Category Archives: RoundAbout

Treeview and storage

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve not written a while about programming, let alone anything about that mailing program, RoundAbout. Today’s subject is the Windows TreeView control and its data section, the TreeNodes. As you probably know, a TreeView shows data in an hierarchical way, … Continue reading →

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Yo, autocomplete.

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Arthur

One of my biggest pet peeves is ‘AutoComplete’: the functionality of a text box to suggest (and complete) previously entered data. I’ve seen many bad implementations and the one fresh out of memory I can remember is Opera’s URL box, … Continue reading →

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The State of the Machine

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Arthur

I get cranky when I see people use regular expressions or simple substring routines when extracting strings from, for example, e-mail addresses. The first method, while powerful, is memory hungry, the second method is plain childish. You should only use … Continue reading →

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Barba-what?

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Arthur

Staying on the programming topic: One of the best parts of Roundabout (previously) was the filtering mechanism: before mail was downloaded, the user could (if needed) invoke the Filter dialog box and mark which mails were going to be downloaded … Continue reading →

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Retro-Code

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Arthur

I was looking for older code through some older projects and I ended up looking at the code of RoundAbout, a Delphi project I headed with a German (Roland), an American (Marcos) and plenty of other contributors. I thought, I … Continue reading →

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Autosizing memo that autocompletes

Posted on December 14, 2003 by Arthur

For the RB project someone asked me to write an autosizing and autocompleting memobox. Currently the ‘To field’ is implemented as an ‘autocompleting’ combobox: well, typically this combobox was written by myself too. When implementing that combobox I already warned … Continue reading →

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Addressbooks

Posted on November 23, 2003 by Arthur

After nearly 4 or 5 months of inactivity I’ll be breathing some life back into RB. I already had planned a couple of changes to the user interface just so I can remove the weird components and build on my … Continue reading →

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MIME stuff

Posted on September 2, 2003 by Arthur

Earlier this week someone (hi Marcos) notified me that one mailer apparantly breaks up attachments in RB. I traced the problem to the following difference: [RB] Content-type: ….[cut] Name=RB settings mods.txt [Npop] Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”readme.txt” I’m totally confused. … Continue reading →

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