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This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto a form's background. This variant, though, resides in a module and is called by a form instead of residing within the form's code itself. This permits using the feature project-wide without redundant code all over the place.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto an MDI parent form's background. Getting an image onto an MDI parent is easy. Getting a tiled one is another story. We could try using a Clipboard operation, or build a big tiled background and save it and then laod it into the MDI parent's Picture property, but these are nasty, anal-retentive, and likely to simply not work. This code, however, works...

Protect your EXEs/OCXs/DLLs by CRC checksum verification - and do it QUICKLY! Several methods exist to detect file modification, and CRC checking is one of the best. However, CRC checksum generation in VB is slow. Until Fredrik Qvarfort came along, that is... His CRC generator code is amazingly fast. If you combine his CRC code with Detonate's CRC-check-the-whole-EXE idea, you get the code presented here: a file checker that can check a file faster than just about anything else out there and still detect single-byte changes. By fast, we're talking several megabytes a second kind of fast. So fast it takes longer to load a big file into memory in preparation for CRC verification than it does to do the actual verify. Includes a ready-to-compile CRC-"tagging" tool for creating the CRC markers that are used to verify the file's integrity, as well as Fredrik Qvarfort's CRC class code (with his permission) and demo CRC-check project. NOTE: I have not tested this code in VB 5, but it's so straightforward that it should work with little or no modifiations.

RDA makes direct, low-level, byte-precise reads and writes to mass-storage devices easy. No need to have to deal with DOS interrupt calls or any such nonsense - RDA takes care of all the behind-the-scenes work for you. RDA also handles the variations in access methods needed by different Windows versions. RDA can read from or write to any specific sector on a logical drive. And if that's not easy enough, there's even a nonvisual frontend component that makes RDA appallingly easy to use - pick drive/first sector/how many sectors to read, call one procedure to perform the actual read, read data from a property. RDA is based on and inspired by a Delphi unit file called VWIN32, written by Geir Wikran, and incorporates portions of VWIN32 directly. As such, RDA is released under the same licensing terms as VWIN32 - free for personal or commercial use as long as the source itself is never sold or misrepresented. PLEASE NOTE: The RDA distribution includes a demo application which requires the TMPHexEditor/TMPHexEditorEx components package by Markus Stephany. This package is available from http://www.mirkes.de/en/delphi/vcls/hexedit.php.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto a form's background. This variant, though, resides in a module and is called by a form instead of residing within the form's code itself. This permits using the feature project-wide without redundant code all over the place.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto an MDI parent form's background. Getting an image onto an MDI parent is easy. Getting a tiled one is another story. We could try using a Clipboard operation, or build a big tiled background and save it and then laod it into the MDI parent's Picture property, but these are nasty, anal-retentive, and likely to simply not work. This code, however, works...

Protect your EXEs/OCXs/DLLs by CRC checksum verification - and do it QUICKLY! Several methods exist to detect file modification, and CRC checking is one of the best. However, CRC checksum generation in VB is slow. Until Fredrik Qvarfort came along, that is... His CRC generator code is amazingly fast. If you combine his CRC code with Detonate's CRC-check-the-whole-EXE idea, you get the code presented here: a file checker that can check a file faster than just about anything else out there and still detect single-byte changes. By fast, we're talking several megabytes a second kind of fast. So fast it takes longer to load a big file into memory in preparation for CRC verification than it does to do the actual verify. Includes a ready-to-compile CRC-"tagging" tool for creating the CRC markers that are used to verify the file's integrity, as well as Fredrik Qvarfort's CRC class code (with his permission) and demo CRC-check project. NOTE: I have not tested this code in VB 5, but it's so straightforward that it should work with little or no modifiations.

RDA makes direct, low-level, byte-precise reads and writes to mass-storage devices easy. No need to have to deal with DOS interrupt calls or any such nonsense - RDA takes care of all the behind-the-scenes work for you. RDA also handles the variations in access methods needed by different Windows versions. RDA can read from or write to any specific sector on a logical drive. And if that's not easy enough, there's even a nonvisual frontend component that makes RDA appallingly easy to use - pick drive/first sector/how many sectors to read, call one procedure to perform the actual read, read data from a property. RDA is based on and inspired by a Delphi unit file called VWIN32, written by Geir Wikran, and incorporates portions of VWIN32 directly. As such, RDA is released under the same licensing terms as VWIN32 - free for personal or commercial use as long as the source itself is never sold or misrepresented. PLEASE NOTE: The RDA distribution includes a demo application which requires the TMPHexEditor/TMPHexEditorEx components package by Markus Stephany. This package is available from http://www.mirkes.de/en/delphi/vcls/hexedit.php.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto a form's background. This variant, though, resides in a module and is called by a form instead of residing within the form's code itself. This permits using the feature project-wide without redundant code all over the place.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto an MDI parent form's background. Getting an image onto an MDI parent is easy. Getting a tiled one is another story. We could try using a Clipboard operation, or build a big tiled background and save it and then laod it into the MDI parent's Picture property, but these are nasty, anal-retentive, and likely to simply not work. This code, however, works...

Protect your EXEs/OCXs/DLLs by CRC checksum verification - and do it QUICKLY! Several methods exist to detect file modification, and CRC checking is one of the best. However, CRC checksum generation in VB is slow. Until Fredrik Qvarfort came along, that is... His CRC generator code is amazingly fast. If you combine his CRC code with Detonate's CRC-check-the-whole-EXE idea, you get the code presented here: a file checker that can check a file faster than just about anything else out there and still detect single-byte changes. By fast, we're talking several megabytes a second kind of fast. So fast it takes longer to load a big file into memory in preparation for CRC verification than it does to do the actual verify. Includes a ready-to-compile CRC-"tagging" tool for creating the CRC markers that are used to verify the file's integrity, as well as Fredrik Qvarfort's CRC class code (with his permission) and demo CRC-check project. NOTE: I have not tested this code in VB 5, but it's so straightforward that it should work with little or no modifiations.

RDA makes direct, low-level, byte-precise reads and writes to mass-storage devices easy. No need to have to deal with DOS interrupt calls or any such nonsense - RDA takes care of all the behind-the-scenes work for you. RDA also handles the variations in access methods needed by different Windows versions. RDA can read from or write to any specific sector on a logical drive. And if that's not easy enough, there's even a nonvisual frontend component that makes RDA appallingly easy to use - pick drive/first sector/how many sectors to read, call one procedure to perform the actual read, read data from a property. RDA is based on and inspired by a Delphi unit file called VWIN32, written by Geir Wikran, and incorporates portions of VWIN32 directly. As such, RDA is released under the same licensing terms as VWIN32 - free for personal or commercial use as long as the source itself is never sold or misrepresented. PLEASE NOTE: The RDA distribution includes a demo application which requires the TMPHexEditor/TMPHexEditorEx components package by Markus Stephany. This package is available from http://www.mirkes.de/en/delphi/vcls/hexedit.php.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto a form's background. This variant, though, resides in a module and is called by a form instead of residing within the form's code itself. This permits using the feature project-wide without redundant code all over the place.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto an MDI parent form's background. Getting an image onto an MDI parent is easy. Getting a tiled one is another story. We could try using a Clipboard operation, or build a big tiled background and save it and then laod it into the MDI parent's Picture property, but these are nasty, anal-retentive, and likely to simply not work. This code, however, works...

Protect your EXEs/OCXs/DLLs by CRC checksum verification - and do it QUICKLY! Several methods exist to detect file modification, and CRC checking is one of the best. However, CRC checksum generation in VB is slow. Until Fredrik Qvarfort came along, that is... His CRC generator code is amazingly fast. If you combine his CRC code with Detonate's CRC-check-the-whole-EXE idea, you get the code presented here: a file checker that can check a file faster than just about anything else out there and still detect single-byte changes. By fast, we're talking several megabytes a second kind of fast. So fast it takes longer to load a big file into memory in preparation for CRC verification than it does to do the actual verify. Includes a ready-to-compile CRC-"tagging" tool for creating the CRC markers that are used to verify the file's integrity, as well as Fredrik Qvarfort's CRC class code (with his permission) and demo CRC-check project. NOTE: I have not tested this code in VB 5, but it's so straightforward that it should work with little or no modifiations.

RDA makes direct, low-level, byte-precise reads and writes to mass-storage devices easy. No need to have to deal with DOS interrupt calls or any such nonsense - RDA takes care of all the behind-the-scenes work for you. RDA also handles the variations in access methods needed by different Windows versions. RDA can read from or write to any specific sector on a logical drive. And if that's not easy enough, there's even a nonvisual frontend component that makes RDA appallingly easy to use - pick drive/first sector/how many sectors to read, call one procedure to perform the actual read, read data from a property. RDA is based on and inspired by a Delphi unit file called VWIN32, written by Geir Wikran, and incorporates portions of VWIN32 directly. As such, RDA is released under the same licensing terms as VWIN32 - free for personal or commercial use as long as the source itself is never sold or misrepresented. PLEASE NOTE: The RDA distribution includes a demo application which requires the TMPHexEditor/TMPHexEditorEx components package by Markus Stephany. This package is available from http://www.mirkes.de/en/delphi/vcls/hexedit.php.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto a form's background. This variant, though, resides in a module and is called by a form instead of residing within the form's code itself. This permits using the feature project-wide without redundant code all over the place.

This code, which was inspired by a similar snippet of code by Ian Ippolito, permits tiling an image onto an MDI parent form's background. Getting an image onto an MDI parent is easy. Getting a tiled one is another story. We could try using a Clipboard operation, or build a big tiled background and save it and then laod it into the MDI parent's Picture property, but these are nasty, anal-retentive, and likely to simply not work. This code, however, works...

Protect your EXEs/OCXs/DLLs by CRC checksum verification - and do it QUICKLY! Several methods exist to detect file modification, and CRC checking is one of the best. However, CRC checksum generation in VB is slow. Until Fredrik Qvarfort came along, that is... His CRC generator code is amazingly fast. If you combine his CRC code with Detonate's CRC-check-the-whole-EXE idea, you get the code presented here: a file checker that can check a file faster than just about anything else out there and still detect single-byte changes. By fast, we're talking several megabytes a second kind of fast. So fast it takes longer to load a big file into memory in preparation for CRC verification than it does to do the actual verify. Includes a ready-to-compile CRC-"tagging" tool for creating the CRC markers that are used to verify the file's integrity, as well as Fredrik Qvarfort's CRC class code (with his permission) and demo CRC-check project. NOTE: I have not tested this code in VB 5, but it's so straightforward that it should work with little or no modifiations.

RDA makes direct, low-level, byte-precise reads and writes to mass-storage devices easy. No need to have to deal with DOS interrupt calls or any such nonsense - RDA takes care of all the behind-the-scenes work for you. RDA also handles the variations in access methods needed by different Windows versions. RDA can read from or write to any specific sector on a logical drive. And if that's not easy enough, there's even a nonvisual frontend component that makes RDA appallingly easy to use - pick drive/first sector/how many sectors to read, call one procedure to perform the actual read, read data from a property. RDA is based on and inspired by a Delphi unit file called VWIN32, written by Geir Wikran, and incorporates portions of VWIN32 directly. As such, RDA is released under the same licensing terms as VWIN32 - free for personal or commercial use as long as the source itself is never sold or misrepresented. PLEASE NOTE: The RDA distribution includes a demo application which requires the TMPHexEditor/TMPHexEditorEx components package by Markus Stephany. This package is available from http://www.mirkes.de/en/delphi/vcls/hexedit.php.