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My name is Anders Melander.
I was born in 1964 and I live (last time I checked my pulse) in the small town Rode in Denmark with my wife Lone, our two kids Elisabeth, born 1999, and Silke, born 2001, the dog Bozo, a few ducks, 10 chickens, 20-30 fish, 40-50 mice and a partridge in a pear tree. Our house is a large thatched cottage dating from sometime in the 1700s.
If you are looking for information on the Melander family you’re welcome to browse my Genealogy pages.
So what’s up?
I’ve been working as a software developer since the 80s. At present I’m the senior software architect and a partner in a small and very anonymous company.
My weapon of choice is definitely Delphi from CodeGear. I’m fluent in a lot of other languages, but Delphi is the most fun to use.
If you should get the urge to mail me about any of the freeware software projects I’ve published in the past, I must warn you that my Bayesian spam filter has received special secret ninja training in detecting anything that remotely resembles unpaid work. You are always welcome to leave a comment though.
About the site
I’m afraid the site is a bit of a mess at the moment. I’m in the process of transferring content from my old site, which was designed and maintained in notepad, and it’s a lot of work.
MelanderBlog is powered by WordPress with the assistance of far too many heavily customized plugins. These are just some of them:
- BattleField 2 stats
- Brian’s Threaded Comments
- Chunk URLs
- Comment Karma
- File Icons
- NextGEN gallery
- Optimal Title
- TinyMCEComments
- WassUp
- Widgetize Anything
- Lytebox
- WP-Polls
- WP-PostRatings
- WP-Syntax
- WP AJAX Edit Comments
- …and a few others that I’ve modified so much that I can’t even remember where they came from originally.
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- The Drag and Drop Component Suite for Delphi (155)
- Anders Melander: I think I understand what you are trying to do (drag attachments from Outlook to your application...
- Anders Melander: The VirtualFile and VirtualFileStream examples should get you started. Read this message for more...
- Thanny: Does anyone have an example for handling message and file attachment drops from Thunderbird v3?
- StefanL: Thank you. I need one more piece of advice to be able to get started. I use the AsyncTransferTarget as a...
- Anders Melander: The AsyncTransferTarget demo only support the FileGroupDescriptor and FileContents formats. The...
- Alpha Blended Splash Screen in Delphi - Part 2 (29)
- David: Hi! I wonder if it is possible to use into a form with buttons? Thanks
- About (14)
- Anders Melander: Yes, that was the point of the message I linked to, but It's good to get confirmation.
- Dennis McGuire: Just discovered what the problem is. If you are trying to drag and drop under windows 7 (probably...
- Anders Melander: I don't use Vista or Windows 7 so I'm afraid I can't reproduce your problem, but from...
- TGIFImage for Delphi (49)
- HX_unbanned: Well, then there is something wrong with your global variable as it did not do the trick for me....
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Interesting Delphi poll results.
There must be a lot of people using Delphi to get a total of 128 %.
Have found your Drag and Drop Component to be very useful.
It's possible to select more than one choice in the current poll; For example I'm personally using D5, D7 and D2007.
Hey.. Thanks for all the great work.
I’ve been working with Delphi forever and it seems and your name has been there for as long as I can remember.
I would like to thank you for all the years of giving you have done for all the devlopers out there.
I’m sure your rewards have come though the thanks and appreciation you have received. However, know this, there must be a 1000 times as many that have been helped by you that never say anything.
Again, thanks.. keep up the great work and all for the right reasons.
-George
Google'd my last name of "Melander" and noticed your site. Found our name to be rare. More so in America. Hope all is well. Oh, my first name is Roy.
Is the source code to PrintKey 2000 still available?
I have a copy of PrintKey v3.03 and in the about box, it states that I could come to this site to get a copy of the source code for free. However, I can't seem to find it. Is the code and offer still applicable?
I'm not the author of PrintKey.
I've never used PrintKey but AFAIR PrintKey uses TGIFImage and has a comment in the about box about the source code being available from me. However it's not the PrintKey source that is available. It's the TGIFImage source.
I downloaded the DragDrop suite last Friday, and noticed your site was hacked at that time. Can you guarantee no code has been inserted into the source code by the intruders?
None of the downloads were infected.
The attack injected an obfuscated javascript program into all JS files and certain PHP files. "Luckily" the attack was so aggressive that it messed with too many files and broke WordPress so badly that I don't think it managed to propagate away from my sites.
The whole mess started when I got hit by a drive-by attack from an otherwise legitimate web-site [read: they got hit too]. The web-site downloaded a trojan to my computer, installed a root-kit, grabbed all my FTP passwords from FileZilla and began propagating to all the sites I have write-access to. Although my virus scanner didn't catch the initial infection, it did catch and wipe the secondary infections when the trojan attempted to infect various Windows system files.
I ejected the trojan and cleaned up the web sites with the help of the SysInternals AutoRuns and Process Explorer tools and the Unmask Parasites web site.
Seems like a serious trojan. I'm glad you've been able to get rid of it!
Been using your componet for a while - its great! However, we have found it doesn't work to well in windows 7. XP yes, windows 7 no - don't know about vista. Even in your outlooktarget demo it doesn't recognize that a drop can occur.
Any ideas?
Thanks in Advance
I don't use Vista or Windows 7 so I'm afraid I can't reproduce your problem, but from what I've heard UAC has pretty much crippled drag/drop.
Please read this post. Does that help?
Just discovered what the problem is. If you are trying to drag and drop under windows 7 (probably vista too) both dragger and dropper needs to be at the same security level. i.e. administrator,administrtor, or user,user. If they are not at the same level drag and drop doesn't work.
Yes, that was the point of the message I linked to, but It's good to get confirmation.