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Hi, I just had to reformat my hard drive and although I have been working on BCB5, I had to install BCB6 since that is the only one we have in the office. When I tried to compile my project I ended up with a fatal error: Unable to open file: COW32.obj Does anyone have any idea what this...

HI All, I have been trying to get this right for ages, and have ended up with about 10 lines of code for what I;m sure can be done in 1 statement! I have a block of data stored in the registry. The block is binary: Ax Bx Cx Dx Ex Fx Gx Hx (8 Bytes) Here is my problem: ExFx is an Integer I...

Anyone have any pointers to how I can stop / start and read the playing time of a CD in the computers CDRom drive? Thanks, Steph

Does anyone know how I can convert an AnsiString into a UTF8 coded string? The word UTF8 does not even see to be in any of the Help files with Borland C++ Builder 5!! Any help would be much appreciated!

I am writing a simple plugin system for one of my programs usng DLLs (Dyamically linked, using GetProcAddress), but have run into a problem: I am passing the pointer to a TTreeView to one of the functions in the DLL, but when the DLL tried to add a node to that TreeView, it throws and...

Hi, I am trying to write a unicode application for windows, but not having much luck. I noticed that on Internet Explorer (and other windows programs, even the 'Run' box) you can paste in double-byte characters (chinese in this case, I ctrl-c the text from Yahoo! Hong Kong website). The text...

Hi All, I am writing an IRC client. For the main message list I am using a TListBox set to LBOwnerDrawFixed. I do this because I want to display the Username first (in one color) and then the message (in another color). Everything works fine except that the ListBox has no word wrap.. When I...

Hi All, I am having serious problems with the ftp part of a program I am writing. I have a several TClientSocket, the first of which connects to the control port (21) of the ftp server. The other one is used to actually x-fer the data (on a port assigned using PASV). My problem is that when I...

Hi All, I am using a TStringGrid in a progra, with one fixed row and no fixed columns. When I write to the 3nd row of the grid, the program unexpectly terminates? I can't figure out any reason.. no errors, no exxceptions, nothing. Just quits! I have ensured there are enough rows to write to...

Hey All, I am trying to make a connection to an SQL server using a TClientSocket with BCB5. Although I have no problem reading and writing data to other connections (FTP, SMTP, HTTP etc) I can't seem to get any sense out of a connection to a remote MySQL server. When I use ReceiveBuf I just...

Hi again, I have a line of code from an example program like this: CComBSTR bstrFileName( L"c:\\Test.avi" ); I want to replace the text with a string variable read from a text file. So I have something like... char *FileName; . . . CComBSTR bstrFileName( charFileName ); But...

Hi All, I am trying to figure out how to use Windows Media Encoder in a BCB application. I have some VBS code that does what I need, but I want to do it in C++. Here is a snipit of the VBS code: [code] ' Create Encoder Object Dim encoder Set encoder =...