aidas2

I'm rly sorry to post in the wrong section but I didn't find a suitable one for my question.
I have Borland delfi7 and I need to make a small program that would help you take care of your stuff on pc. I have almost completed the program, but I need some buttons to work because they're the main buttons that will be used and I don't know how to code them.

1st. Is a button when I press it a new form pops up and should show your/mine pc specs like in steam.

2nd. This is the hardest one. Theres a RadioGroup and two radiobuttons inside and Ok button outside of the group. What I'd like to do is when I sellect 1 of them and press ok a proper Form opens. how to do that?
1 of the selection should be like search for unused icons on desktop nad the second should be like search for unused programs is that even possible.

Again I' sorry for posting in the wrong section.

jamiemac2005

1: you should just make another form, then the button's code should look like:
or
2: Again use the code above for the form, if you need to differentiate between the buttons you should do that in the code.

If you need more help on this please post your current code.

Cheers,
Jamey

aidas2

I know how to do the forms but how to make the first button show computer information?
And the second How to do that stuff?

jamiemac2005

It would be the form showing the computer's info. And you need to be more specific with the information you want to show.

And if you're asking how to find unused icons/programs you're going to be pushed to do that in delphi.

aidas2

OK, agian on ress of the button a new form opens and theres all your system spec like in
Steam: http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3100/systemj.png theres like video card info, procesor winows verison all that stuff

jamiemac2005

I don't even know how i'd go about doing this in Delphi, you'll have to research some windows system DLLs because they're involved with showing you the system spec, delphi has no built in (/third party from what i can find) functions to handle this.

Sorry,
Jamey

Stu_computer

easiest way is to do an external call to dxdiag and have it make a text file, then wait for the file to be made (since this will take several seconds may need a loop to test for the file or abort after 15~20 seconds).

next, open the file for reading and loop readline to a string and test the string for the particular data you want ie:


---------------
Display Devices
---------------
Card name: SiS 630/730

when found then write that line to textarea in the new form (or cut the string to suit your needs).


to get your sample report do Start > Run > then type: dxdiag /t c:\report.txt
then use report.txt as a template for what/where data you want is found.

aidas2

Could you post the code? I understand the idea but hawe no idea how to doi it