: Hello from Rissia!
 What is the simpliest and the most reliable way for the application A to
check that the application B is running and to send some information (a set
of strigs or such) to B after? (For example: app.B is a scalable map showing
different buildings, app.A contains the list of these buildings, the task is
to highlight a certain building after it's name has been selected in the
app.A.) Shall I simply declare a message and send it to the app.B? Or shall I
use DDE?
                            Alexander
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 Gary Weinfurther about "Selected tekst in RichEdit".

They wrote:
GW> use the SelStart, SelLength, and SelText properties.

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assistant: Hello Gary,
dinsdag 10 juni 1997, Gary Weinfurther writes to Matheas Manssen:
Thanks! I don't underdstand why they are not mentioned in the help
information for a RichEdit.
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
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 "SQL date problems".

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assistant: Hi All,
I'm trying to use a Tquery and SQl for the first time and have read through
the help files but I'm still stuck.
It doesn't seem to give much help on using Dates in a database.
The database I'm using is the Paradox one it comes with. (Sorry Delphi 1 at
the moment)
I can't seem to get it to return records BETWEEN two dates.
This is what I tried:
horseq.sql.clear;
s:='SELECT * from "Events.db" where (Events.Horse="'+namecmb.text+'")
AND(Events."Date" BETWEEN ';
s:=s+'"'+fdate.text+'" and "'+tdate.text+'") order by events."date"';
horseq.sql.add(s);
horseq.open;
current:=horseq.fieldbyname('Date').AsDateTime;
It appeared to work, until I added more records and I've now realised that it
is comparing strings rather than dates.
i.e. "30/4/97" is between "1/4/97" and "3/4/97"
This isn't exactly what I wanted ;)
and I wondered if someone else had any good solutions to this problem.
Is there an SQL echo?
bfn,
si.
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Internet: huggie@dial.pipex.com
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system: You are Martin Maat, 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 Frank Malcolm about "OnMouseDown & OnDblclick".

They wrote:
FM> I need to have both OnMouseDown and OnDblclick events active for
FM> one of my components - but they don't seem to want to live
FM> together.

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assistant: Hallo Frank
I never encountered this problem (I did have exactly the same trouble you had
sending keystrokes though, if it's any concilation. I just gave up on it.
Next time I'll start of with WM_COMMAND and wParam=1 like you said) but a
quick workaround comes to mind. Declare a variable with component scope and
store the time in it on MouseDown. Just before doing that, compare the
current time with the time in the variable and invoke DblClick if the
difference does not exceed the double click time. You may even be able to
query Windows for the double click time. I would look for GetSystemInfo and
the like.
Groeten, Martin.
system: You are Ting-Chiao Chu, 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 Vitalik Melehin about "TEdit-like element".

They wrote:
VM> Hi, All!
VM>   Tell me plz somebody: Do have Delphi2 standart TEdit-like element,
VM> that work with Integer, etc. types, but not with string? Thanx.

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assistant: Hallo Vitalik,
On 07-06-97 at 00:05:06 you wrote to All:
No, but you can write your own components, for example (Delphi 1.0 code):
==========================<KNIP>============================
TLongEdit = class(TEdit)
private
  Function  GetData : LongInt;
  Procedure SetData(aLong : LongInt);
public
  Constructor Create(aOwner : TComponent); Override;
published
  Property Text : LongInt read GetData write SetData;
end;
procedure Register;
{************************} implementation {************************}
procedure Register;
begin
  RegisterComponents('MyEdits', [TLongEdit]);
end;
{-------------------------------------------------------------------}
Constructor TLongEdit.Create;
  begin
    Inherited Create(aOwner);
    Inherited Text := '0';
  end;
{-------------------------------------------------------------------}
Function  TLongEdit.GetData;
  begin
    Try
      GetData := StrToInt(Inherited text);
    except
      GetData := 0;
    end;
  end;
{-------------------------------------------------------------------}
Procedure TLongEdit.SetData(aLong : LongInt);
  begin
    Inherited text := IntToStr(aLong);
  end;
==========================<KNIP>============================
Some checking should be added to make the component foolproof.
The property TEXT can be accessed as if it is an integer (besides some
exceptions).
   _____
GR. |cc
system: You are Ole Almind Mortensen, 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 "Explorer property page for files".

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assistant: Hello All!
I'm have benn trying to figure out a way to display the property page from
Explorer. I want to show the information about files.
Is there by any chance anybody who know what to do?
Kind regards Ole
  HTTP://www.nightcall.dk/primeware/
  E-Mail: NoShit-Ole.Almind.Mortensen@237-10-150.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk
system: You are Gene Buckle, 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 "array of components in delphi...".

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assistant: From: Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>
Reply-To: geneb@.deltasoft.com
I'm trying to get an array of components on a form.  When I declare:
NodeLED: array[1..10] of TAutoLED;
within the "...class(TForm).." section, It gives me an error immediately
about an incorrect field declaration.  I would modify the component to
give it an index property, but I don't have the sources.
Thanks.
g.
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 "Exchanging data between applications".

They wrote:
AZ> What is the simpliest and the most reliable way for
AZ> the application A to check that the application B is running and to
AZ> send some information (a set of strigs or such) to B after? (For
AZ> example: app.B is a scalable map showing different buildings, app.A
AZ> contains the list of these buildings, the task is to highlight a
AZ> certain building after it's name has been selected in the app.A.)
AZ> Shall I simply declare a message and send it to the app.B? Or shall I
AZ> use DDE?

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assistant: Salut Alexander Zavalishin !
Dans un message de Alexander Zavalishin dat� du 12 Jun 97  16:04:00 il �tait
di
You need IPC (Inter Process Communication). There are many ways of
doing it. It depends on what you wants to do, and what plateform you'r
using.
Personnally, I have adopted Winsock. This is not too much complicated
and give me the option to run the different task on different computers
without changing my code, just change the hostname (localhost or any
host name in the world). This si quit fast and many more easier to
program and master than the Microsoft recommanded way using COM/DCOM.
It only require you to install a TCP/IP protocol stack on your
computer, even if it is not connected to a lan. Using Winsock is
compatible between 16 and 32 bit windows.
You'll find some interesting source code on my web page. Look for the
projects TNSRV and SRV5 which is are client/server modules you can
adapt to your needs (those samples are based on Telnet just for the
ease of testing, but you only have to change the port number to use
any thing else). http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
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 Matheas Manssen about "Selected tekst in RichEdit".

They wrote:
GW>> use the SelStart, SelLength, and SelText properties.
MM> Thanks! I
MM> don't underdstand why they are not mentioned in the help information
MM> for a RichEdit.

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assistant: Salut Matheas Manssen !
Dans un message de Matheas Manssen dat� du 11 Jun 97  20:50:01 il �tait dit:
Because it would give a huge help file if any component descending
from other where explained with all the inherited properties and
methods. It would complicate the help and would not be of any help.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
system: You are Quintin Oliver, 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 "Only me!".

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assistant: Hi All,
I've just joined this echo, as I've got Delphi v1.0, so perhaps someone could
help me I'm trying to open a Record file that was created in Qbasic v1.1,
however I'm not having much success, please help :-)
Bye for now, Quintin.
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 All about "Loading associated files".

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assistant: In many MDI style programs, such as Word for Windows, when you double click
on an 'associated' file (*.doc) in Explorer, Word will automatically run and
load that file.
I know how to do this, no problem.
What's got me stymied is how to load a second file into the *same instance*
of an MDI app. If Word is already running and I double click another *.doc
file in explorer, that file gets loaded into the already-running Word
applicition.
Anyone know how to pull this trick off in Delphi 1/2/3? Preferably 3.
Thanks in advance.
EEAS
eric@kobayashi.com          http://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 All about "Loading files with spaces in names".

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assistant: I have an MDI text editor that I'm porting from Delphi 1 to Delphi 3. The
16-bit version could handle loading an associated *.txt file when that file
was double clicked in File Manager or Explorer. For 16-bit applications, file
and directory names never have embedded spaces.
However, since the ported version is recognized as a 32-bit app, Win95 is
sending it the unadulterated long file names when a file is double clicked in
Explorer. My program parses in file name from the command line, and when it
hits a space character it assumes that's the complete file name and gives me
a 'file not found' error.
Anyone know how to handle accepting long file names on the command line? Is
Win95 feeding the file names with some kind of delimiter?
Thanks in advance.
EEAS
eric@kobayashi.com          http://www.kobayashi.com/maru/
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 Alexander Zavalishin about "Exchanging data between a".

They wrote:
-> What is the simpliest and the most reliable way for the application
-> A to check that the application B is running and to send some
-> information (a set of strigs or such) to B after? (For example:
-> app.B is a scalable map showing different buildings, app.A contains
-> the list of these buildings, the task is to highlight a certain
-> building after it's name has been selected in the app.A.) Shall I
-> simply declare a message and send it to the app.B? Or  use DDE?

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assistant: DDE will work pretty good for this type of thing. There are of course
other ways such as sending Windows Messages,OLE/COM, passing info
between files.
I haven't done much with DDE in Delphi, but I used it in
VB a few years back. It worked quite well. You can setup one program to
be a server and one to be the client. They can pass all types of info
between each as well as giving the ability to control and/or request
information from each other program.
Steve
system: You are Jeroen Van Rooij, 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 Jolls about "Re: Problem with sets".

They wrote:
MJ> I keep getting an error that Delphi is expecting an expression
MJ> in the SET OF line. It says it's expecting a "type" but it finds
MJ> '['. I've gone over the program and I'm typing it correctly. Can
MJ> anybody see a problem with this?
MJ> program Project1;
MJ> uses Forms;
MJ> type KeysType = set of [O..9, '*', '#' ];
MJ> var Key : KeysType; userinput : char;
MJ> begin Read(userinput); if userinput in Key then
MJ> WriteLn(userinput,' is in set'); ReadLn; end.
-=> Greetz, Jeroen van Rooij, <=-

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assistant: Hello Mike,
Saturday, 14 June 1997 06:50:00, Mike Jolls wrote to All Subject:
Problem with sets
Do it this way and it will work and it's much easyer to understand:
program Project1;
const
    Key       =  ['O'..'9', '*', '#' ];
var
    userinput : char;
begin
  Read(userinput);
  if userinput in Key then
    WriteLn(userinput,' is  in set')
  else
   WriteLn(userinput,' is not in set');
  ReadLn;
end.
.!. Forrest Gump: The pen is mightier than the sword. Yeah, right.
system: You are Jean-Michel Dossogne, 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 Ga�L Honorez about "Bonjour le Nouveau! Hello New user !".

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assistant: Bienvenue sur Doggy's BBS! Welcome on Doggy's BBS !
J'esp�re que vous appr�cierez ce bbs. N'oubliez pas de lire vos messages
ils sont importants. La messagerie est le meilleur moyen pour communiquer
avec pas mal de monde sur cette petite plan�te. Rejoignez-nous!
Ah oui, au fait, si vous �tes un faux utilisateur, ou vous �tes inscrit
sous un faux nom, ou avec une cle pirate, vous n'aurez pas d'acc�s
"enregistr�" � ce bbs.
Conclusion : les utilisateurs sympas trouveront ici de quoi se d�tendre,
une atmosph�re sympa, plein d'utilisateurs qui �changent des id�es, des
projets, de tout quoi. Je s�lectionne donc... comme un club priv�...
I hope you'll enjoy your connections here !
Don't forget to read your messages... it's full of important things
Message base is here full of connections with this small planet.. be part
of it, you'll enjoy it!
Oh yes, by the way, if you are a FAKE user, no joy for you.. you just
paid 6fb to Belgacom for nothing. I only upgrade user for which I'm 100%
certain of their identity and intentions... Michel Pirlot or Hubeaux, and
such guys are NOT welcome here, thus after the very very annoying behaviours
of such [censored] people, now, sorry, I'm becoming a bit strict.
I know, honnest people are always paying the price due to the unnacceptable
way of doing of such dishonnest guys.
I cannot afford to let anyone entering the system now, people already in are
though guys that want to communicate without being disturbed by such
annoying neirds.
Correct users are most welcome here, and will have a lot of fun here,
atmosphere is really friendly. Unsuitable people will not get anything for
them here, we don't want them.
Hasta la vista!
Jean-Michel Dossogne
the SysOp of Doggy's BBS
system: You are Jud Mccranie, 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 "D2 -> D3 UPGRADE WORTH IT".

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assistant: One of the major new things in Delphi 3 seems to be Web stuff.
If you're not doing any of that (i.e. doing regular apps only),
is it worthwhile to upgrade from D2 to D3?
Jud McCranie  jud.mccranie@camcat.com
... The ease of Pascal with the power of Pascal.
 * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW20178
system: You are Martin Maat, 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 Jolls about "Problem with sets".

They wrote:
MJ> I keep getting an error that Delphi is expecting an expression in
MJ> the SET OF line.  It says it's expecting a "type" but it finds '['.
MJ> type
MJ>   KeysType = set of [O..9, '*', '#' ];

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assistant: Hallo Mike
Try this:
type
  KeyType  = [0..9, '*', '#'];
  KeysType = set of KeyType;
Groeten, Martin.
system: You are Lars Skovlund, 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 Jolls about "Problem with sets".

They wrote:
MJ> I keep getting an error that Delphi is expecting an expression in the
MJ> SET OF line.  It says it's expecting a "type" but it finds '['.  I've
MJ> gone over the program and I'm typing it correctly.  Can anybody see a
MJ> problem with this?
MJ> type
MJ>   KeysType = set of [O..9, '*', '#'                          ];
MJ>   Key       : KeysType;

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assistant: Hello Mike!
Saturday June 14 1997, Mike Jolls writes to All:
By "type", Delphi actually means a type _name_. When using sets, you must
declare a base type FIRST... besides, I think the whole type declaration is
wrong - I'm surprised this made it to the book.
Try changing
                         (^ You have forgotten a ' here)
     const Key : set of char = ['0'..'9','*','#'];
Delete the above line.
Should work then.
Lars
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 Francois Piette about "Selected tekst in RichEdit".

They wrote:
MM>> don't underdstand why they are not mentioned in the help information
FP> It would complicate the help and would not be of any help.

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assistant: Hello Francois,
zaterdag 14 juni 1997, Francois Piette writes to Matheas Manssen:
Then I don't understand why very simple attributes like left, top, font,
color, name, owner, parent, etc. are repeated in the helpfile with every
component, where more not trivial attributes like selstart and selindex are
not mentioned.
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
system: You are Gary Weinfurther, 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 "D2 -> D3 UPGRADE WORTH IT".

They wrote:
JM> One of the major new things in Delphi 3 seems to be Web stuff.
JM> If you're not doing any of that (i.e. doing regular apps only),
JM> is it worthwhile to upgrade from D2 to D3?

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assistant: Jud McCranie mentioned this to All:
Yes!
                                ...Gary
system: You are Jerry Jankura, 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 "D2 -> d3 upgrade worth it".

They wrote:
JM>One of the major new things in Delphi 3 seems to be Web stuff.
JM>If you're not doing any of that (i.e. doing regular apps only),
JM>is it worthwhile to upgrade from D2 to D3?

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assistant: Jud -
One of the other items of interest is the way their new version
handles component libraries. It seems that they no longer require that
the run time library be recompiled each time you add a component. That
seems like a major advantage to me. I seem to remember reading stuff in
the TurboPower documentation talking about a limit in the number (or
size, I'm not sure which) of components which can be compiled into their
library. With D3, it appears that this has gone the way of the dinosaur.
system: You are Jean-Michel Dossogne, 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 Kristof Caerts about "Bonjour le Nouveau! Hello New user !".

Write your reply.

assistant: Bienvenue sur Doggy's BBS! Welcome on Doggy's BBS !
J'esp�re que vous appr�cierez ce bbs. N'oubliez pas de lire vos messages
ils sont importants. La messagerie est le meilleur moyen pour communiquer
avec pas mal de monde sur cette petite plan�te. Rejoignez-nous!
Ah oui, au fait, si vous �tes un faux utilisateur, ou vous �tes inscrit
sous un faux nom, ou avec une cle pirate, vous n'aurez pas d'acc�s
"enregistr�" � ce bbs.
Conclusion : les utilisateurs sympas trouveront ici de quoi se d�tendre,
une atmosph�re sympa, plein d'utilisateurs qui �changent des id�es, des
projets, de tout quoi. Je s�lectionne donc... comme un club priv�...
I hope you'll enjoy your connections here !
Don't forget to read your messages... it's full of important things
Message base is here full of connections with this small planet.. be part
of it, you'll enjoy it!
Oh yes, by the way, if you are a FAKE user, no joy for you.. you just
paid 6fb to Belgacom for nothing. I only upgrade user for which I'm 100%
certain of their identity and intentions... Michel Pirlot or Hubeaux, and
such guys are NOT welcome here, thus after the very very annoying behaviours
of such [censored] people, now, sorry, I'm becoming a bit strict.
I know, honnest people are always paying the price due to the unnacceptable
way of doing of such dishonnest guys.
I cannot afford to let anyone entering the system now, people already in are
though guys that want to communicate without being disturbed by such
annoying neirds.
Correct users are most welcome here, and will have a lot of fun here,
atmosphere is really friendly. Unsuitable people will not get anything for
them here, we don't want them.
Hasta la vista!
Jean-Michel Dossogne
the SysOp of Doggy's BBS