Archive for June, 2005

Last Day at Agni

It’s my last day at Agni Software. It’s been a remarkable 7 years here, and I’ve had a lot of fun and learning at Agni. I was a tinhorn when I started, and I’m a little less of one now - I don’t file notches on my guns, but I haven’t learnt to shoot any [...]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 30th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Skype - and how to use it in Delphi

Skype has a public API, and it’s almost impossible to find. Actually there’s no specific file for the API - Skype itself responds to calls using WM_COPYDATA. It’ll also send you notifications - stuff that you must handle in your form’s Message Handler.
Ok, this isn’t that simple to explain. Check out a sample Skype [...]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 30th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

.Text Comment Spam

I got hit recently with a lot of Comment Spam on my TeamB blog. It was incredibly boring to sit and delete all of the spam comments - which, because of what I would only call laziness, had grown to around 500 in number - since .Text only allows you to delete one comment at [...]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 27th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Setting focussed button with Message Dlg

One of the things I’ve had to do manually many times is to have dialog boxes pop up, but logically "OK" should not be the focussed button. (Like "Do you want to format this disk?")
In Delphi, you’d usually call MessageDlg for a dialog that had a Yes/No/Cancel or an Ok/Cancel input only - but [...]

Posted by Deepak Shenoy on June 17th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

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