[DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook

Jolyon Smith jsmith at deltics.co.nz
Mon Mar 14 11:54:10 NZDT 2011


I remember developing in 640x480 in SQLWindows.  Going to 1024x768 was a
HUGE upgrade, made even better if the monitor supported that resolution
non-interlaced.

 

Tho I seem to recall that by the time we got even to Delphi 1.0, 1024x768
was pretty much standard.  Or maybe I was just lucky enough to work in well
heeled and well equipped companies.  J

 

[before that of course, there was 80 x 25 text mode (80 x 30 if you were
really lucky), but I guess we're sticking to GUI era development.  Having
said that, at the same time as fighting with text mode development IDE's on
the PC I was enjoying 1024x768i GUIs using Lattice C and HiSpeed Pascal on
the Amiga.... ahhh happy days... J]

 

 

Oops, does my geek look big in this ?  LOL

 

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Alister Christie
Sent: Monday, 14 March 2011 11:40
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook

 

I remember developing in 800x600 or so in Delphi 3.  Going to 1024x768 was a
big upgrade ;-)

I use to record my videos in 800x600, with a largish font - that's a bit
painful in a modern IDE.  I've just restarted making videos and have settled
on 1280x720 (720p) which is supported on YouTube.



Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 


On 14/03/2011 10:15 a.m., Steve Peacocke wrote: 

Thanks Rodney, 

 

I'm trying it out - not sure of living in the world of the little
teeny-weeny for too long but it will allow me to get some work done without
lugging around the larger system. plus it allows me to work without the
power plug (Hello cappuccinos) for longer. My laptop only works for about 30
minutes but I can get a good 6 hours from the netbook.

Steve Peacocke
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Rodney Chan <rchan at compuspec.com> wrote:

I have D6/WinXP on my Netbook and it is working fine.  I guess it should be
also OK for D7 as the requrement is similar.

Only concern is the screen is a bit small for doing actually work for a long
period of time.  Other thing is, the screen resolution may be different from
your client.  I use the utility from Asus to scroll the screen so that I can
get a 1024 x 768 (or bigger) virtual screen on my netbook if needed.


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Today's Topics:

  1. Delphi 7 on a Netbook (Steve Peacocke)
  2. Re: Delphi Starter Edition (Paul A Norman)
  3. Delphi for PHP (Graham Marsden)
  4. Re: Delphi for PHP again (Rohit Gupta)
  5. Re: Delphi for PHP (Rohit Gupta)
  6. Access to street maps (mark)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:26:56 +1300
From: Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net>
Subject: [DUG] Delphi 7 on a Netbook
To: List NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
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I was wondering if anyone has successfully used Delphi 7 on a netbook (win
xp). I'm heading off and will have only my netbook with me.

As I was working on a Delphi 7 project I was wondering if I could get away
with just the little Netbook (asus eeepc 1001) and not have to take the full
laptop.

Steve Peacocke
0220 612-611





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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:36:38 +1300
From: Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
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Thanks Joylon and Todd, that has sorted that out,

... I had been wondering the way things were worded whether you could
use 3rd party things like Zeos, or if databasing capabilities were
limited strictly to only what was described in the feature matrix.
(Remembering  the Turbo thingies they put out that didn't even let you
add components.)

We are charitable non-commercial (take no payments) so I take it we
would fit under the $USD1000 at all times?

Paul

On 9 March 2011 17:11, Todd <todd.martin.nz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> ZEOS certainly connects to MySql.
>
> Todd.
>>
>> Looking through the feature matrix, I was not sure, can Delphi Starter
>> connect to an MySql database on local or other server please?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 31 January 2011 21:06, Malcolm Groves <Malcolm.Groves at embarcadero.com>
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:25:56 +1300
From: "Graham Marsden" <graham at wk.planet.gen.nz>
Subject: [DUG] Delphi for PHP
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Hi Rohit

When I had a play with D4PHP I fould the same
frustrations you have reported recently and had
the same problem with stuff working locally but
failing when deployed to the net. If you follow
the delpoy instructions (such as they are) then
that may be one problem in not installing the
deploy files (only a few of which surely are used
for a simple app) in the correct ind searchable
folders. Another and maybe more significant source
of errors is the fact that D4PHP assumes you are
going to have PHP 5 on the host, which may or may
not be the case - check with phpinfo() This last
one plus the poor documentation has put my D4PHP
life on hold until the situation clears - aside to
Embarcadero !! - can we have some better
documentation and examples ? - please

Best of luck

Graham Marsden

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:07:35 +1300
From: Rohit Gupta <r.gupta at xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi for PHP again
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Cameron,

if someone else was asking the question I am,  I might well give him
your reply too.  Having invested the time in it, I haven't reached the
point where I can chuck it out and relearn something else.

Bit by bit, I have already replaced most of D4P with straight php, html
or javascript - mostly for efficiency.  The only thing left now is the
query and grid.  And the panel does make it a lot easier than using
html-table manually.

Finally the debugger started working (its just temperamental), but I
don't need it now.


Rohit


On 11/03/2011 11:21 p.m., Cameron Hart wrote:
> This is the first time I haven't deleted any post that says Delphi for
> PHP without reading it.
>
> Don't you think it's time to stop complicating your PHP development?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On Behalf Of Rohit Gupta
> Sent: Friday, 11 March 2011 10:57 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: [DUG] Delphi for PHP again
>
> On my pc, the stuff runs fine.  I upload it to the webserver and one of
> the pages fires its OnCreate event about 50 times.
>
> Any ideas anyone ?
>
> Rohit



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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:26:19 +1300
From: Rohit Gupta <r.gupta at xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi for PHP
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
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Graham,

I have simply not believed the deploy tool and uploaded the complete vcl
to the web.  This way, I know its not an issue.

I had wondered about the php version, but not blaming that yet.

Really the major issue is php itself - based on basic (arguably the
first kiddy language invented over 30 years ago).  I cant believe we are
using it now !!  Slight misspelling of an identifier and one is history
with errors that have nothing to do with reality.  I have had ajax stop
working.  Then query->open would not work but query->active = true
would  etc....

The issue of the oncreate firing multiple times turned out to be caching
(probably by the php engine itself - nothing else makes sense) as I had
cleared the browser cache.  Once I fixed that with some html tags, the
refresh from ajax has stopped working.  It no longer refreshes the
control as it used to - until the form is submitted.

I am going to have one more go at ajax based data control refresh on
another form.  If that doesnt work, then I will convert all of the
delphi stuff to php.  The ide is still useful as a project manager.

I finally discovered the _problem with constants_ in another file.  if
there is no vcl in the page (form) then the constants work.  As soon as
vcl is involved, they are no longer visible...

I discovered the _problem with functions_ in another file.  There must
be no spaces between the identifier and the bracket.  Then they work.

Rohit


On 13/03/2011 5:25 p.m., Graham Marsden wrote:
> Hi Rohit
>
> When I had a play with D4PHP I fould the same
> frustrations you have reported recently and had
> the same problem with stuff working locally but
> failing when deployed to the net. If you follow
> the delpoy instructions (such as they are) then
> that may be one problem in not installing the
> deploy files (only a few of which surely are used
> for a simple app) in the correct ind searchable
> folders. Another and maybe more significant source
> of errors is the fact that D4PHP assumes you are
> going to have PHP 5 on the host, which may or may
> not be the case - check with phpinfo() This last
> one plus the poor documentation has put my D4PHP
> life on hold until the situation clears - aside to
> Embarcadero !! - can we have some better
> documentation and examples ? - please
>
> Best of luck
>
> Graham Marsden
>




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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:22:07 +1300
From: "mark" <wcsl at kol.co.nz>
Subject: [DUG] Access to street maps
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I have a D2009 application which holds the addresses of employees and the
customers they service.

Is there a way that I can display a map with a selected address?

Ideally, I would also like to be able to get the distance between two
addresses.

I assume that this information is available from Google or Wises, but have
no idea how to go about accessing it. I?m guessing it will be a Web Service,
with which I have limited experience (I have an interface to one).

Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Mark



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