--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00002 Date: 05/24/96 From: DAN UGRIN Time: 02:00pm \/To: WILLY JANSEN (Read 4 times) Subj: Dan Ugrin DU> Me too please. :) I'm using Delphi 1.0 at the moment. Be happy to DU> help you test your VCL 'n stuff. DU> Daniel R. Ugrin, 73622,1472 on Compu$erve WJ> Me too please. WJ> Willy Jansen You need to address your request to Derek Benner, not me. Dan --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0218 * Origin: The Target Range II 310/634-8993 (1:102/420) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00003 Date: 05/24/96 From: FRANCOIS PIETTE Time: 08:06pm \/To: PER-OLOV JERNBERG (Read 4 times) Subj: BIOS Access Salut Per-Olov Jernberg ! Dans un message de Per-Olov Jernberg dat du 21 May 96 21:27:44 il tait t: PJ> Can i use normal dos assembler in Delphi? I don't know what you call DOS Assembler, but you can use the Delphi in-line assembler to build protected mode assembler routines. PJ> Can i for PJ> example jump to vidoemode 13h (320x200x256) within delphi and do some PJ> drawing and then return to the Windows GUI ? ex: asm mov ax,13h int PJ> 10h end; repeat { do something } until keypressed { some kind of code PJ> to return to windows.. } You can't do it straight as it. In 16 bit Delphi, you have to use DPMI services (INT 31h) to call real mode interrupt from protected mode Delphi program. Only a subset of the interrupts are managed/simulated in protected mode. This is not a Delphi issue, but a Windows feature. In 32 bit Delphi (again it has nothing to do with Delphi, it is a Windows 95/NT feature), there is not direct support for 16 bit real mode call nor DPMI services. I have never done it, but in Win 95, you can use thunking to call a 16 bit DLL, and from this DLL call DPMI to call a real mode interrupt. Amitis, {-Francois Piette-} --- SvFido 1.32 * Origin: OverByte BBS (Embourg-Belgium) 32-41-651395 V-FAST (2:293/2202) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00004 Date: 05/23/96 From: FRANK MALCOLM Time: 04:07am \/To: ERIC SCHREIBER (Read 4 times) Subj: Hint, hint... Hi, Eric. ES> -=> Frank Malcolm wrote with startling eloquence to All <=- ES> FM> How on earth do you show a hint for a menu item? ES> Best bet is always to take apart some of the included examples (or even ES> better, just steal them outright :-) Yeah, I do that lots. :-) Or from the VCL source. ES> In your main form 'create' method, do something like this... ES> procedure TMainForm.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); ES> begin ES> Application.HintPause := 10; ES> Application.OnHint := ShowHint; ES> end; ES> Then create showhint as a private method like this... ES> procedure TMainForm.ShowHint(Sender: TObject); ES> begin ES> HintPanels.Caption := Application.Hint; ES> end; ES> That should display the hint text for your menus in your hintpanel. Also, a OK, but that's not what I want to do, at least if I understand your code properly. I don't want the hint to appear in a status-bar like thingy, which I assume is your HintPanels. I want it to appear in one of those little yellow boxes next to the control that the mouse is over. ES> an extra trick, you can have other hints show up in the hint panel as well. ES> For example, with a speed button hint property, you can put something ike ES> "Short hint|This is a really long hint". The pipe seperator will tell Delph ES> to use the Short Hint text in the little pop-up bubble, and the long hint ES> will be directed to the Application.Hint, and show up in your hint panel. Yeah, I knew about the pipe separator. What I want is to get the bit before the separator into a little yellow box. And, am I missing something obvious or is Borland brain-dead to provide a Hint property for menu items but no ShowHint property? Regards, fIM. * * Did you know that rats can't vomit? --- * Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00005 Date: 05/23/96 From: FRANK MALCOLM Time: 04:12am \/To: STEVE BATSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Hint, hint... Hi, Steve. SB> FM> How on earth do you show a hint for a menu item? They have the hint SB> FM> property, but not the ShowHint one! As they're not a TControl this is SB> FM> not surprising; what is surprising is that they have a Hint. How do SB> FM> youuse it? SB> Put the text for your hint in the "Hint" property and set the ShowHint to SB> true. A TMenuItem doesn't *have* a ShowHint property, this is what my problem is. SB> You can also set the Parent Form or Containers ShowHint property to SB> true if the controls ParentShowHint property is true (default). SB> This will turn on the ShowHint for all the components in the form or SB> container saving you time. Hope this helps. Thanks, Steve, but I've tried several (all I could think of) combinations of setting the ShowHint property, doing stuff in an Application.OnHint method, etc. Nothing works for me. I'm surprised that a TMenuItem has a Hint property but no ShowHint property. How does Borland expect that that hint will be used? Regards, fIM. * * Drive only if your brain can steer! --- * Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00006 Date: 05/22/96 From: PETER COLLIS Time: 09:47am \/To: STEVE BATSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Pascal Books While listening to Steve Batson Pete heard:Pascal Books G'day Steve GG> I'm using Virtual Pascal for OS/2, it also support the delphi GG> language extensions. Although the manual gives a definition of GG> the language I would like more information. So is there a way I GG> can get/buy that book PC> A Delphi for OS/2 now that's something that's needed, anyone PC> know if Borland has any plans to release such a thing, one can PC> only hope. SB> Given the limited number of OS/2 users compared to Windows SB> users, my guess is that it wouldn't be profitable enough for SB> Borland to create an OS/2 version of Delphi. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, People use windows because there's more readly available software, Software developers ignore OS/2 because everyone uses Windows, and before you ask no i'm not an OS/2 user. :-) -=Pete=- --- OMX/Blue Wave v2.12 * Origin: Gates of Hell (3:713/914.16) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00007 Date: 05/24/96 From: DEREK BENNER Time: 10:59pm \/To: WILLY JANSEN (Read 4 times) Subj: Gif/jpg support WJ> Willy Jansen Willy, As I requested of Dan Ugrin, do you have a Compuserve or America Online account? If not, how about a physical mailing address? Derek A Benner --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The Visual Programmer's Workshop - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00008 Date: 05/24/96 From: DEREK BENNER Time: 11:04pm \/To: TOMMY USHER (Read 4 times) Subj: Hate to. but.. Just read another message that claims that the magazine PC-aktive, a Dutch (?) mag, offered something called Delphi Lite which required three 1.44 meg floppies to hold. Since 3 1.44 meg floppies won't hold much of anything as far as Delphi 2.0 is concerned, this must be a VERY stripped version or is just a heavily stripped 1.X version. Considering the price of 1.X versions, why bother? As for the Borland dBase 5 for Windows, it got so creamed by Access in the marketplace that I imagine that's all the dB5 discs are good for-giveaways! Derek --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The Visual Programmer's Workshop - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00009 Date: 05/25/96 From: STEVE BATSON Time: 08:01am \/To: HAKAN KAYA (Read 4 times) Subj: Delphi RAM Requirements SB> tricks or feedback? HK> The configuration of the machine I had run Delphi 1.0: HK> i486sx-33 HK> 4 megs of RAM HK> Win95 HK> on a compressed drive with DriveSpace HK> Never met any problems. HK> Regards. HK> Hakan Interesting. I haven't heard of anyone running Win95 on less than 8. Steve --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The Visual Programmer's Workshop - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00010 Date: 05/25/96 From: STEVE BATSON Time: 08:05am \/To: TINEKE SCHOUTEN (Read 4 times) Subj: Hate to. but.. SB> There is no demo version of Delphi. You must purchase the product to use SB> it. TS> Yes there is. On the cover-CD of an (english?) magazine PC-Pro, their TS> March number, there was a Delphi Demo. Hmmm...I haven't seen anything like this in the US, you guys must be a harder sell over there ;) Steve --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The Visual Programmer's Workshop - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: D5V00011 Date: 05/25/96 From: STEVE BATSON Time: 08:10am \/To: TOMMY USHER (Read 4 times) Subj: Help TU> Okay, that's a complex question. If we are talking Delphi, TU> particularly2.0, I have NO problems. If we are talking Turbo TU> Pascal, I would TU> have preferred null-terminated strings, but can live with the TU> length-byte approach. BUT, if we are talking generic Pascal, I have TU> never been happy with the almost non-existent string handling present TU> there. In its purest form, it only provides for arrays of TU> characters,with no simple way of dealing with them as strings. (Uh, TU> after looking TU> at this a second time, I realize that I made a error here. I am TU> talkingabout strings, and you were asking about text files, as was TU> the originalwriter.....and I was thinking about string handling.) TU> Actually, I have TU> no problems with how it handles text files. Ok, I can agree with you on the string handling side, pascal is weak. But, it is quite simple to write routines that will parse or do whatever you need to a string so I never really worried much about that. I am sure there are a bunch of routines out there already if you don't want to write your own. Delphi seems to be pretty good though, I haven't had to much trouble finding what I need. Steve --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The Visual Programmer's Workshop - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21)