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October 2009
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Windows 7 Components - Sorry
Daniel Wischnewski
– I got an email this morning asking for the Windows 7 component update. I had published those last Thursday, but must have unchecked the publish button. It is available now, so go here and get them. More information will come, soon.
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Windows 7 Components - Beta
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, here comes the update promised. Originally, I planned to release it yesterday, but I had to give a talk today on short notice. So I pushed around priorities a little. Anyway, this update has a few fixes as well as support for taskbar windows as well, interesting for MDI ...
September 2009
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Windows 7 Components and RAD Studio 2010 Logo
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, I am quite overwhelmed by the amount of positive feedback I've received during the recent days. One of the most frequent questions was whether I would send out previews to select people. In short: no, this would take too much of my time keeping up with the people. So far only two have ...
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Delphi Controls for Windows 7 - State Update
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, in my last blog post I've asked for your input for getting a preview of WinControls. I am getting pretty well along with the controls and I've wanted to show you a small preview of the Taskbar Windows component. Watch my blog for the upcoming release of ...
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Update for the Windows 7 Taskbar Components coming soon
Daniel Wischnewski
– Currently, I am getting ready to ship an update for the Windows 7 taskbar components. As the preview, this one will be open source and free of charge for anyone to use in any project. However, one problem still remains to be resolved. I try to get a "screen shot" from a tab sheet, whether ...
August 2009
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Review of SilenX Ixtrema 120 Quiet Fan
Daniel Wischnewski
– When I built my current computer, I wanted it to be quiet. Following quiet many reviews, I went with the SilenX Ixtrema 120 Quiet Fans and got two for my case. Compared to other fans, they are quiet pricy, at about 16 Euro a piece in Germany, ordered online. So, with raving reviews and ...
June 2009
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Delphi Days 2009 in Hamburg (Pictures)
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, in a word: fantastic! The "Delphi-Tage" (Delphi Days), this year in Hamburg, are over. Last Friday and Saturday were great. Lots of sessions, quiet a few things to learn (and give away), fantastic people and friends. It was great. Thanks to all speakers and visitors, as well as thanks to ...
April 2009
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Review: SDN Event March '09
Daniel Wischnewski
– First: thank you Johan and Dr. Bob for inviting me over, I had a great time. It was interesting meeting so many developers from the Netherlands and from so many fields across the whole development sphere. The SDN group is not solely for Delphi developers, but for all and this makes their ...
March 2009
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Windows Vista, UAC, Defender and Viruses...
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, I am back from the SDN Event in Driebergen. It was a fun event, I have met quiet a few people and, after a few years, finally met Dr. Bob again. One of my session was about the Windows 7 Taskbar (an update for the components is in the pipe line, btw). And when talking about Windows 7, one of ...
February 2009
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Insufficient key column information for updating or refreshing
Daniel Wischnewski
– Basically, this is a note to myself, but it may help you anyway. So, I publish it here. Creating a little more complex query today, I got the error message "Insufficient key column information for updating or refreshing" when trying to apply changes to the data set. Solution: ...
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Graphic Tablets and Delphi
Daniel Wischnewski
– During the recent days I was looking for a solution on how to access properties of my Wacom tablet within a Delphi application. Using the Pen & Ink API of Windows is one possibility, however that offered much more than I needed, not thinking about the time getting into that one as ...
January 2009
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Windows 7 - Displaying your applications status in the Windows Taskbar
Daniel Wischnewski
– Today, I show you the second set of screen shots from the Windows 7 Taskbar components. Since Windows 95 - which introduced the last real change in how the user handles multiple running applications on Windows - we all know the notification area. Sadly many programs have abused this area, so that ...
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Windows 7 - Displaying Progress of a Task in the Windows Taskbar
Daniel Wischnewski
– You have asked for it, so here are the first images for you. Today I want to show you a few screen shots of displaying the progress of a rather lengthy task in the Windows 7 Taskbar. You should not that Microsoft does not encourage you to use this for shorter tasks which usually finish within a few ...
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The fastest compiler taking forever
Daniel Wischnewski
– Over at the Delphi-PRAXiS we had an interesting thread going on the last two days where one user asked for what reason it could have, that his Delphi compiler is so slow. It took about 45 minutes to compile just over 20.000 lines. The source of the problem was a piece of software, which ...
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Alpha 1 of "Windows 7 Controls for Delphi"
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, as written here before, I have toyed around with Windows 7 and created a few Controls that you can simply place on your Form to support some of the most obvious Windows 7 features. Currently available are: Jump Lists - right click your application entry on the taskbar to ...
