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By Zarko Gajic, About.com Guide to Delphi Programming

Memo to the Max

Saturday September 6, 2003
TIPS :: Ever needed to set some additional properties to the standard Memo component? By default you use the Tmemo when you need a standard Windows multiline edit control on a form. Here are some nifty TMemo related tips and tricks:
  • Creating your own Notepad (with Open, Save, Search and Replace, etc...)
  • How to add the "Select All (CTRL+A)" functionality to TMemo/TDBMemo
  • How to click-and-select a line in TMemo
  • Getting the current line and column from a Memo.
  • Positioning the caret in a line in a Memo
  • Setting margins in Memo
  • Scrolling Memo text from code
  • How to get the selected text from a Memo control
  • How to print a Memo
  • Hide caret (text cursor) inside TMemo component
  • Enable overwrite in TMemo
  • Setting tab stops
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