--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBR00002 Date: 07/22/97 From: JUD MCCRANIE Time: 02:31am \/To: JEROEN PLUIMERS (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: FUTURE OF DELPHI JP> My point is that the WIntel platform has built up such a momentum that JP> it will be tough to replace. In 1999 Intel is abandoning the x86 archeture with the 64-bit "Merced" CPU. Sometime after that, Miscrosoft is releasing an entirely new OS for it (otherwise it has to do emulation, which is very inefficient). Miscrosoft always wants to screw other software companies, so they're going to make it very difficult for them (and MS gets years of head start developing apps for the new OS). Jud McCranie jud.mccranie@camcat.com ... The ease of Pascal with the power of Pascal. * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW20178 --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 5 * Origin: Riverdale, Ga (1:133/9024) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBR00003 Date: 07/21/97 From: GARY WEINFURTHER Time: 08:48am \/To: JUD MCCRANIE (Read 0 times) Subj: TITLE BAR IN D3 Jud McCranie mentioned this to Gary Weinfurther: JM> I really have a problem that at least 3 windows (Object JM> inspector, allignment pallete, and project manager) have title JM> bars that are extremely small vertically - just a few pixels. JM> Am I the only one that has this problem? I think they're designed to be that way. You can try changing your desktop appearance to alter all such windows, but I don't think Delphi allows you to change those specifically. ...Gary --- GoldED 2.41 * Origin: Nobody expects the Flying Circus BBS! (1:2410/905) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBS00000 Date: 07/22/97 From: JUD MCCRANIE Time: 01:04pm \/To: GARY WEINFURTHER (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: TITLE BAR IN D3 JM>> I really have a problem that at least 3 windows (Object JM>> inspector, alignment pallette, and project manager) have title JM>> bars that are extremely small vertically - just a few pixels. JM>> Am I the only one that has this problem? GW> I think they're designed to be that way. You can try changing your GW> desktop appearance to alter all such windows, but I don't think Delphi GW> allows you to change those specifically. But the manual shows them at normal size. For instance, see the Object Inspector windows on 2-1 and 2-3 of the D3 user's guide. The title bar is about the same height as the box below it. On my system, it is 1/2 that size. The font is so small that I wouldn't be able to read the words if I didn't know what they were supposed to be. And the close button is very small too. Jud McCranie jud.mccranie@camcat.com Jud McCranie jud.mccranie@camcat.com ... The ease of Pascal with the power of Pascal. * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW20178 --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 5 * Origin: Riverdale, Ga (1:133/9024) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBS00001 Date: 07/22/97 From: GARY WEINFURTHER Time: 08:58am \/To: JUD MCCRANIE (Read 0 times) Subj: FUTURE OF DELPHI Jud McCranie mentioned this to Jeroen Pluimers: JM> In 1999 Intel is abandoning the x86 archeture with the 64-bit JM> "Merced" CPU. Sometime after that, Miscrosoft is releasing an JM> entirely new OS for it (otherwise it has to do emulation, which JM> is very inefficient). Miscrosoft always wants to screw other JM> software companies, so they're going to make it very difficult JM> for them (and MS gets years of head start developing apps for JM> the new OS). Okay, this is off-topic. Let's keep the discussion to Delphi, okay? Thanks. ...Gary Weinfurther, DELPHI Moderator --- GoldED 2.41 * Origin: The Flying Circus BBS, Farmington Hills, MI, USA. (1:2410/905) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBS00002 Date: 07/21/97 From: OLE ALMIND MORTENSEN Time: 06:23pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: FindFirstChangeNotification Hello All! [Delphi 3.0] I'm trying to use subj. and it is working just fine, BUT I can't find a way to get the file which has changed. Anybody who can help me out on this one? Kind regards Ole HTTP://www.nightcall.dk/primeware/ E-Mail: primeware@night.ping.dk --- Prv CDMag 4.36 fra Primeware. * Origin: Nightcall Point (2:237/10.150) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBT00000 Date: 07/23/97 From: JUD MCCRANIE Time: 07:15pm \/To: GARY WEINFURTHER (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: TITLE BAR IN D3 JM>> But the manual shows them at normal size. For instance, see the JM>> Object Inspector windows on 2-1 and 2-3 of the D3 user's guide. GW> On my system, the Object Inspector's title bar is one or two pixels GW> shorter than a normal one, and the close button is small. The font is GW> normal size. I don't know of any way to change it. As I said earlier, GW> try messing with your Windows desktop appearance settings. I measured mine as about half of the normal size, with the font being so small it was unreadable. I had already tried your suggestion about the Windows appearance settings, thinking it would be the "Active title bar" or the "Inactive title bar" that set it. However, I just figured out that it is the "Palette title" that affects those three windows. When I reset them, it fixed the problem. Thanks for the suggestion! Jud McCranie ... The ease of Pascal with the power of Pascal. * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW20178 --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 5 * Origin: Riverdale, Ga (1:133/9024) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBT00001 Date: 07/22/97 From: PAT DAYTON Time: 06:49pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: FORM SIZE & MINIMIZE CLICK Hello everyone, I have only done a few projects in Delphi, but so far I think it's great! I have 2 questions both are for Delphi V1.0 using Win 3.1. First: I'm creating a program that will have an icon located on the screen (probably lower left) that when right clicked on will trigger a popup menu. The image I placed in the form is small, how can I size to borderless form so it's the same size as the object? The form can only be so small which isn't small enough. Basically I want it to look the size of the Microsoft Office toolbar icons. Second: When I have the program minimized and the user clicks on it, it pops up the standard menu (restore, move, maximize...ect.). Instead of that menu I want to use my own menu. How can that be done? Any ideas? Thanks --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: The Long Arm BBS Perkasie Pa. 215-257-2677 (1:2614/743) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBT00002 Date: 07/23/97 From: GARY WEINFURTHER Time: 08:32am \/To: JUD MCCRANIE (Read 0 times) Subj: TITLE BAR IN D3 Jud McCranie mentioned this to Gary Weinfurther: JM> But the manual shows them at normal size. For instance, see the JM> Object Inspector windows on 2-1 and 2-3 of the D3 user's guide. On my system, the Object Inspector's title bar is one or two pixels shorter than a normal one, and the close button is small. The font is normal size. I don't know of any way to change it. As I said earlier, try messing with your Windows desktop appearance settings. ...Gary --- GoldED 2.41 * Origin: The Flying Circus BBS, Farmington Hills, MI, USA. (1:2410/905) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBT00003 Date: 07/22/97 From: MARTIN MAAT Time: 06:57pm \/To: JUD MCCRANIE (Read 0 times) Subj: CARDINAL Hallo Jud JM> Is Delphi's (2&3) Cardinal type of much use, since it is simply a JM> subrange of integer? It would be useful if it was a 32-bit JM> unsigned integer, but it is a 31-bit unsigned integer. It is JM> simply an integer that can't be negative. You can define this JM> subrange if you want it. Help tells us: Type Range Format Integer -32768.. 32767 Signed 16-bit Cardinal 0.. 65535 Unsigned 16-bit Integer -2147483648..2147483647 Signed 32-bit Cardinal 0..2147483647 Unsigned 32-bit So I figured the last 2147483647 had to be wrong and the reason why you thought the cardinal type was no good. In 16-bits environments we used the integer type word, so cardinal in 32-bit had to be the 32-bit equivalent of word, that is, 32-bit unsigned. Just to proove this I reluctantly started up Delphi 3, soon to find that... you are right! (you already knew that, didn't you?) The compiler does not allow you to assign, say, 3 bilion to a cardinal. You can however dec, inc or shift out of the defined range and it will return negative values afterwards, it is really a 32 bit signed integer. I don't see any point either. It seems to be purely conventional. Perhaps some Pascal definition demands a cardinal type. I do not understand why the real "longword" type was left out. It may be for performance reasons. Groeten, Martin. --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: -=[ E-mail: m_maat@knoware.nl .......... ]=- (2:286/420.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 269 DELPHI Ref: EBT00004 Date: 07/22/97 From: MARTIN MAAT Time: 07:37pm \/To: JUD MCCRANIE (Read 0 times) Subj: TITLE BAR IN D3 Hallo Jud MM>> Perhaps there should have been a WS_EX_JUMBOBAR style too for fat MM>> fingered folks like you :-). GW> That is out of line. Please keep your flames to yourself. I hope _you_ did understand I was only kidding... JM> I really have a problem that at least 3 windows (Object inspector, JM> allignment pallete, and project manager) have title bars that are JM> extremely small vertically - just a few pixels. Am I the only one JM> that has this problem? I just counted the pixels of the Object Inspector's (WS_EX_TOOLBAR style) title bar: the active blue part is 15 pixels high which seems a lot more than "just a few". (To count the pixels, Alt-PrintScreen the Object Inspector to the clip board, paste it into Paint and zoom in) It might be a system wide setting that we don't know about which accidentally was changed in your registry. Propably not though. As I understand now, you cannot have readible captions in those windows either. Groeten, Martin. --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: -=[ E-mail: m_maat@knoware.nl .......... ]=- (2:286/420.1)