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system: You are Don Krause, 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 Jos Buitelaar about "Delphi or Visual C++".

They wrote:
JB>I am programming for about three years in Turbo Pascal (7.0). I want to
>program in Windows 95 and Windows NT.
>I don't know what is the best. Programming in Visual C++ or programming in
>Delphi.
JB>Is there somebody who can tell me the difference.

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assistant: Sure, programming with Delphi, is like Cold Beer, and great Pizza, VC++ is
like sticking an ice-pick up your nose, cause it feels so good when you quit!
=Don=
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 "One program visible".

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assistant: Hello All,
Sometimes when a (game, or 'multimedia; demonstration) program starts, the
whole screen gets black, en the only thing visible is the program running,
which is centered. The centering isn't so difficult, getting the screen size,
en setting the upperleft corner of the window. But how is the rest done?
(Getting the screen black, and no other program visible.)
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
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 "Delphi 2.0 & NT".

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assistant: Hello All,
Does Delphi 2.0 also run fine under Win NT (4.0)? If I run both Win95 and NT,
which is the best to install Delphi in?
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
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 "Automatic Scroll bars on a TForm".

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assistant: The scroll bars which may appear automatically on a form if the size is
reduced by the user are of type TControlScrollbar.  This type has no events,
so it is not possible to detect that the bar has been clicked.  What's more,
clicking these bars does not trigger the form's onclick handler.
Does anyone know how to detect such a click on a TControlScrollBar ?
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 Tommy Usher about "RE: DELPHI OR VISUAL C++".

They wrote:
TU>  On the other
TU> hand, a program written with a C/C++ compiler MIGHT be faster,

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assistant: On 20 Oct 96 10:16am, Tommy Usher wrote to Jos Buitelaar:
Delphi 2 is pretty highly optimized.  I don't think any C
compiler will beat it by any significant amount.
Jud McCranie  jud.mccranie@swsbbs.com
 * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW20178
system: You are Richard Lisi, 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 Greg.K@Glib.Org about "Untitled (fwd)".

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assistant: * Message forwarded by Richard Lisi via Telegard 3.02/mL
 * Originally posted in area Internet Email
      Original to : richard lisi
             From : POSTMASTER@glib.org
          Subject : Untitled
        Date/Time : Fri 18 Oct 1996  11:18a
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 Jos Buitelaar about "Delphi or Visual C++".

They wrote:
JB> Hello,I am programming for about three years in Turbo Pascal (7.0). I
JB> want to program in Windows 95 and Windows NT.I don't know what is the
JB> best. Programming in Visual C++ or programming in Delphi.Is there
JB> somebody who can tell me the difference.

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assistant: Salut Jos Buitelaar !
Dans un message de Jos Buitelaar dat� du 17 Oct 96  11:34:00 il �tait dit:
It depends on you skills and on what you intend to do. Device driver,
services, OCX and such low level programming is best done by Visual C/
C++. Client/server or even just ordinary applications or databases
front end are better done with Delphi.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
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 Matheas Manssen about "Delphi 2.0 & NT".

They wrote:
> Does Delphi 2.0 also run fine under Win NT (4.0)? If I run
> both Win95 and NT, which is the best to install Delphi in?

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assistant: I run Delphi 2 exclusively under NT 4.0. NT has always been a more solid
development environment.
Ron
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 Don Krause about "Delphi or Visual C++".

They wrote:
DK> Sure, programming with Delphi, is like Cold Beer, and great Pizza, VC++
DK> like sticking an ice-pick up your nose, cause it feels so good when you
DK> quit!

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assistant: Don Krause mentioned this to Jos Buitelaar:
is
This is an unwelcome post because it does not provide any useful information
and only serves as flame bait.  Please restrict your comments to real, useful
information.
                                ...Gary Weinfurther, DELPHI Moderator
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 Tommy Usher about "Hjelsberg Quit.".

They wrote:
TU> No, for me it is rather frightening.....  Since he is the original
TU> author of Turbo Pascal, it does not sound like Borland is doing as
TU> wellas hoped....

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assistant: Not to worry, Anders posted a message on the net explaining that he just got
tired and needed a change.  He also pointed out that he is quite confident
that he has left Delphi development in his second-in-command's capable hands.
What makes this interesting is that he posted this AFTER getting hired by
Microsoft.  His message implies continued growth through, at least, Delphi
4.5/5.  I'm beginning to agree with others that we really don't have so much
to worry about.
Derek
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 "Problems with TMemo.Seltext?".

They wrote:
GW> The problem is that SelText returns a string... which can only be up to
GW> 255 characters.  Instead, you will have to use GetTextLen and GetTextBuf
GW> to retreive the text to a buffer you allocate yourself, and SetText to
GW> assign the modified text to the control.

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assistant: Hello Gary,
donderdag 17 oktober 1996, Gary Weinfurther writes to Matheas Manssen:
Hmm, TMemo is even worse than I thougt.. I will look these methods up, and
try it. Thanks for your help.
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
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 "dBase & Delphi".

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assistant: Hi All,
Two questions
1.
Can I make my Delphi program create a dBase (III) file if it cannot find
one present ? Or must ther be a dBase/Paradox/etc file present in order to
be able to work with a tTable component ?
2.
In the Object inspector you must fill in an "source" for the DBNavigator
(or somthing like that).
Must this be of type tTable. I.o.a. can I use the DBNavigatoe and
DBeditfields (?) with an internal structure (array of records, that are
easy and fast to use in small custom-made databases).
C.U. later,
Bart Broersma
 * Wave Rider 1.20 [NR] *
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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 Abb Naklie about "Distributing Programs".

They wrote:
-=> Abb wrote with startling eloquence to All <=-
AN> Well, decided not to bother with 1.0 anymore and start with 2.0 and
AN> deleted Delphi 1. To my shock and horror, all these apps, even though
AN> they are EXE's suddenly don't work because the BDE is gone.
AN> There's nothing in any of the helps or manuals regarding
AN> distributing the BDE (unless I've missed it).
AN> One of the _main_ reasons I defected from Visual Basic was to get
AN> away with having to include a zillion <g> files when distributing
AN> them. But yet, unless I've done something wrong, it looks like perhaps
AN> I've been mislead.

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assistant: For database programs made with Delphi, you need the BDE to be present
for the programs to run. And, if the tables in your component use the
database (alias) property, the BDE must also be configured with those
aliases.
It's a pain.
Look for a text file called deploy.txt. That covers the essentials.
You've been partially misled. For non-database applications written in
Delphi you typically don't need to include anything but the .exe. There
are no runtime libraries required like there are with VB.
However, a database application that uses the BDE requires that the BDE
be distributed. In my opinion, this is the greatest weakness in Delphi.
If you want to distribute a database program you're looking at 2 disks
of BDE, with a footprint of several extra megs when installed. This is a
very bad situation for shareware, for example, where you depend upon
downloads and ease of (de)installation for revenue.
Luckily, Delphi is open enough in design that you have alternatives
from several third party companies. I strongly recommend one called
Apollo from SuccessWare. This is a replacement for the BDE that only
requires 300k of .dll files instead of the BDE's five megs. The Apollo
engine is easy to use, fast, and adds a great deal of xBase command
functionality as well. It's priced at about $150 or so - I can dig
up ordering info if you're interested.
EEAS
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 Lynn Weinfurther about "Running last proj automatically".

They wrote:
LW> I just installed Delphi 1 on a new computer from the Delphi 2 CD.  I
LW> can't remember and can't find how you tell Delphi to start up your
LW> previous project instead of a new one.  Any one remember?

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assistant: On 18 Oct 96 Lynn Weinfurther said to All...
If you do a SAVE before you exit, this should happen automatically.
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 Jos Buitelaar about "Delphi or Visual C++".

They wrote:
JB> I am programming for about three years in Turbo Pascal (7.0). I want
JB> to program in Windows 95 and Windows NT.
JB> I don't know what is the best. Programming in Visual C++ or
JB> programming in Delphi.

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assistant: On 17 Oct 96 Jos Buitelaar said to All...
If you are programming for yourself, I would suggest Delphi - with it, you
can make use of all of your hard-earned knowledge of Pascal.  But if future
employability is an issue, read the "programmer help wanted" ads. in major
newspapers in your country, and see what language knowledge the employers in
your area want in a programmer.
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 Ka'Rlis Gobleja about "When To Read .Ini Files?".

They wrote:
KG> Note.   The $J compiler directive allows the declaration of typed
KG> constants that can be modified. Typed constants declared in the
KG> default {$J-} state are read-only and cannot be modified.
KG> For new applications, use of
KG> the {$J+} state is not recommended.

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assistant: On 18 Oct 96 Ka'rlis Gobleja said to Gary Weinfurther...
We certainly need subroutine local variables whose values will persist from
one call to that subroutine to the next.  What does Borland suggest we do if
{$J+} is not advised ?
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 Jud Mccranie about "HJELSBERG QUIT.".

They wrote:
DB> Anders Hjelsberg (?) just quit Borland
JM> Isn't he Borland's long-time compiler writer?

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assistant: On 20 Oct 96 Jud McCranie said to Derek Benner...
Understand he was the Dane who INVENTED Turbo Pascal (not Pascal itself,
that was Swiss Nicholas Wirth).  Borland's ex-ceo Phillipe Kahn was just the
merchandiser.  Those of you who have come lately to Pascal may not
understand what a breakthrough product TP was.  Not only did it introduce
the concept of the IDE, it was also lightning fast, doing in a few seconds
what used to take my old Fortran compiler and ms linker 10 minutes or so on
a floppy-based 4.77 mHz 8088.  Imagine the improved speed of debugging, the
increase in productivity.  And all this in a .COM file of only 30K size !
Long may Anders' name be praised.
Sorry if I'm getting off-topic, Gary, but this guy deserves to be given the
credit he has earned but has never received.
system: You are Damien Guard, 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 Ole Almind Mortensen about "Re: Bmp and Ico in TRichEdit".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Ole Almind Mortensen to All <=-
OAM> Is it possible to use the clipboard to paste a bitmap or icon into a
OAM> TRichedit component? If yes then how?

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assistant: I belive you have to write your own OLE interface/handler for the Rich Edit
 control before this is possible.  Check out the Rich Edit Control reference
 in the Win32 help file.
 [)amien
system: You are Damien Guard, 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 Ken Petersen about "Re: Hiding an application".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Ken Petersen to Chris Mann <=-
KP> I did get it to work. Setting the form to visible did not solve it,
KP> but calling the Form.Hide after the ShowWindow call did the trick.
KP> Still I don't see the difference, but I'd guess Borland does.

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assistant: You may find that causes a flicker.  The best thing to do is go to the
 view project source option and just before where the application.run line
 put
   Application.ShowMainForm := False;
 [)amien
system: You are Damien Guard, 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 Files".

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assistant: I have lots of Delphi files available for download for FREQ from my BBS.
To obtain a list of Delphi files FREQ DELPHIFB.
Black Ice
+44-1481-727140 2:255/78  v.34
+44-1481-727141 2:255/119 v.FC
[)amien
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 "TOutline, but vertikal".

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assistant: Hello All,
Is there a component, which does the same as TOutline, but vertical? I mean a
component which shows the nodes as a tree.
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
system: You are Tommy Usher, 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 "Delphi 2.0 & NT".

They wrote:
MM>Does Delphi 2.0 also run fine under Win NT (4.0)? If I run both Win95 and
MM>which is the best to install Delphi in?

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assistant: NT
I can't speak from experience, but I believe it runs fine in both.  The
major issue in deciding which OS to use, are memory, and processor.  If
you have enough memory (32 MB) or are running a Pentium Pro, you should
consider NT.
system: You are Tommy Usher, 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: HJELSBERG QUIT.".

They wrote:
JM> DB> Anders Hjelsberg (?) just quit Borland to go to work for MicroSludge.
JM> DB> Isn't that interesting?
JM>Isn't he Borland's long-time compiler writer?  One of the few
JM>people still at Borland who knew anything?

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assistant: Uh, he wrote the ORIGINAL Turbo Pascal.  Whether his loss has an actual
effects, it has to be psychologically devastating.
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 Alexey Vekshin about "Not initialized for Network...".

They wrote:
AV> Replying to a message of Christopher di Armani to Jan Ferguson:
JF>>> I am having a problem with the first major database
JF>>> application I have written in only one respect. It runs
JF>>> FINE on the server of a lantastic network (v.5.0) using
JF>>> Windows for Workgroups v.3.11 but when I try to bring it up
JF>>> on the workstation I get the error message, "Error in
JF>>> BDEEngine...Not Initialized for accessing network files."
JF>>> This happens whether or not the server is running the
JF>>> application.
CdA>> I too have just run into this problem.  If you find out how
CdA>> to solve it, I'd _REALLY_ love to know.  I've beat myself
CdA>> up with this one for a while, and can't find anything that
CdA>> talks about it in the documentation, online or otherwise.
AV> As far as i can remember, lantastic is not supported by bde.
AV> Paradox Engine (previous vesion of bde/idapi) works fine with
AV> lantastic, but for some reason in bde it's impossible to share
AV> data on lantastic network. Try to use WfWg/W95 built-in network
AV> support or something else.

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assistant: Hello Alexey!
20 Oct 96 21:04, Alexey Vekshin wrote to Christopher di Armani:
I'm not running Lantastic though, I'm using Novell Netware Lite, and have the
same problem.   Any ideas for that?
                        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 Francisco Soria, 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 "OFERTA DE EMPLEO".

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assistant: =====================================================================
  URGENTE  URGENTE  URGENTE URGENTE  URGENTE  URGENTE URGENTE  URGENTE
  =====================================================================
  Necesito 2 personas. Para nuevo negocio de informatica.
  Es imprescindible amplios conocimientos de Hardware. Estando muy
  "al d�a" en las ultimas novedades.
  El trabajo es en Madrid preferible en la zona Este "Corredor del Henares".
  En principio pienso en formar una Sociedad con el animo de que todos
  estemos involucrados en el negocio. No descartando un contrato eventual.
  Eso si, personas con buen caracter, y sobre todo que sean muy trabajadores
          Podeis llamar al 909-141491 o al 909-249836 para concertar
          una entrevista.
                                   Saludos
... Catch the Blue Wave!
system: You are Trev Roydhouse, 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 "Re: Delphi 2.0 & NT".

They wrote:
> Does Delphi 2.0 also run fine under Win NT (4.0)?
> If I run both Win95 and NT, which is the best to install
> Delphi in?

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assistant: Yes.
This really depends on your hardware and configuration. If you have 32mb RAM
and a Pentium/686 CPU, then I'd go for NT.  Otherwise, I'd stick with Win95
which performs reasonably well with 16mb RAM and a 486 CPU.
TREV.
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 Brad Clarke about "Sub Main Equivelent".

They wrote:
BC> Is there an equivelent in Delphi, or should I place this
BC> code in the FormShow event of my main form?

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assistant: Brad Clarke wrote in a message to All:
No in the Form Create event.....
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 Ka'Rlis Gobleja about "When To Read .Ini Files?".

They wrote:
FP> const
FP>     FirstTime : Boolean = TRUE;
KG> This shouldn't work because:
KG> 1. You can't modify value of constants.
KG> 2. FirstTime must be global variable otherwise it will be
KG> always TRUE in this procedure.

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assistant: Ka'rlis Gobleja wrote in a message to Francois Piette:
OfCourse you can.......its declared as a boolean.....
On this you are right....
Greetz from limboland, Henk
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 Gary Weinfurther about "Delphi or Visual C++".

They wrote:
DK> Sure, programming with Delphi, is like Cold Beer, and great Pizza, VC++
DK> like sticking an ice-pick up your nose, cause it feels so good when you
DK> quit!
GW> This is an unwelcome post because it does not provide any useful
GW> information and only serves as flame bait.  Please restrict your
GW> comments to real, useful information.

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assistant: s
I dunno, I found it quite useful. <G>  (OK.  OK.  You're right, but just
visualize it!)
However, a more thorough discussion of Delph vs C++ capabilities/merits WOULD
have been more useful to a person trying to decide which environment to
use... Point to the Moderator!
(Now that ObModAppeasement has been made, I'd like to share that it is REAL
easy to get an eval copy of Optima++, the 'EASY' C++, if you are an author.
My copy is due Monday, so I'll be able to check out if it really does feel
more like Delphi/VB than like VC++.  I'll try to review the differences in a
couple of weeks.)
Derek (See I *can* write without flames.) Benner