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Forum: Pascal and Delphi Sep 24th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 984
Posted By ExplainThat
Perhaps, I haven't fully understood your question but it seems to me that you are going about things in a somewhat complicated way. Firstly, by far the neatest way to add entries to a list view goes...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Sep 23rd, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 1,865
Posted By ExplainThat
Your best long term bet would be to start using the TNT component suite. It is no longer freeware but you can still get an updated version of the last freeware version here

TNT Controls...
Forum: MySQL Sep 5th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 1,200
Posted By ExplainThat
A print-ready MySQL quick reference is available <URL SNIPPED>. Registration (free) is required for access to a more legible version.

An extended version of this card that covers the MySQL SQL...
Forum: HTML and CSS Sep 5th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,430
Posted By ExplainThat
All very valid points - I haven't browsed to your page and checked the actual download time so it could well be that you are starting of with unreasonable expectations.

As others have pointed out...
Forum: PHP Aug 31st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 809
Posted By ExplainThat
There are probably several ways of accomplishing this. One would be to simply use file_get_contents (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php) to load the file text into a string...
Forum: HTML and CSS Aug 30th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,430
Posted By ExplainThat
Wow! With a code listing like that it is scarcely surprising that you have got no replies. I haven't read all your code - and chances are no one else will - but here is, I hope, a partial solution...
Forum: Website Reviews Jul 28th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 672
Posted By ExplainThat
By all means - all feedback is useful. Did you not spot the Login/Register button on the left of the screen (any page) or did it not appear in your browser for some reason. If the later I would...
Forum: Website Reviews Jul 25th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 672
Posted By ExplainThat
Hello All,

ExplainThat! (http://www.explainth.at) is not a new site - merely a rapidly evolving one. I have just finished implementing a user login/registration scheme and would appreciate...
Forum: PHP Jun 28th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 571
Posted By ExplainThat
Tizag is a good place to begin. However, PHP is an unimaginably huge beast so beyond a certain point you will have no choice but to use the php.net online documentation. The quality of this...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi May 26th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 728
Posted By ExplainThat
Sheady,

It is never very easy pinpointing errors based on very long code listings such as yours. Having taken a brief look at your code I have several suggestions to make


In my book any...
Forum: Website Reviews May 9th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 619
Posted By ExplainThat
I woudl greatly appreciate any feedback on the look, feel and useability of my new site DubaiDesk (http://www.dubaidesk.com).

I should mention that the site is useable but ugly on 800 x 600...
Forum: Website Reviews May 9th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 747
Posted By ExplainThat
I found myself having to do far too much scrolling and clicking to locate products on your site - it would be enough to drive me away if I happened to be shopping for silver plated toe rings (I am...
Forum: PHP Apr 29th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,431
Posted By ExplainThat
Hmmm... Apache is a heavyweight solution. I suggested Abyss cos it does the job and is so easy to administer.
Forum: PHP Apr 28th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,431
Posted By ExplainThat
Steve,

Here are a few general tips


Pick a subject you enjoy to create your first site. That improves your chances of actually doing a good job with it
Pick a decent domain name but don't...
Forum: PHP Apr 27th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,431
Posted By ExplainThat
Your friend is misleading you. XHTML, CSS and PHP are not somehow mutually exclusive. You can get so far with client side technologies - such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript - and then find that you...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Apr 27th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,031
Posted By ExplainThat
Brief answer is take a look at using interfaces. In case you are not familiar with the concept


An interface is used to declare an intent to provide certain services
By services I mean...
Forum: PHP Apr 24th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,517
Posted By ExplainThat
Forum: PHP Apr 23rd, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,517
Posted By ExplainThat
A cheatsheet covering the core features of PHP 5 is available here

PHP5 Cheatsheet (http://www.explainth.at/en/qr/phpqr.shtml)

Free to print, share and enjoy.
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Mar 21st, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,256
Posted By ExplainThat
A very simple obfuscation may make it not worth the effort for the magpie types - try this

http://javascriptcompressor.com/

It is a freebie.
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Mar 21st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,071
Posted By ExplainThat
You should consider redesiging so you don't use popup windows - chances are the user's browser will block it. Consider creating a popup effect using CSS + HTML instead.
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Mar 21st, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 627
Posted By ExplainThat
There are two ways to handle error


onerror - which just allows you to carry on gracefully when there is an error but takes little corrective action
The try..catch code block that allows you...
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Mar 21st, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,256
Posted By ExplainThat
I think the right answer here is - don't bother. Wanting to hide CSS, HTML and JavaScript is


difficult if not impossible
quite against the spirit of the web - at one time or another we have...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Mar 19th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 1,276
Posted By ExplainThat
Petez, I am guessing that English is not your first language. I am not sure which other forums you posted to. However, it is possible that - as with this forum - you have not got a response because...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Mar 5th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 1,133
Posted By ExplainThat
Yes, but I don't often find time to survey more than one forum here. Try posting to the VB.NET forum - someone is bound to help out.
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Mar 4th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 1,133
Posted By ExplainThat
program array_sum;
Uses wincrt;
var
nums:array[1..10] of integer;
index:integer;
Sum:integer;
Begin
sum:=0;//Delphi initializes local variables. Not sure if your Pascal compiler...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Mar 4th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 1,133
Posted By ExplainThat
Not sure why you have two integer variables x and Counter. Surely, you could work with Counter alone, couldn't you?
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Feb 13th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 3,122
Posted By ExplainThat
You need to be more precise when you post questions of this sort. Brief answer is - hard to tell unless you tell us which DB. Unless it is something really obscure you should have no trouble...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Feb 13th, 2008
Replies: 22
Views: 3,206
Posted By ExplainThat
You appear to have got a nice conversation going Lynxus & Duos so I hesitate to butt in. However, having looked at the original post there are a few issues that struck me so I thought I would...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Feb 13th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 4,851
Posted By ExplainThat
Don't know if you are still looking for a better solution Alastair but here is one anyway. It uses Delphi but given that it relies on the CoCreateGUID function to generate random sequences you should...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Jan 10th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 4,350
Posted By ExplainThat
There is an excellent freebie DLL called inpout32.dll which makes it very easy to interface with all kinds of devices. I can't recall using it to access a USB drive but I suspect it does that too.
...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Jan 9th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 2,611
Posted By ExplainThat
EnderX, I don't think there is any way to do what you want using Delphi on its on. However, rope in WinSock and you have a very simple solution using the various WinSock API functions. The...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 21st, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,659
Posted By ExplainThat
There are benefits in not having your code littered with multiple references such as ListBox1. To mention just three


More compact and readable
Less prone to typos - ok, the Delphi compiler...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 21st, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 4,065
Posted By ExplainThat
I am almost certain that works. In case it does not, here is a trick I remember using


Change the registry strings
Use the Windows GetLocalTime function to fetch the current time in a...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 20th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 4,065
Posted By ExplainThat
End of my working day here so a detailed example will have to wait for tomorrow. If you really want to have a go at it right away just take a look at the TRegistry object methods in Delphi help. ...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 20th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 4,065
Posted By ExplainThat
One way would be to change the Windows Registry settings directly. The entries you are looking for are the sLongDate, sShortDate and sTimeFormat strings under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 20th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,659
Posted By ExplainThat
Might I suggest two changes


Rather than doing ListBox1.items inside the loop, just store a reference as AList:=ListBox1.Items and use that.
strToFloat will trigger an exception if the ListBox...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 19th, 2007
Replies: 10
Views: 2,726
Posted By ExplainThat
ADrive, pushing and popping in that way goes entirely against the whole philosophy of Pascal. The raw code to do what you want goes something like this


1. type TADriveArr = array[MAXWORD] of...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 19th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 4,059
Posted By ExplainThat
Like I explained, you should be able to do that with a combination of a typecast and a with statement as I have done.


var qry:Pointer;//or TObject if you want it that way...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 14th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 4,059
Posted By ExplainThat
ADrive, it may be possible that you have not fully understood just how Delphi typecasts work. First thing first - though not wrong, it does strike me as odd that you should assign the object you...
Forum: Pascal and Delphi Dec 10th, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,057
Posted By ExplainThat
As Squidd says - we need more details. Also, make sure you tell us whether you want to use vanilla Pascal or Delphi - I imagine the former. If you are using Delphi then try not to go down the route...
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