Recent content by clivew

I must be missing something obvious; but I can not deduce why some items in my project list are in bold font and some are not. It does not seem to be related to whether they are checked for compilation or to their file extension. I could find no reference to this in the help file either.

I bought a new laptop and installed PL/SQL Developer. Now I want to copy over all my preferences (color highlighting, formatting, panes locations, etc. etc.) from my old machine to my new machine but I can not seem to find a "Save/Export Preferences" or "Restore/Import preferences". Is there a...

I do not know how the ActiveX became involved and it makes me curious about your name TOracle_Interface. Is it possible that you have an interfaced object somewhere in this ownership hierarchy that is reference counting and is trying to free the session during the process of destroying itself...

You should not need to destroy these objects (unless you create them dynamically with no owner). Access Violations are notorious for giving misleading error reasons. They do not show up when the problem is created, they only show up when the violation is triggered. Scour your code for some...

What version of DOA are you using? There should be a setting in (I think) the Session component for string conversion.

I am not quite sure whether the following code will give me any problems with existing records as I move from Delphi6 to DelphiXE. I store a checksum using qryUpdate.SetVariable('CHECKVAL',anAnsiString); in my database to make sure that a file system file has not changed. This is the relevant...

FIXED ======== Opened the dfm and saved as text and edited: font to Tahoma size to -11 (Same as defaults on a new form in XE) Saved as text format. Compiled my EXE and ran in XP. Got my big round dots. Hope this helps someone else. Clive

OK. I found a discussion of a similar issue in the forums. Here is a comment that seems to address it. It is also realted to having Themes enabled. =============== I had a similar problem that was related to the font used. MS Sans Serif doesn't have the password 'dot' character on some machines...

I don't know if either of these are relevant but: 1. Package installed reports itself as 4.1.2.2 but Session.Info reports 4.1.2.0 2. I see all your DFM files are still binary, not text. Not that I can see that making any difference to the EXE.

I created a form with a TEdit and set passwordchar to '*' It produced the large round dots on both my Windows7 64-bit machine AND my 32-bit XP machine. I then tried running three different applications recently compiled on the new machine and all displayed the same behaviour when I ran them on...

I just compiled my first EXE on a Windows7 64-bit machine with DelphiXE. When I run the application and click the button that eventually runs TOracleLogon.Execute I get the usual dialog and large round dots in the password field instead of the old asterisks. So far so good. However, when I test...

Thanks Marco. Finally clear, even to me!

I am feeling dumber and dumber as I keep asking questions. Sorry! 1. Thanks for the reference to the addendum, it would not load from the IDE menu; but I found it and read it. 2. All the references are confusing because they keep referring to Unicode in much too abstract a manner. I am...

Sorry, still a bit confused now that I have XE installed and DOA on XE just installed. I see a new option in TOracleSession.preferences called ConvertUTF with no information in the help file. It has currently defaulted itself to cuUTF8toUTF16. Is that what it should be? I do not know what...

No this application will not have to deal with Unicode. However now I will be in Delphi XE all the strings in the GUI etc. WILL be Unicode strings. This is why I have the questions. Will DOA automatically handle the conversions (in and out) needed with: 1. Dynamically built queries? 2...