Delphi Week in Review!
Sunday April 30, 2006
04/24-30/2006 :: "Week in Review" is an overview of the news, happenings, interesting postings and in general anything that was related to Delphi in the last 7 days (posted by ... Read More
How to Print the Content of a TMemo component
Saturday April 29, 2006
TIPS :: Simple procedure that prints the content of a Memo component...
Managing Ascii (Text) Files from Code
Friday April 28, 2006
FILE IO :: Reading and writing to text (ascii) files using Delphi code. Find out how to read line by line of a txt file and how to write ... Read More
How to correctly use the Mouse Wheel in DBGrid
Thursday April 27, 2006
TDBGrid Stuff :: Mouse wheel behaves strangely with dbgrids - this code handler will correct this behavior.
Just drop a TApplicationEvents ("Additional" tab on the Component Palette) component on a ... Read More
Create a Windows Start-Up Manager
Tuesday April 25, 2006
ARTICLES ::
Have you ever asked yourself where are those applications that seem to be executed when Windows start, you cannot find in the Start - StartUp Windows menu?
Or, how ... Read More
Create a Resizable Form with No Border
Monday April 24, 2006
TIPS :: The bsNone is used when you want to remove the Border and the caption bar from the form - leaving only the content visible. This setting is ... Read More
Delphi Week in Review!
Sunday April 23, 2006
04/17-23/2006 :: "Week in Review" is an overview of the news, happenings, interesting postings and in general anything that was related to Delphi in the last 7 days (posted by ... Read More
TMediaPlayer: What track am I on?
Saturday April 22, 2006
TIPS :: Drop a TMediaPlayer component on the form, with all the properties correctly set and bound to the CD player. Also, add "MMSystem" unit to the uses clause in ... Read More
Creating Menus (working with TMainMenu VCL component)
Friday April 21, 2006
ARTICLES :: In this article, we will see how to extend the MyNotepad project. Designing the right kind of menus will make your application much more easily to work ... Read More
Drawing images in DBGrid
Thursday April 20, 2006
DBGrid related :: Designed to enable a user to view and edit data in a tabular grid, the TDBGrid component provides various ways of customizing its appearance. With so ... Read More
Borland Developer Studio 2006 Update 2 Released!
Wednesday April 19, 2006
BDS 2006 Update 2 for Borland Developer Studio (BDS) 2006, also known as Delphi 2006, C++Builder 2006, and C#Builder 2006 has been released. Over 500 bug reports tracked by ... Read More
Create a Time Out Button / Entry Form in Delphi
Tuesday April 18, 2006
VCL Ideas :: If you are developing a "quiz-like" type of application, or an "exam-like" application, a user needs to make a selection and click the "Next" button, to ... Read More
TListBox with Radio Buttons
Monday April 17, 2006
ListBox Tips :: The TListBox VCL component displays a collection of items in a scrollable list. The MultiSelect property determines if a user can select more than one item. ... Read More
Delphi Week in Review!
Sunday April 16, 2006
04/10-16/2006 "Week in Review" is an overview of the news, happenings, interesting postings and in general anything that was related to Delphi in the last 7 days (posted by respected ... Read More
Add an Easter Egg to your Delphi application
Saturday April 15, 2006
FUN :: Looking for some hidden fun in Delphi? Find out what are Easter Eggs and how to add them to your applications. Find out how to add cheat ... Read More
Using TFindDialog and TReplaceDialog
Friday April 14, 2006
ARTICLES :: The TFindDialog and TReplaceDialog components display a modeless Windows dialog box that prompts the user for a search (and replace) string, with a variety of search and ... Read More
Adjusting DBGrid Column Widths Automatically
Thursday April 13, 2006
DBGrid :: Here's a handy method to automatically fix the size of TDBGrid columns (at run-time) to fit the DBGrid width (remove the unfilled space at the right edge of ... Read More
How to Build your First "Hello World Virus"
Tuesday April 11, 2006
ARTICLES :: Who said programming cannot be fun? Let's create a simple "memory eater" that executes itself an unlimited number of times - thus consuming all the Windows ... Read More
How to Display "Bold" Items in the TTreeView
Sunday April 9, 2006
TIPS :: By default (Windows drawing), all items (tree nodes) of a tree view share the same font styling. If you only want to apply *bold* to some tree ... Read More
Delphi Week in Review!
Sunday April 9, 2006
04/03-09/2006 "Week in Review" is an overview of the news, happenings, interesting postings and in general anything that was related to Delphi in the last 7 days (posted by respected ... Read More
How to Send a Character to another Window
Saturday April 8, 2006
TIPS :: Here's a simple Delphi code you can use to send/insert a character into another application - Notepad, for example.
Note: here's how to send keystrokes to another application.
Create your Own Notepad using TOpenDialog and TSaveDialog
Friday April 7, 2006
ARTICLES :: While working with various Windows applications and Delphi, we've become accustomed to operating with one of the standard dialog boxes for opening and saving a file, finding ... Read More
Prevent CTRL + DELETE (delete record using keyboard) in DBGrid
Thursday April 6, 2006
TDBGrid Related :: How to disable keyboard delete operation inside a DBGrid.
How to Dynamically Add Items (Holding Custom Properties) to a TPopUp Delphi Menu
Tuesday April 4, 2006
RUN-TIME Dev. :: How to add menu items to a Menu (or Popup menu) at run-time, how to respond to the OnClick event. Plus: how to extend the TMenuItem ... Read More
How to Access a TRadioButton from a TRadioGroup - Disable, Change Font, etc.
Monday April 3, 2006
TIPS :: The TRadioGroup Delphi component represents a group of radio buttons that function together. To add radio buttons to a TRadioGroup, edit the Items property - each string ... Read More
Delphi Week in Review!
Sunday April 2, 2006
03/27-04.02/2006 :: "Week in Review" is an overview of the news, happenings, interesting postings and in general anything that was related to Delphi in the last 7 days (posted by ... Read More
Standard Windows Dialogs (Open, Save, etc.): Changing Default Button Title from Delphi code
Saturday April 1, 2006
TIPS :: Suppose you have a Delphi Form with OpenDialog1 (TOpenDialog) component and would like to change its button title from default 'Open' to something else...