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system: You are Abdunnaser Althobity, 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 "open a web page - Second time !".

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assistant: Hi all folks there !
   Sorry for this second post for the same tjing,
I've tried "ShellExecute" to open a web page but it doesn't work, I
think I need to call a function inside URL.DLL but I don't know how
neither the name/parameters of the function.  Please help !
Note : I think that opening a web page by  Start/Run ( typing
http://www.foosite.com in the taskbar ) is not functioning by default in
Win95, I mean it's not native in the  system but this is a feature the
user will get if he did install MS Plus in his machine.. am I right ?
                                                Yours
                                         Abdunnaser Althobity
                                           asaeed@cclub.org
system: You are Larry Cooke, 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 "Hot key focus when minimized.".

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assistant: Hello!
 I have a program I wrote, with Delphi of course, that won't come into
 focus when I press the hot keys assigned to it when minimized.  For
 example, I have Alt-Ctl-D set to load Delphi and when I press this
 combination of keys, Delphi comes into focus whether it's minimized or
 not - my program won't.  :-(
 I'm new to Delphi and Windows programming for that matter, and along
 the way I've been experimenting with the various settings for the form
 properties.  I suspect I've set something to cause this problem, but I
 have yet to figure it out.  If anyone can shed some light on this I'd
 greatly appreciate it.  I'm doing this under NT 4.0 Workstation if it
 matters.
 Thanks!
 Larry
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 All about "Delphi 4".

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assistant: Has anyone heard anything about Delphi 4? I know it's comming, but I am
not on the beta program this time, so I don't know what's going on with
it. Actually, it seems a bit more quiet this time around that the last
two releases.
Steve Batson
http://www.bat-soft.com
steve@bat-soft.com
BTW, Gary, I am still around, just haven't been able to get in here as
much.
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 Steve Batson about "Delphi 4".

They wrote:
SB> Has anyone heard anything about Delphi 4? I know it's
SB> comming, but I am not on the beta program this time, so I
SB> don't know what's going on with it. Actually, it seems a bit
SB> more quiet this time around that the last two releases.

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assistant: Steve Batson wrote in a message to All:
I havevn't heard an specifics.  I was on Borland's web site the other day and
completed there survey.  They are interested in what people like/dislike with
2.0/3.0.  What things would people like to see added, yata yata yata.
Thanks,
           Ryan
system: You are S�Ren W Nielsen, 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 "icons".

They wrote:
BK> When I create a shortcut for a program, sometimes I can choose between
BK> various icons which all are part of the program (exp. Internet Explorer
BK> from Microsoft and Internet Mail and/or News from Microsoft).
BK> How can I achieve this in v3.0 of Delphi (Client/Server)?!

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assistant: Hello Bob �|:=)
12-Mar-98, Bob Kersten Wrote to All
           ABOUT: icons
 Same way as in other shortcuts. Press right mouse button on shortcut
 choose Change Icon - Search (search for delphi32.exe in Borland\Delphi3\BIN)
 choose the icon You want to use. This kan be done from which .DLL,.EXE
 file You want to use.
                        Bye - Bye
                   -=� S W Nielsen �=-
                    Email : swn@danbbs.dk
system: You are Greg Maclellan, 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 "EConvertError".

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assistant: how do you pick up the EConvertError, for example after running Strtoint?
what would i do here:
procedure tForm1.GetData;
var i:integer;
begin
  i := strtoint(edit1.text);
  if <check for econverterror> then label1.caption := 'Invalid number!'
  else begin
    ...
  end;
end;
or does it need to be handled with something like
procedure tform1.error; message EconvertError;
? I dont really know much about this windows message/error crap yet :)
thanks for any help..
ttyl, greg
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 Bob Kersten about "Re: ListView item invisible".

They wrote:
BK> I'm using a TListView in my Delphi 3.0 program, and I have a problem
BK> it. When I'm done reading all the items  (and subitems) in the ListView,
BK> an item will be selected and focused, but it's not visible. I must
BK> down, using the scrollbar, to make the item visible. :-(

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assistant: Hej Bob!
Mandag 09. Marts 1998 kl.20:20 skrev Bob Kersten til All:
ith
croll
You might want to use Listview_EnsureVisible
You have to Add CommCtrl to the Uses part.
  Mvh. Ole, Primeware
    HTTP://www.nightcall.dk/primeware/
    E-Mail: primeware@nightcall.dk
system: You are Steve Rogers, 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 Maclellan about "EConvertError".

They wrote:
GM>how do you pick up the EConvertError, for example after running Strtoint?
GM>what would i do here:
GM>procedure tForm1.GetData;
>var i:integer;
>begin
>  i := strtoint(edit1.text);
>  if <check for econverterror> then label1.caption := 'Invalid number!'
>  else begin
>    ...
>  end;
>end;

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assistant: You need to use Delphi's exception handler (see the dox about "try"):
  try
    i := strtoint(edit1.text);
  except on
    EConvertError do
      label1.caption := 'Invalid number!';
  end;
system: You are Bryan Smith, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Batson about "Delphi 4".

They wrote:
SB> Has anyone heard anything about Delphi 4? I know it's comming, but I
SB> am not on the beta program this time, so I don't know what's going on
SB> with it.

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assistant: On 15 Mar 98 Steve Batson said to All...
It will be interesting to see what they can add to Delphi 3 that people will
pay money for. With Internet connectivity already in place, it's going to be
hard to convince the "buy every second release" gang to shell out.
system: You are Carlos Sanchez Garcia, 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 Maclellan about "EConvertError".

They wrote:
GM> how do you pick up the EConvertError, for example after running
GM> Strtoint?

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assistant: Hi Greg!
Mr. Greg MacLellan wrote to Mr. All:
    EconvertError is not a message, but a exception, so you must get  it with
the try/except structure:
    try
     i := StrToInt(Edit1.Text);
    except
     on EConvertError do Application.MessageBox('Wrong value.','Error',$30);
    end;
    The program tries to run the part between try/except and if any exception
occurs then it runs the except part depending on the type of exception.
 See you :)
system: You are Greg Maclellan, 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 "EConvertError".

They wrote:
GM> how do you pick up the EConvertError, for example
GM> after running Strtoint?
GW> Read up on exception handling.

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assistant: ok, thanks alot. i've been learning delphi at school pretty much on my own
(my teacher is a few variables short of a compiler shall we say) without the
help file (until the day before march break) so, :)
thanks again..
ttyl, gregs
system: You are Greg Maclellan, 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 Carlos Sanchez Garcia about "EConvertError".

They wrote:
CSG>     EconvertError is not a message, but a exception,
CSG> so you must get  it with the try/except structure:
CSG>     The program tries to run the part between
CSG> try/except and if any exception occurs then it runs
CSG> the except part depending on the type of exception.

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assistant: ok, thanks :) thanks to Steve Rogers as well for the help..
ttyl, greg
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 "Installing new component: problem".

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assistant: Hi all,
I use Delphi I,
When I want to install a new componet, I seem to be unable to add a bitmap
for the give component.
I do as the manual says:
- Make a resourcefile with same name as unit.
- Add 24*24 pixel bitmap for each component.
-  Give bitmaps the name of the component (e.g. TMyPanel)
- Include a {$R *.RES}
- Compile the whole thing and add it to the component library.
All I get is a default bitmap on the 'samples' palet (where I installed the
new component), my bitmap is nowhere to be seen.
Anyone got some suggestions ?
Hope to hear from you,
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 "Installing new component: problem".

They wrote:
BB> All I get is a default bitmap on the 'samples' palet (where
BB> I installed the  new component), my bitmap is nowhere to be
BB> seen.

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assistant: Bart Broersma wrote in a message to All:
I am not sure if I am totally right here.  I'm sure someone will correct me.
I think the .res file should have the same name as the unit itself.  Its
extenstion should be changed to .dcr though.
Thanks,
       Ryan
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 Andrew Nguyen about "DROP".

They wrote:
AN> DROP

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assistant: Hi Andrew,
What are you trying to say here, Andrew?
Bye Bye,
  Bob.
system: You are Jon Hunt, 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 "FileSize".

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assistant: Jon Hunt starts a new thread...
I understand that FileSize and FilePos cannot be used on textfiles.  Is
there another way to find the number of lines in a text file?  I know I
could Readln it, and count how many times I do it, but is there a
quicker way?
Yours sincerely,
Jon
system: You are Abdunnaser Althobity, 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 "Disabling keys combinations".

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assistant: Hi all there,
   Can any one help me by code how can I disable 3 keys combination (
like the system used Ctrl+Alt+Del ), I have seen the code in Delphi 2
sample code for the event KeyDown but it was for only 2 keys.  I've
tried to make a one for 3 keys but I fails, pls. help .
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 Ryan Potts about "Delphi 4".

They wrote:
-> I havevn't heard an specifics.  I was on Borland's web site the
-> other day and completed there survey.  They are interested in what
-> people like/dislike with 2.0/3.0.  What things would people like to
-> see added, yata yata yata.

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assistant: I haven't seriously looked around their web site recently, been to busy.
I guess I should provide some feedback if they are asking...though, the
product is pretty good right now.
Steve BatsonSteve Batson
http://www.bat-soft.com
steve@bat-soft.com
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 Bryan Smith about "Delphi 4".

They wrote:
-> It will be interesting to see what they can add to Delphi 3 that
-> people will pay money for. With Internet connectivity already in
-> place, it's going to be hard to convince the "buy every second
-> release" gang to shell out.

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assistant: I agree...they will really need to spice it up alot to convince me to
upgrade this time. Delphi 3 is quite capable.
Steve Batson
http://www.bat-soft.com
steve@bat-soft.com
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 Emil Hansen about "FileSize".

They wrote:
EH> Can't it be done by declaring a file of string, and then
EH> testing filesize?

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assistant: Emil Hansen wrote in a message to All:
no.  String by itself is an open ended size (unknown).  You have to say
string[{some integer number}] to specify a size.
How large are the text files in question.  I no it is cumbersome to code what
it is you are wanting, but if the text files aren't too large it shouldn't
take the computer more than a few milliseconds to determine the size.
Thanks,
       Ryan
system: You are Abdunnaser Althobity, 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 a cursor".

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assistant: I want to load a cursor when the user's mouse is over a specific label
what should I do ? I have did the following and I don't know what's next
 :
1- I've created my cursor using the Image Editor
2- I have sayed {$R mycursor.res}
3- The executable now have the cursor inside but I don't know where
   exactly does it resides inside my EXE ??
4- I did try LoadCursor but it didn't work for me .
please help ....
      Yours
                   Abdunnaser Althobaity
       asaeed@cclub.org
system: You are Thamir Al-Ghaslan, 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 "decrease values.".

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assistant: i've got a database field with a numric value, what is the syntax to
decrease the value by N?
thanks in advnace.
system: You are Emil Hansen, 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 Ryan Potts about "FileSize".

They wrote:
RP> no.  String by itself is an open ended size (unknown).  You
RP> have to say string[{some integer number}] to specify a size.
RP> (...) but if the text files aren't too large it shouldn't
RP> take the computer more than a few milliseconds to determine
RP> the size.

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assistant: Hej Ryan!
Yes, you are right. I just tested it, and it did not work. However, if you
(in pascal) write a file of records, where each record contains a string, you
can get the number of lines by filesize (as far as I know). Unfortunately,
the format of such files differ from the standard canonical text-format.
(i.e. unusable here)
Indeed.
/Emil
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 Emil Hansen about "FileSize".

They wrote:
EH> However, if you (in pascal) write a file of records, where
EH> each record contains a string, you can get the number of
EH> lines by filesize (as far as I know). Unfortunately, the

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assistant: Emil Hansen wrote in a message to Ryan Potts:
type
   MyRecord = record
                s1,
                s2,
                s3   : string;
   end;
The above will not compile under D2 or D3.  String is an unknown length.  The
above would work if it were string[255] or perhaps if an array of char were
used.
Thanks,
       Ryan
system: You are Alexey Frolov, 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 Thamir Al-Ghaslan about "Re: decrease values.".

They wrote:
TA> i've got a database field with a numric value, what is the syntax to
TA> decrease the value by N?
TA> thanks in advnace.

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assistant: Hello Thamir!
   Quoting message from  Thamir Al-Ghaslan to All  (29/03/98 at 19:19)
Like this:
 YourField.AsInteger := YourField.AsInteger - N;
Don't forget to call
yourtable.edit;
system: You are Jeroen Pluimers, 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".

They wrote:
> I was kind of hoping to be ushered toward a File name I could locate
> which would do what I need.  (Produce 32 bit CRC's that are compatible
> With PKZIP's output).

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assistant: Hello Bob!
Saturday March 28 1998 15:41, Bob Kersten wrote to All:
From SWAG:
Contributor: SWAG SUPPORT TEAM
{
  I snagged this of this echo sometime ago.  It does CRC32
 using only TP With the help of a precalculated table.
 It does procduce CRC32 values that are the same as PKZIP and ARJ.
system: You are Alexey Frolov, 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 Jon Hunt about "Re: FileSize".

They wrote:
JH> Jon Hunt starts a new thread...
JH> I understand that FileSize and FilePos cannot be used on textfiles.  Is
JH> there another way to find the number of lines in a text file?  I know I
JH> could Readln it, and count how many times I do it, but is there a
JH> quicker way?

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assistant: Hello Jon!
   Quoting message from  Jon Hunt to All  (25/03/98 at 22:59)
Unfortunatelly not.
 Anywhere you should read all of bytes  in the file to calculate number of
lines. Thus, the only way to improve speed is to read faster. For example you
can read it block by block (using Blockread procedure) and note how many '0D
0A' bytes combination you'll find while reading. The number of combinations
will be equalent to the number of lines in the file.
system: You are Emil Hansen, 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 "FileSize".

They wrote:
JH> Jon Hunt starts a new thread...
JH> I understand that FileSize and FilePos cannot be used on
JH> textfiles.  Is there another way to find the number of lines
JH> in a text file?  I know I could Readln it, and count how many
JH> times I do it, but is there a quicker way?

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assistant: Hej All!
Can't it be done by declaring a file of string, and then testing filesize?
/Emil
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 Thamir Al-Ghaslan about "decrease values.".

They wrote:
TA> i've got a database field with a numric value, what is the syntax to
TA> decrease the value by N?

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assistant: Tach Thamir!
am 29 Mar 98 um 19:19:00 schrieb Thamir Al-Ghaslan an All:
field := field - N;
Since it is a database field, it is a variant, so you can't use DEC( x, n ).
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Carlos Sanchez Garcia, 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 Mika Rantanen about "DirectX".

They wrote:
MR> How can I use DirectX in my Delphi 3?

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assistant: Hi Mika!
Mr. Mika Rantanen wrote to Mr. All:
    If you want to do it easy, check this:
    http://www.ex.ac.uk/~PMBearne/DGC.html
 See you :)
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 Mark Lewis about "CRC-32 function".

They wrote:
ml> why convert this C code? why not just use the PASCAL version? ;-)
ml> if you have mark may's MKSM106 archive, you already have the code.
ml> if you have the second release of the JAMAPI [..]

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assistant: Hello mark,
Because I don't have any Pascal version.  :-)
I just want a function that calculates the CRC-32 value of a given string,
like the prototype below:
function CalcCRC32 (InString : String) : LongInt;
// pre : True;
// post: CalcCRC32 := <the CRC32 value of InString>
I've picked that one up from a local BBS,  but it didn't satisfy my needs.
The way of calculating the CRC32 is far too complicated. If you happen to
have some simple routines for calculating CRC32 values, please post them.
IS there a second release of the JAMAPI?!  :-)
De mazzels,
Bob Kersten.
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 Ryan Potts about "CRC-32 function".

They wrote:
BK>> It's a function which calculates CRC-32 values [..]
RP>    Here is an attempt to answer your question. I don't think it is
RP> 100% right, but think it will get you started.
RP> I know this is not a correct solution.  I am not a C expert.

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assistant: Hallo Ryan,
Thank you very much, Ryan.
Now I know what the original C++ function actually does (XOR and AND), but
your version calculates other CRC values than, for instance,  the GoldED MSG
Editor.
For instance, the CRC32 value of "Bob Kersten" (read from the .JDX file,
which is part of a JAM messagebase)  is -39330695,  which differs from the
value your routine delivers: 1776259690.  :-(
Neither am I, that's why I posted my original message  :-)
I've got an answer in the international PASCAL conference, but that didn't
help me much either  (see my previous post in this conference).  I hope
someone will be able to give me such a function or procedure soon.
De mazzels,
Bob Kersten.