Hi!, , I am Scott Wehrly, and I am a man of many hats here at Prestwood Software & Consulting! I am the Development Manager, Delphi Team Leader, InterBase guru, Oracle expert, a Project Manager on many applications, and frequent Message Board camper. , , , I have been a software professional since 1978, when I worked on the data management for one of the plaintiffs in the anti-trust case that broke up AT&T. I still have the TRS-80 Model 1 that I bought the year before to teach myself BASIC programming! , , , Most of my experience has been in client/server database design and development, with a smattering of experience in communications and application server development. I have a lot of experience building DLL's (and getting them to work properly between Delphi, C++Builder, and MSVC). My language streng...

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In the spirit of waking up these too-quiet Delphi forums, I want to open up a discussion of technical solutions, and begin a dialog between the board members on their experience with the subject., , , , I want to begin with data encryption. Having just built the first commercial release of our Password PocketBook application, naturally I had to analyze encryption methods., , , , What I want to know is what other Delphi developers have experienced in dealing with encryption - particulary encryption algorithms and data conversions., , [list], [*]1. What have you used for encrypting passwords and other sensitive string data?, [*]2. What worked best for you?, [*]3. What caused problems for you?, [*]4. For database fields (any SQL database), what was the most efficient way you handled field value encryption?, [*]5. What libraries or component products would you recommend?, [/list], , , , For our application, I did review a few libraries and source samples from Torry's and the Delphi Supe...

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We are building and deploying apps on Windows 2000 Professional workstations using Delphi 6 and BDE 5.01., , , , What exactly is the nature of the problem you experience on Win2K?

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In the hope of livening up the Delphi boards a little bit (the paradox users are laughing at us) I have started this Tips thread. The idea being that we can share the little tips we have to make each others lives a little easier. Who knows, if the idea takes off, maybe I can convince Mike to add a dedicated Tips section., , I'll even start the ball rolling! Ever notice how the Mouse wheel only scrolls through the visible records of a DBGrid and then stops? You can rectify this by declaring a public procedure., public, { Public declarations }, procedure AppMessage(var Msg: TMsg; var Handled: Boolean);Then just add the following code as the procedure somewhere on your applications main form., procedure TForm1.AppMessage(var Msg: TMsg; var Handled: Boolean);, var, i: SmallInt;, begin , if Msg.message = WM_MOUSEWHEEL then, begin, Msg.message := WM_KEYDOWN;, Msg.lParam := 0;, i := HiWord(Msg.wParam);, if i > 0 then Msg.wParam := VK_UP else Msg.wParam := VK_DOWN;, ...

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Zzzzzz.... Zzzzzz.... Zzzzzz...., , , , Whu? Someone on the Delphi forums??? I better wake up! , , , , Good, tip, Angel. Of course, Mike will tell you that the place for programming tips is in our [b]Knowledge Base[/b]., , , , But then, if we start moving topics around, it could make the board members go away again., , , , Then I could go back to my Rip Van Winkle impersonation., , , , Zzzzzz.... Zzzzzz.... Zzzzzz....

Posted to MB Topic: Delphi Object PASCAL « Delphi Board

[QUOTE] Visual BASIC was "way too easy for these baboons" [/QUOTE], , Well, Rick, I guess you and I are secure in our [b]Delphi[/b] jobs, eh?

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