On (03 Sep 95) Frank Malcolm wrote to Keith Richardson...



 FM> Hi, Keith.



 FM> Thanks for the Delphi stuff. I've just been through all the FAQs, but

 FM> haven't applied the patches yet (need a bit more disk space on the D:

 FM> drive - not all of us have... :-))



it must be hell being poor  (:



 FM> I can't quite remember your MDI child question, but I'm pretty sure it's

 FM> addressed in one of the FAQ files. And one of the patches also mentions

 FM> something about an enhancement to MDI.



i was trying to launch an mdi child from an mdi frame that consists of a

tabbed notebook, and the children were coming up *behind* the notebook.

i have since got over that by defining the child window as a normal

window (i didn't know that you could do that) in fact i have found that

you can even launch a child window from a child window. delphi is good.

it would be great if it didn't use {at}#!!%$# pascal, nikolas wirth should

be raped with a large rasp (:



i had a couple of fun evenings trying to work out why a file of records

something like this:-



type

  MsgHeader =  record

    Filler:    Word;

    MsgDate:   string[9];

end;

ListFile =   file of MsgHeader;



should give strange results when reading a file written by another

application until i did a bit of lateral thinking and used the

definition to write a file and found out that pascal puts the character

count at the head of the string ie:-



fred: string[9];

fred := 'abcdefghi';



would be written to the file as $09'abcdefghi'



changing the definition to :-



MsgDate: array[1..9] of char;



fixed it. c is so much more logical (:



                        Keith



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