Recent content by chunkyman

Thanks for your input but how would you call this procedure please??

Hi, I am trying to get my app to appear in front of all the other windows when executed. I tried some methods that I found on the net. To try it out I ran Task Manager and left it open. My app never made it in front of Task manager, why??? Thanks

Hi, I need to stop a running application from my Delphi application. Tried the post message method of WM_QUIT but this app will throw up an "are you sure you want to quit this program" message when I do. I tried WM_DESTROY which actually crashed it :) Is there a nicer way of doing this please...

Hi and thank you for replying. I did what you suggested but now I am getting this error: "--------------------------- Debugger Exception Notification --------------------------- Project MYPROJ.exe raised exception class EInvalidPointer with message 'Invalid pointer operation'. Process stopped...

HI, i was wondering if anyone ever got into a database that was created by Sage Line 50 through Delphi? And if so, what components did you use? Thanks

Hi, I hope someone can help me because I am lost with this. I wrote an application usin Delphi 6 and on a tab I have used multiple TAdvStringGrids (TMS). The problem is that whenever I close my application with "CLOSE;" itermittingly I get an error of "Debugger Exception Notification Project...

to put you in the picture I am planning to use this system to record cctv feeds from various clients.These fields will be coming over dsl. I was thinking of a mixture of SATA and PATA (pata to make use of at least ONE drive on the onboard IDE cont.) M/B's with 4 sata's are common so that gives...

Well, I do not need any security overkill like 2003 server offers, that's why I chose XP. I think it has less overhead than 2003, wouyldt you agree??

Hi and thanks for your input. If I have 6 hard disks in each server, I do not think that would cause too much of a hassle for a 500W PSU surely. Heat could be a problem but I guess it could be solved with proper air-cooling. I heard a little bit about creating dynamic disks in XP, do you know...

HI, I need a storage system in the 16terabyte range. I got quoted from HP and IBM but the cost is wayyy tooo high for our budget. So I have decided to build around 5 servers with heaps of 500GB hard disks. I was just wondering if anybody ever tried this and if Windows XP has a limitation on...