Recent content by butthead

the borland application of the windows api, specifacally the mouse part, should take care of itself. in one application I am working on I have a stringgrid and the scroll mouse usage works with no help from me specifically. similiar results with tmemo and trichedit. no "me" intervention is...

some code to peruse. [code] char directoryarray [5000] [256]; char filearray [5000] [100]; int RecurseDir (char *dir, char *wild, int x) { // Loads the directoryarray struct ffblk ffblk; int done; char buff [512]; strcpy( buff, dir ); strcat( buff, wild ); done...

the onkeypress event is where I would start.

I am not sure about your implementation so this may be off base. I dont see any reason for this the character "F" is already a representation of a hex value, there is no need to convert. you would just check, using a bunch of if else statements or a switch statement to check to see if the...

word of warning when searching for td.exe there are many references to the turbo downloader program, and they aint all nice. whatch the download source and be sure you are getting turbo debugger and not turbo downloader. TC

I think the inplace editor is not a public member of the stringrid component. You might try subclassing the stringrid and or the inplace editor to access it. TC

the last link is very helpful and you may find your answer there. It helped me solve some of my problems with the plain jane TStringGrid. http://bcbjournal.com/bcbcaq/index.php?loc=grids http://bcbjournal.com/articles/vol4/0009/Working_with_string_grids.htm TC

google "tasm versus nasm" = 873 hits TC

I think the problem here is that the desktop and mycomputer is not necessarily the directory structure you think it is. the desktop on window 98 folder is in the c:\windows directory and my computer is propably somewhwer similiar. my desktop is a construct and not necessarily a folder...

you can take an exe file and convert the extension to txt and open it , or attempt to open it in a text editor. as you noticed some editors attempt to translate all the characters into their text readable form. hence all the smileys and such. some just stop reading the file at the first...

I got intermitent problems with builder 5 also. it seems that I can compile a project I have been working on for some time now and it works fine. then I add one line of code and the thing goes poof. it wont run in the IDE. I delete obj, tds everthing that is not source, even reboot and still...

something to consider would be using a font that has a fixed char size. I think courier new has this property. since you now beforehand by previous tests, what length of char of this font will fit into a certain length you can size your string accordingly. TC

yur corporate environment is very lakadaaisical if they are allowing the user to install software. in my company no one installs anything. this is thanks to the goober that almost wiped out the system by letting a virus into the corparate net. only the IT dept installs software. the code to...

you got the star dude cause I just had the opportunity to search the temp files to recover a lot of work I had thought I had lost. I inadvertently did a quick exit from windows and I had not saved the doc. I remembered your post and it saved me a lot of grief. thanks bunches. TC