[DUG] Making apps look fancy

[Jeremy North]

There is no D2008. Do you mean D2007? If so, unless there is unicode
specific issues (which would exist going to D2009) then I'd highly
doubt you'd have any issues going to D2010. Especially for
"appearance".



On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, PDS - John<John at padasy.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi all
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> All those fancy objects look really cool, but I wonder, will an app written
> e.g. in D2008 with those objects work in Delphi2010?
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> John C
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Sean Cross
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 8:19 p.m.
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> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
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> I use mustang peak http://www.mustangpeak.net/ drop down forms for this.
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> I (conceptually) set a timer when the user starts typing.  Every xxx ms, I
> run a query and populate a component on the drop down form.
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> Depending on where I using it, and how slow the search is, I run the search
> is in the main thread or a background thread.
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> In my main app, I just run refresh a stored proc component when the user
> stops typing for a brief time, and do it in the main thread.  That is plenty
> quick enough.  In other apps though, I have run searches in a background
> thread and only done the vcl update in the main thread.
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> Sean
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of John Bird
> Sent: 12 August 2009 5:39 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy
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> One thing I would like to be able to do more is the live search boxes, like
> the Vista start menu/Firefox Address bar/latest Google search results/etc
>  which populate the lists as you type.
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> What is others opinion on the best way to do these in Delphi?  (especially
> using standard VCL and non-data aware controls).
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> I see Delphi 2010 brings in such a feature to the IDE, it does a simple
> non-indexed search behind the scenes apparently.
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> John
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