inside the DBGrid :: Why not! If you have a database table containing a date (time) field you could/should be tempted to provide a calendar-like drop down selection for a ... Read More

Custom VCL :: Full source code of a TadpEdit Delphi component, an extension to the standard TEdit control with properties like: ColorOnEnter (changes the background color of the control when ... Read More

in Delphi VCL :: Even the birds know that Delphi is a great tool when custom component creation is in question. Let's consider the TPanel Delphi control, when you drop ... Read More

in Delphi TIPS :: Delphi's ShowMessage procedure, defined in the dialogs.pas unit, displays a message in a dialog box, waits for the user to click an OK button. I'm using ... Read More

in Delphi Lang :: Imagine the next situation: you were coding some It-can-do-anything super function for a few days and just as you thought it is now finished your fellow ... Read More

IP Programming :: Network Traffic Monitor is a network analytic tool that examines local area network usage and provides a display of upload and download statistics. The main purpose of ... Read More

Creating Custom Delphi Components :: Full source code of a TadpMRU component, a non-visual component which simplifies implementing a "Most Recently Used" file list in a menu (or a ... Read More

in FDAC :: If you are like me, you like experimenting - creating pieces of Delphi code just to learn something new and create something interesting. If nothing else, ... Read More

in TRichEdit :: Delphi's implementation of the rich editor control (TRichEdit) does *not* expose the default context popup menu when the rich edit is right-clicked. Read the full article ... Read More

in Delphi TIPS :: I needed to create my own customized "MessageDlg" message box with custom buttons, but I still wanted to have access to those spiffy icons that appear ... Read More

TIPS :: Here's an example of how to play simple sounds on the PC speaker... Read the full article to learn how to Programmatically Play Sounds on the PC Speaker ... Read More

in Delphi VCL :: Here's how to add URL hyperlink functionality to a TRichEdit component - whenever the text in a RichEdit matches the format of a URL, the control ... Read More

RTL'n'VCL :: A stream is what its name suggests: a flowing "river of data". A stream has a beginning, an end, and you're always somewhere in between of these two ... Read More

in FDAC :: The Dock is feature of the GUI of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, which is used to launch applications, and switch between running applications. "McLauncher" is ... Read More

in Delphi TIPS :: When working with files from Delphi you might want to display the size of a file to the user in a Explorer-like format where the file ... Read More

in Delphi TIPS :: An INF file (or Setup Information file) is a plain text (ASCII) file used by Windows for installation of software and drivers. INF files provide the ... Read More

Adding components to a DBGrid :: Here's how to place a DBLookupComboBox into a DBGrid. Create visually more attractive user interfaces for editing lookup fields inside a DBGrid - place ... Read More

A Beginner's Guide to Delphi Programming :: While developing a (large) Delphi application, as program becomes more complex, its source code can become very hard to maintain. In this ... Read More

in FDAC :: Snake game has its history roots in the late 1970s. The player controls a snake which gets bigger by every piece of food it "eats". Snake must ... Read More

in Delphi TIPS :: Sometimes we need to know if a string matches a pattern, which is a string with wild cards (for example "?" and "*"). Read the full article ... Read More

in Questions :: I'm working on a project where I need to process some existing PDF documents. What I need to know about a particular PDF document is the following: ... Read More

Advanced Delphi :: Learn how to send messages (signals) to non-windowed applications by using AllocateHWND and DefWindowProc. In this article we also briefly describe what Delphi does in the background ... Read More