--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300015 Date: 06/01/96 From: FRANK MALCOLM Time: 09:39am \/To: STEVE BATSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Hint, hint... Hi, Steve. SB> FM> A TMenuItem doesn't *have* a ShowHint property, this is what my SB> FM> problemis. SB> I see your point, I never noticed this before. SB> FM> Thanks, Steve, but I've tried several (all I could think of) SB> FM> combinations of setting the ShowHint property, doing stuff in an SB> FM> Application.OnHint method, etc. Nothing works for me. SB> FM> I'm surprised that a TMenuItem has a Hint property but no ShowHint SB> FM> property. How does Borland expect that that hint will be used? SB> I'll have to look into this more. If I find something, I'll post it SB> here...if you find something, I hope you'll do the same. Sure will. Obviously you can use Application.OnHint to show the "long hint" in a status bar, but I thought it'd be nice to have the little yellow boxes pop up too. Regards, fIM. * * Ignorance we fix with knowledge-stupidity with liberalism --- * Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300016 Date: 06/01/96 From: FRANK MALCOLM Time: 09:53am \/To: GARY WEINFURTHER (Read 4 times) Subj: MEMMOND Hi, Gary. GW> GW>> It's available for freq here as MEMMND.ZIP. GW> FM> Wow. I think I *need* that. Anyone in zone 3 picked it up already? f GW> FM> not, what's the phone number of your board? GW> (810) 474-6366 in the U.S. Sorry, but downloads are not available on the GW> first call. MEMMOND is also available on CompuServe in the DELPHI forum. GW> You could also search the web for it. Thanks, Gary. I guess I won't call your board for it at this stage, an international call negotiating through sign-on and authorisation screens etc, then another to pick it up might be a bit much. I'll see if anyone in Zone 3 responds to say that they've got it already. Regards, fIM. * * Unless to thought is added will, Apollo is an imbecile. --- * Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300017 Date: 06/01/96 From: FRANK MALCOLM Time: 10:25am \/To: GARY WEINFURTHER (Read 5 times) Subj: Cancel that... Hi, Gary. GW> FM> According to the doco, a BitBtn with the Cancel property True should GW> FM> respond to pressing Esc by calling the OnClick method - it doesn't n GW> FM> this case. GW> It's always worked for me. Try making your About box a separate form. Yes, I'd intended to do that eventually. This was just a quick-and-dirty implementation so I could give the program to someone for comments. GW> There may be something else in your current form that's interfering. Good thought, I'll take a look at that. Regards, fIM. * * Love thy neighbour, but don't let her husband catch you --- * Origin: Pedants Inc. (3:711/934.24) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300018 Date: 06/02/96 From: DAN UGRIN Time: 04:24pm \/To: JACK URBANSKY (Read 6 times) Subj: Newsgroup JU> I'm shutting down my BBS soon and as a result, I will lose my JU> quick & easy access to Fido echomail. Is there a neswgroup(s) JU> for Delphi? Try these: alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi alt.lang.delphi comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components comp.lang.pascal.delphi.databases comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc The following list of web sites was posted by Berndt Gilbertsson last February. Hope these help. * Wild Thing Cool Delphi Stuff - http://www.teleport.com/~cwhite/wilddelphi.html * Coriolis Group Delphi Explorer - http://www.coriolis.com/coriolis/whatsnew/delphi.htm * The Delphi Connection WWW Site - http://www.pennant.com/delphi.html * Delphi OnLine Magazine - http://www.teleport.com/~sig/dol.html * Bibliography of Delphi Books & Articles - http://www.iscinc.com/dugbib.html * Grumpfish Borland Delphi Support - http://www.teleport.com/~grump/delphi.htm * Delphi Components - http://super.sonic.net/ann/delphi/max/ * C.I.U.P.K.C. Software Headquarters - http://www.webcom.com/~kilgalen/welcome.html * Window Watch: The Windows Magazine of the Internet - http://www.channel1.com/users/winwatch/WindowWatch.html * Delphi Station - http://www.teleport.com/~cwhite/wilddelphi.html * Delphi Hacker's Corner - http://www.it.kth.se/~ao/DHC/ * Delphi Online Magazine - http://www.teleport.com/~sig/dol.html * Delphi Connection (Online Magazine) - http://www.pennant.com/delphi.html * Delphi WWW Forum - http://www.pennant.com/delphi/hn/dconn.html * New York Delphi User Group - http://www.iscinc.com/nydug.html * Delphi Northbay SIG - http://super.sonic.net:80/delphisig/index.html * Delphi's Super Page (from Poland) - http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/~robert/delphi/ * City Zoo - http://www.mindspring.com/~cityzoo/cityzoo.html * StarTech Computer Services Delphi Components Page - http://www.NeoSoft.com/~startech/delphi/delphi.htm * SynchroniciTech Page on Delphi (includes Delphi CGI components)- http://super.sonic.net:80/ann/delphi/index.html * Preferred Solutions Ltd price drawing for Delphi Component - http://www.maui.net/~russf/ddraw.html * AppVision's Delphi Jump Center - http://www.win.net/~ingenuity/delphi.htm * Complete Solution's Delphi Information - http://webster.skypoint.net:80/members/zeta/delphi.html * Dave McDermitt's Delphi Destination - http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~drmcderm/delphi.html * Michael's Delphi Home-Page - http://linux.rz.fh-hannover.de/~holthoefer/delphi.html * Ander's Private Corner of the Web - http://www.it.kth.se/~ao/ * Salt Lake City Delphi Users Group - http://www.xmission.com/~uldata/delphi.html Dan --- InterEcho 1.18 * Origin: The Mega-ROM BBS of Whittier, CA (310) 944-2327 (1:103/604) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300019 Date: 06/02/96 From: ERIC SCHREIBER Time: 10:39pm \/To: EDDY PRAET (Read 4 times) Subj: Delphi RAM Requirements -=> Eddy Praet wrote with startling eloquence to Jacques Janssens <=- JJ> A Deplhi application runs on a 286 with at least 2MB Ram. EP> Ah ? Since when does Windows itself run on a 286 PC ??? :-) I think EP> you mean an 386SX, right ? My wife wrote a novel running Win3.1x and Word for Windows on a 286. It wasn't even remotely fast, but it was do-able. I'd hesitate to encourage running any Delphi apps on a 286, though - I find that they can sometimes be sluggish even on 486's. EEAS eric@kobayashi.com --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Aircrash Bureau Chicago 312-278-1195 33.6 (1:115/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300020 Date: 06/02/96 From: ERIC SCHREIBER Time: 10:39pm \/To: EDDY PRAET (Read 4 times) Subj: Barcode DLL -=> Eddy Praet wrote with startling eloquence to Jacques Janssens <=- EP> I just finished my first DLL-file in Delphi, a handy thing EP> if you wanted to print some labels with bar39-codes... EP> I thinking of releasing the DLL as shareware, but how am EP> I to begin such adventure ? Expand it to handle a variety of other barcode formats (which should be reasonably straightforward if you've already got one going) and you *will* have a good potential market. EEAS eric@kobayashi.com --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Aircrash Bureau Chicago 312-278-1195 33.6 (1:115/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA300021 Date: 06/02/96 From: ERIC SCHREIBER Time: 10:39pm \/To: STEVE BATSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Uses "unit" -=> Steve Batson wrote with startling eloquence to Bob Dunnell <=- SB> My point was that you could make SB> straight API calls or pull into your source only what you really SB> needed and probably get it even tighter. While I've never tried this with Delphi, my past experience BP 7 agrees with what you're saying. I tried both a 'uses' clause with a unit that had a set of routines, and actually putting all the routines directly in my code and not using 'uses' - the latter resulted in a smaller exe, though exact figures escape me. There was a time when it made sense to me to bum the code as much as possible, but with modern Windows programming, you've lost the battle of the bytes as soon as you start - might as well not sweat exe size anymore. EEAS eric@kobayashi.com --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Aircrash Bureau Chicago 312-278-1195 33.6 (1:115/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA400000 Date: 06/02/96 From: STEVE BATSON Time: 06:15pm \/To: JACK URBANSKY (Read 5 times) Subj: Newsgroup JU> I'm shutting down my BBS soon and as a result, I will lose my JU> quick & easy access to Fido echomail. Is there a neswgroup(s) JU> for Delphi? Jack, There is a few of them. I think Alt.pascal.delpi, or something like that...do some searches for Delphi, Some of the Delphi pages have links to them. 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: DA400001 Date: 06/03/96 From: BRYAN SMITH Time: 02:34pm \/To: GARY WEINFURTHER (Read 4 times) Subj: Uses "unit" On 01 Jun 96 Gary Weinfurther said to Bob Dunnell... GW> Delphi's linker is even smarter... it GW> removes not only unused units, but also unused procedures and methods. Are you sure ? The way that the most trivial program that uses a visual component jumps to at least 250k or so in size certainly creates the impression that the Turbo Pascal smart linker has become an extinct species. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Kingston, Canada (1:249/109.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: DA400002 Date: 06/03/96 From: STEVE BATSON Time: 04:32pm \/To: BOB DUNNELL (Read 4 times) Subj: Uses "unit" BD> Hmm...perhaps...then you look at other examples...there's always the BD> guythat optimizes until he's blue in the face, compiles, and it's the BD> same size or larger than the "loose" code. :( BD> I usually don't write Windows programs. I have one that I wrote BD> that reboots Windows 95 through the API (yeah, I know, pretty BD> unoriginal but it works), and no matter what I took out or left BD> in the uses clause it was still the same size. BD> My point being that perhaps sometimes it's better to devote time to BD> developing the substance of a program than endlessly searching for BD> theone-byte wonder. Obviously you don't want to be irresponsible BD> aboutthe code you put out and leave it grossly unoptimized, though. BD> That'snot nice either. I think there's a happy balance. I agree...the thread started because of comments about Delphi stuff being large. Again, I was pointing out that there are other ways of doing things in delphi. I personally am not going to worry about about the size of the exe once it has been trimmed down with normal measures. Anyone worried about a 200K windows program should look at the MicroSoft, Lotus or other WordProcessors, spreadsheets, etc. BD> With my DOS programs, I'd compile it without debug information and BD> thenrun an executable compressor (usually lzexe) on it. That would BD> notslow it down too much. I don't know of anything comparable for BD> Windows platforms, though... These programs just save a bit of diskspace, they don't save any on memory. Steve --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The Visual Programmer's Workshop - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21)