Topics by Duoas

Hey all. I'm always frustrated that I cannot seem to find a reference that shows when a feature was *introduced* in Delphi. For example, to use ErrOutput, I have to manually create that value in D5. But what about D6? or D7? Does such a reference exist?

Hi all. I have some questions that may cover multiple forums, but I think this is the most appropriate. I have been working on my wife's new website. You can see its current state here: [url]http://home.comcast.net/~mlyn7576/signandgrow/[/url] The following questions apply both to the home page and one of the sub-pages. …

Hi all. I've nearly finished the home page for my wife. Sadly, I've discovered (again, surprise, surprise) IE doesn't play fair. I wanted the home page to be a simple "splash with links" kind of thing, and I used a variation of Meyer's CSS popup technique to do it. (See …

Hi all. I am designing a website for my wife's business, and I am coding it by hand -- pure HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS-1. When I loaded it into IE 6 (6.0.2900.5512.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090804-1435) I got a message complaining that it had "Active Content". (I am aware it is a result …

Hi all. I'm writing a little program that paints and animates its own form in response to the user's mouse gestures. The weird thing is: Whenever the [B]BDS Delphi 2006 is running[/B] and I run my application, I get a framerate of about 25 FPS. If I terminate BDS but …

Hi all. I know this is an odd question, but I'm hoping someone else out there knows how to do this. I've just installed Kubuntu 7.10 (which I like), but Debian seems to have messed around with the startup a bit... I've replaced my /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz file with one that changes …

The question frequently comes up on how to manipulate dates and time using Delphi. Delphi 2.0 and later supply the [B]TDateTime[/B] format, which is actually a floating point number (stored as a IEEE double) containing the number of days that have passed since 12 December 1899. (Delphi 1.0 calculated the …

I'm always dinking with my PATH variable at the command prompt. But the supplied windows "path" command is (and has always been) pathetic. Well, after my latest episode of typing "path" and getting 6!!! lines of clutter I had had enough. So I wrote this little utility that lets me …

Hi all. I'm a newbie to this forum so please forgive the odd question as first post... :-) I'm writing myself a [B]property[/B] class (just because I want to play with them). My property header looks something like this (all the usual clutter is removed): [code]#define property_readwrite( c, v, r, …