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system: You are Steven Read, 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 "Pascal books".

They wrote:
PC> -= Pete Replied to Gerard Gerritsen about: Pascal Books =-
PC> Well from what i'm lead to believe Borland has an object pascal
PC> for OS/2 so it struck me as strange that they hadn't taken the
PC> extra step and released a Delphi for OS/2

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assistant: On 06-09-96 (19:37)  PETER COLLIS  wrote to  GERARD GERRITSEN
Pete,
Bum info ;>)  Borland's Turbo Pascal was patched by an individual,
not by Borland.  Over the years the OS/2 users have tried to get
Borland to make a Pascal version for them, but no dice.  They even
tried petitions, to no avail.
Steve
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 George Dragicevic about "RegisterClasses".

They wrote:
GD> often get the error message on running "call to RegisterClass incorrect
GD> missing" Could someone please explain thiis error to me as I can find no
GD> reference to this error anywhere. TIA.

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assistant: Hello George!
Monday June 10 1996 16:17, George Dragicevic wrote to All:
or
You have deleted the following line at the end of your source code:
end.
The error message is inappropriate and stems from the early Delphi days where
this was not the only line at the end of a unit.
Jeroen - jeroenp@dragons.nest.nl - [100013,1443]
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 Matheas Manssen about "Format Write files".

They wrote:
MM> I'm searching for the format of Windows Write-files (*.wri). Other
MM> of tekst files are also welcome (Word, WP).

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assistant: Hi, Matheas.
ormats
The file formats used by Windows' accessories are in the Delphi Help
somewhere. Where? I don't know, I've accidentally browsed into them
once, can't for the life of me find where.
[later] Yes! Go into the API help, search for File formats. You get 8 or
10 (including *.WRI).
Regards, fIM
 * * Okay, thinner thighs for everybody.
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 Justin Marquez about "A question....".

They wrote:
JM>        In my Delphi applications, if I double-click on the little box in
JM> upper left corner of a form's window, the window closes, but not the
JM> application itself.   It still shows up in the "Task List", but I cannot
JM> show it if I switch to it.  I have provided controls which use the
JM> Application.Terminate method to completely shut down the app, but the
JM> may decide to hit the little box instead of using my "Exit" buttons.
JM>        Is there a way to control how the application uses the built-in
JM> window control box?

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assistant: Hi, Justin.
th
users
That's incredible! It sure doesn't do that here - Delphi 1.0, what are
you using? I can't even think how you would do that on purpose.
Can you post a minimum program which demonstrates that behaviour?
Regards, fIM.
 * * OS/2: Upgrades are free.  Who would PAY for it anyway?
system: You are Peter Collis, 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 Yves Van Hal about "Pascal for OS/2".

They wrote:
> I'm not a OS/2 user myself but it seems to me OS/2 lacks easy to
> use development tools.
YVH> The good development tools for OS/2 exist, only thing is they
YVH> are expensive. I had the occasion of attending a seminar on OO
YVH> development where IBM showed their VisualAge tools. I must say
YVH> these tools are quite understandable and easy to use. I had a
YVH> go with the Smalltalk version of it and found myself doing some
YVH> amazing stuff. The only real pitty is that they do not support
YVH> a Pascal language derivate, but then again IBM would not be IBM
YVH> ... ;-))

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assistant: -= Pete Replied to Yves Van Hal about: Pascal Books =-
G'day Yves
Looks like as with everything else IBM does they forget to tell
anyone. IBM seem to really fall down on the promotion side of their
products.
   -=Pete=-
system: You are Peter Collis, 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 Stuart Fox about "using functions/procedures from diff cod10:46:1606/17/96".

They wrote:
PC> You have to add function/procedure profiles to the interface
PC> section of the pas file.
sf> Ah... thanks very much for that - it's now working properly. :-)
sf> Although you didn't say it had to go after the uses line. :)
PC> function myFunction(s:string): string;
PC> procedure myProcedure(s:string);
sf> I had that okily dokily, except I was (previously) adding it to
sf> the wrong section - I was trying to copy some of methods the
sf> examples used.
sf> Also, another question.. :)  In the fmxutils.pas file (that
sf> comes with delphi 1.0), everything works under Win 3.1, but as
sf> soon as I compile it under NT, it doesn't like the
sf> DeleteFile(FileName);
sf> in the MoveFile() procedure; it complains that it is a PChar
sf> type and not a string - funny thing is though, even if I declare
sf> it as a String it still doesn't like it - the DeleteFile()'s
sf> parameter is of string type (according to the online help).
sf> Any ideas on this one? :)

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assistant: -= Pete Replied to stuart fox about: using functions/procedures from diff
code window =-
G'day stuart
Sorry i thought that sort of went without saying.
Easily done, i'm fairly new to this Delphi thing myself.
Sorry can't help you on that one, i'm just finding my way with Delphi
too.
   -=Pete=-
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 Justin Marquez about "A question....".

They wrote:
JM>        In my Delphi applications, if I double-click on the little box
JM> in the upper left corner of a form's window, the window closes, but
JM> not the application itself.   It still shows up in the "Task List",
JM> but I cannot show it if I switch to it.  I have provided controls
JM> which use the Application.Terminate method to completely shut down the
JM> app, but the users may decide to hit the little box instead of using
JM> my "Exit" buttons.

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assistant: * Replying to msg from Justin Marquez to All, on 15 Jun 96 13:00.
You can add the Application.Terminate 'statement' to the OnClose event for
the particular form.
Ooroo,
stuart
system: You are Yves Van Hal, 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:
> 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: Sorry to doubt this, but would it not be true that this depends on the
codepage you are using on your machine. I have not checked it, but I know
that when using accented characters you can have serious problems. I thought
there was even a difference between the charset Windows is using and the
codepage your machine is defined to work with.
I reread the explanation of this in Petzold's "programming windows 3.1". As
he states it, Windows is capable of working with two kinds of charsets. The
first being the OEM (or IBM-standard) and the second being ANSI. OEM charset
is used to support older applications and contain box characters. ANSI
charset is the one used for Windows programming. When exchanging text between
DOS and Windows, you would have to perform conversion. This can be found in
the above mentioned book from page 127 on.
Hasta la Modem,
Yves
system: You are Yves Van Hal, 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 Willy Jansen about "Error handling".

They wrote:
> 2) How can I detect or the Cancel button is pressed by a Open-Dialog?

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assistant: Hello Willy,
var
  check : boolean
begin
  check:=Opendialog1.execute;
  if check=true
  then
    { pressed the OK button }
    .....
  else
    { pressed the cancel button }
    ......
end;
OR
begin
  if Opendialog1.execute
  then
    { pressed the OK button }
    .....
  else
    { pressed the cancel button }
    ......
end;
More info can be found with the execute method ;-)
Hasta la Modem,
Yves
system: You are Yves Van Hal, 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 Willy Jansen about "Error handling".

They wrote:
> 1) how can I analyse an error in Delphi. In Visual Basic was that very
> simple.
>    If Err = 13 then ...
>    e.g. -  Delphi gives an error when he can't find the file you were
> refering
> to.
>         -  ...

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assistant: Hello Willy,
You must use the try ... finally construction. With the try statement also
comes the except clause.
Hasta la Modem,
Yves
system: You are Yves Van Hal, 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 "WRITE format".

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assistant: Hi
I think I deleted a message a bit too fast, so here goes my answer for the
person looking for the *.WRI format.
Open the API help and go to the file formats section. It is all explained
there.
Belgian Greetings,
Yves
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 Matheas Manssen about "Programs: which language?".

They wrote:
MM> What languages where used to create Word for Windows, Wordperfect, Lotus
MM> 1-2-3?

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assistant: Matheas Manssen mentioned this to All:
This is off-topic.  Please stick to discussing Delphi.
                                ...Gary Weinfurther, DELPHI Moderator
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 Frank Malcolm about "A question....".

They wrote:
JM> upper left corner of a form's window, the window closes, but not the
JM> application itself.   It still shows up in the "Task List", but I cannot
JM> show it if I switch to it.  I have provided controls which use the
JM> Application.Terminate method to completely shut down the app, but the
JM>  JM>users
JM> may decide to hit the little box instead of using my "Exit" buttons.
JM>        Is there a way to control how the application uses the built-in
JM> window control box?
FM> That's incredible! It sure doesn't do that here - Delphi 1.0, what are
FM> you using? I can't even think how you would do that on purpose.
FM> Can you post a minimum program which demonstrates that behaviour?

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assistant: My application uses 7 or 8 forms, but I don't think that is of any
importance in the discussion at hand.  In testing the program (while running
it in Delphi 1.01), I noticed that if I closed the app by using the "system
menu control" in the upper left corner of all the windowed forms that when I
returned to the Delphi Run menu drop-down that it appeared that the program
was still active ("Run" item grayed out, and "Reset" item active).  I tried
it by testing the program as a standalone Windows app (outside of Delphi) and
used the "Task List" to inspect for the program after double-clicking the
control box.  It was still there, and I could not switch to it.  Apparent
behavior was that the Window closed and since doing so did not cause any oher
windows to be opened, the program was still active but without ANY windows
open.  I was able to close it using the Task List option for terminating an
application.
    As far as I know, I didn't explicitly do anything to make it behave like
that.  I may have inadvertently set something to make it act like that, since
I am pretty new to Delphi, but I don't think I have done so.
   I have since modified the program so as to not display the system menu
control box.  Stuart Fox had a good suggestion, too, that I have the On
Close... event to invoke Application.Terminate.  That won't work in my case
because I need for the application to close each window before going to the
next, etc.   Using the Application.Terminate method would shut down my
program before the user had completed his run!
   Perhaps someone else could try closing a single open form with the control
box and report the results?
Justin Marquez
Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
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 Frank Malcom about "a question....".

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assistant: Frank,
I think I can define the behavior now.
In an app which:
  1) Has more than one form
  2) Where only one form is opened at a time
  On all forms (EXCEPT the initially open form) use of the
  "system menu control" to close the open form leaves the
  program running with no open forms.
(I think I've discovered how to build a Windows' "TSR" program!)
Justin Marquez
Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
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 John Van about "TTable across forms".

They wrote:
JV> I have a program has a section with two different forms. On form A it
JV> hasa TDatasource and TTable objects. When a particular event is
JV> fired the second form is called up. This second form needs to be able
JV> to access the TTable from the previous form. What is the best way to
JV> go about this?
JV> Is inheriting the second form from form A the best way,
JV> if it is possible at all.

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assistant: Salut John Van Nieuwkerk !
You can put all your TTAble objects on the same form, may be a form
wich will never be sown. Then in each form you d�clare un public
member of type TTable (do not drop a TTable object on the form !).
When the OnShow event for the main form is fired for the first time,
you can assign the main TTable object to every other form needing it.
In order to assign this only once, you can use a const variable like
this:
procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
const
    FirstTime : Boolean = TRUE
begin
    if FirstTime then begin
        FirstTime    := FALSE;
        Form1.Table1 := TableForm.Table1;
        Form2.Table1 := TableForm.Table1;
    end;
end;
This example assume that Form1 is the mainform, the actual TTable
object is located on TableForm and needed in both Form1 and Form2.
Definitely not the solution.
BTW, Inheriting forms is possible in Delphi 1.0 and easy in Delphi 2.0.
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 Bryan Smith about "Format Write files".

They wrote:
BS> You can find this in Tom Swan's "Inside Windows File Formats", Sams
BS> Publishing, 1993.

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assistant: Hello Bryan,
dinsdag 18 juni 1996, Bryan Smith writes to Matheas Manssen:
[.wri format]
Thanks, perhaps I can find it in some bookshop.
CYa,
Matheas (M.S.L.F.Manssen@wing.rug.nl)
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 Abb Naklie about "Re: Divide by 0 Error".

They wrote:
AN> Yup. I even installed it on my other machine right next to me here
AN> (which doesn't have Window 95) - same thing - put anything on a form,
AN> hit the run
AN> button (or whatever you want to call it), hit Pause not close) and
AN> tada - divide by zero error. Oh well, I'll just have to learn to
AN> "close" a form and go back into design mode.
AN> Say, you never did tell me where the files for your book that I
AN> bought can be found on the Internet. I confess, I haven't really
AN> looked hard <g>.
AN> Perhaps it's better this way (from a learning point of view - I can't
AN> cheat <g>).

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assistant: Oops! I just tried it and it did do the same thing. Well, I guess Borland
owes us a fix :)
Well, typing things in does make it a better learning experience <G>, but I
will give the URL to my web site so you can get the file (I have a pointer to
the link).
http://www.midtown.net/~sbatson/visual.htm
Steve
system: You are Bob Dunnell, 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 Justin Marquez about "A Question....".

They wrote:
JM> 1) Has more than one form
JM> 2) Where only one form is opened at a time
JM>
JM> On all forms (EXCEPT the initially open form) use of the
JM> "system menu control" to close the open form leaves the
JM> program running with no open forms.

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assistant: If only one is open at a time, did you forget to re-open one when you
close one?
You can't hide or close a form and then expect it to reappear
automatically when you close the one that came after it.
The system menu box does what it's supposed to -- it closes the form.
However, on that form's Close property, you should add something that
reopens whichever form should be there when that one closes normally.
... rtfm (314) 843-1855
***
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system: You are Jacques Janssens, 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 "Delphi RAM Requirements".

They wrote:
TU> Ah!  Now that's an idea.  I am currently hoping to come into some
TU> money
TU> by the end of the summer (my inheritance) and my plans are to build a
TU> similar system.  But I am also hoping to get a laptop, and have seen
TU> a
TU> few advertised for dirt cheap, but they are usually smaller systems
TU> like
TU> you have.  Unfortunately, I do not currently have a copy of the
TU> Primer
TU> edition....  Apparently, they only released it in Europe (though a
TU> few
TU> copies probably trickled over in magazine CD-ROMs).  I guess I could
TU> ask
TU> at the local bookstore.  Maybe one of their customers has a copy.

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assistant: Hallo Tommy,
Indeed, it's possible on a 386SX with 4MB Ram, but i've ordered a new laptop
(Texas Instruments Extensa) with most features of a desktop.
A resolution of 640x480 is not easy to work with in Delphi, so the new one
as
800x600 on an 11.3 inch screen. That's a lot easier.
I hope you can find a copy of the Primer Edition.
If not, it's allways possible to send you a copy of the 4 disks.
(if that's legal of course :-)
Greetings
Jacques Janssens
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 Justin Marquez about "a question....".

They wrote:
JM> In an app which:
JM>   1) Has more than one form
JM>   2) Where only one form is opened at a time

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assistant: On 21 Jun 96 Justin Marquez said to Frank Malcom...
How do you do that ?  I thought that MainForm.Close was equivalent to
Application.Terminate.
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 Francois Piette about "Hello World".

They wrote:
BS> Thanks to Francois Piette for his "Hello World" post of 07 Jun 96. It
BS> made you think.
FP> I am glad you appreciated my contribution...

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assistant: On 13 Jun 96 Francois Piette said to Bryan Smith...
I discovered that Delphi will not put an icon into a minimal program of this
type, even though you specify one in Delphi's Options|Project.  I had
thought that even a tiny Windows program of this type could have
"resources", but I guess it is not so.  Do you have any ideas as to which
library brings in the ability to include icon resources ?  Perhaps holding
an icon is a property of the main form, and we don't have a form here.
Of course, you can add the icon after compiling, by use of a resource editor
such as BPW's.  But it is a pain to have to repeat that step after each new
compilation.
system: You are Peter Collis, 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 "Format Write files".

They wrote:
MM> I'm searching for the format of Windows Write-files (*.wri).
MM> Other formats of tekst files are also welcome (Word, WP).
FM> The file formats used by Windows' accessories are in the Delphi
FM> Help somewhere. Where? I don't know, I've accidentally browsed
FM> into them once, can't for the life of me find where.
FM> [later] Yes! Go into the API help, search for File formats. You
FM> get 8 or 10 (including *.WRI).

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assistant: -= Pete Replied to Frank Malcolm about: Format Write files =-
G'day Frank
That's handy to know, i'll note that down.
   -=Pete=-