Ian Branch

Hi Anders & Remy, Thank you both for your responses. Very informative. I'm afraid things like TAgent, MSAgent ActiveX & MSAgent Server are not things I have any knowledge of. This 'Clippy' thing is something I am playing with att and if it is appropriate it will be on Win 7 PCs. Customer refuses to update. I see the note/reference about Double Agent. I will have a look. Are there any limitations/expectations to its use? I am hoping it will be OS/App agnostic, aside from being Windows based. Regards & Tks again. Ian

Hi Team, I need to prevent Users from actually editing, including deleting, a TComboBoxEx whilst still allowing the contents to be changed via the drop-down. The component's OnChange event fires whenever they do something in the field. The component doesn't have a Read-Only property. This might get in the road of the drop-down working, so what do I do? Regards & TIA, Ian

No shame involved. I suspect ALL programmers are guilty of this more than once. ;-)

Just to close this off. I did a complete D10.4.1 De/Re. All good now.

Hi Team, My D10.4.1 IDE continues to play up. :-( Now my editing toolbars have disappeared.. Where/how do I reenable them please? Regards & TIA, Ian

Just to close this off. I did a complete D10.4.1 De/Re. All good now.

Just to close this off. I did a complete D10.4.1 De/RE and all good now.

Hi Team, D10.4.1, Win 10 64bit, Parnassus Bookmarks 1.6.2. After sorting out some other issues with the IDE I am now down to an error with rtl270.bpl when the IDE exits. I progressively disable the IDE Add-Ins without any change until I de-installed Parnassus Bookmarks, PB,via GetIt. The issue/error on exit disappeared. Reinstalling PB the problem returns. Investigating, I found that when PB is uninstalled it leaves ParnassusCoreEditor_XSydney.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ParnassusShared. Ah Ha! Says I, delete it and do a fresh install of PB. Ummmm. No, Delphi hangs trying to load the Core Editor. Fortunately I had squirreled it away and restored it. Reinstalled PB, same issue on exit. 😞 I use PB all the time and really don't want to lose it but I don't want the error on exit either... Thoughts/suggestions, polite ;-), appreciated. Regards, Ian

Just to close this off. I did a complete D10.4.1 De/Re and all is fine now.

100% agree, but in this case the Customer's Users are not the quickest and unless something is in their face, it doesn't get much attention/credence. 😞

I saw the observation about the DEL/Backspace, I am prepared to accept the risk att. OK. Noted on not using dialogs in this case. Unfortunate. I will revise.

I did read them and they were noted. FYI - This is what I now have in place.. procedure TCustomersForm.IndexOrdKeyPress(Sender: TObject; var Key: Char); begin if not(Key = '') then // if any char was typed by user! begin MessageBeep(MB_ICONERROR); TaskMessageDlg('Editing not permitted!', 'You are not permitted to edit this entry. Please select from the drop-down options!', mtError, [mbOK], 0); IndexOrd.Text := 'Customer #'; Key := #0; // imiting "Read-Only" effect! end; end; Regards & Tks again, Ian

Hi Emailx45, Oh, that is excellent! Thank you. I do like the added logging functionality. I am going to save that as a code snippet for the future. Regards, Ian

Hi emailx45. I deleted the Users registry entry as suggested. It recreated the Embarcadero registry entry OK but when I fired up Delphi and answered the relevant questions, I still didn't have the design or code edit toolbars. 😞 Thanks for the thought/suggestion. Regards, Ian

Hi emailx45. I deleted the above. It recreated the Embarcadero registry entry OK but when I fired up Delphi and answered the relevant questions, I still didn't have the design or code edit toolbars. :-( Thanks for the thought/suggestion. Regards, Ian

Hmmm. Is it an issue if Bookmarks is at rev 1.6.2 & CoreEditor is at 1.6.1?

Hi emailx45 Registry all OK. I backup and deleted the directory as suggested. WOW! didn't that screw up Delphi... See attached. Restored the original.. Ian

Hi Uwe, ATT I don't have MMX installed. No it didn't. What I have done and it seems to have saved it is delete the .dst files and disabled 'Save project desktop when closing'. I don't know if it was one or the other or both that did it but I am back in business. I note the .dst file(s) haven't been re generated and all is looking good att. I also not I was getting a lot of "A component named DotNetForm already exists." error messages. They too have disappeared. Ahhh me. The joys of the IDE. ;-) Regards, Ian

Hi Team, D10.4.1. 32bit Apps. I have the need to disguise a Date in a table, currently stored as a Date field, so the actual date cannot be read by any normal User/Utility. Ideally, something to encrypt and decrypt as required. Doesn't need to be super secret, it's just to deter the casual 'hacker'. Currently the Date is stored in a Date field but this is not compulsory. Having said that, it will need to encrypted from a TDateTime (Now), and decrypted back to a TDateTime variable. Thoughts, suggestions, recommendations appreciated. Regards & TIA, Ian

Update - I have gone a combined route using the field as suggested by emailx45 and TEA, via EurekaLog, pointed to by Kas. Thanks Guys, Appreciated, Ian

emailx45 & Kas, Thank you for your suggestions. Both appreciated. I do use Eurekalog so that is a good option. Not to waste an opportunity to learn I will try both methodologies and see how they go. Thank you again, Regards, Ian

Hi Guys, D10.4.1, Win 10. Is something supposed to happen when I hover over one of the entries and click? It doesn't and I don't recall it ever. If it is supposed to, how/where do I enable it please? Ian

Hi Lars, Yes, sorry, on the Welcome page. Nothing happens in my case. I have Chrome as my default Browser. Ian

Hi Tim, You are quite correct and I implied that in my feature request. https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/feature-requests/128/ Old saying - You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. 😉 (Poet John Lydgate as made famous by Abraham Lincoln) Ian

Yep, just as I couldn't find where, I found where. On it.