Few days back, i got assignment from my boss to convert delphi application so can be run on vista, These application using TGif component to show some gif picture draw on the paint box. problem that i encounter when using vista is that now the windows have features to protect user from malicious software called User Access Control especially when the picture was put on one of mapped network drive.
the syntax of FileExists cannot find the respected file on that mapped network drive even the file was there, at first i try to find the caused why the FileExist cannot find the file even the file was laying there perfectly.it took a lot off pulling hair and scratch in the head that finally i found out that there was something fishy with UAC and the FIleExists incident, by disabling the UAC then the application work prefectly.by Now i wonder why microsoft making such features with out a proper documentation that we developer can read and understand…

For you guys that need to know what is your cpu speed we got the snippet to get the cpu timer speed here … Read the rest of this entry »

Hi, for all of u that have used delphi for sometimes, i think this tips is usefull.

if we need to edit certain published property on some object in the property editor and also if the object have long – long published property ..then some times we will have some difficulty in finding those property. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi, have you guys , ever involved in creating application that will be used in different country or event different time zone ? well in most case ..all data that have DateTime value will be much saver if we saved it on GMT time basis.. and there for when we want to display the data to our GUI need to be converted into localize timed, Read the rest of this entry »