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Category Archives: RoundAbout
Treeview and storage
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
Yo, autocomplete.
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
The State of the Machine
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
Barba-what?
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
Retro-Code
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
Autosizing memo that autocompletes
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
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
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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