Storing and Calling an MDI Child Form from a DLL in Delphi applications
Friday January 30, 2009
in MDI Dev. :: Need to modularize your application? Learn how to place a Delphi MDI child form into a dynamic link library (DLL) and how to display the ... Read More
Creating and using a resource only DLL in Delphi
Thursday January 29, 2009
eCourse :: Besides storing resource files inside an .EXE file, a Delphi developer can also create a dynamic link library containing only resources. Dynamic link libraries contain sharable code or ... Read More
Calculate MD5 Checksum for a File or String from Delphi
Tuesday January 27, 2009
in Delphi Algorithms :: The MD5 Message-Digest algorithm is a cryptographic hash function. MD5 is commonly used to check the integrity of files. An MD5 hash value is a 32 ... Read More
Convert Roman Number to Arabic / Integer Numbers using Delphi
Monday January 26, 2009
in Delphi TIPS :: An example of a different numeral system is the system of Roman numerals, which could represent all the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000 using only seven ... Read More
Controling DLL Loading and Initialization in Delphi applications
Sunday January 25, 2009
DLLs :: When you are writing dynamic link libraries and need to control the loading and unloading of a DLL, or if you want to initialize your DLL when it ... Read More
Delphi for .NET FCL Examples Reference
Friday January 23, 2009
Delphi for .NET :: Looking for Delphi for .NET demos / source code samples? Look no further, Delphi for .NET FCL Examples Reference is what you are looking for! Part ... Read More
Implementing OnMouseOver for Items in a TComboBox, with custom Hints
Thursday January 22, 2009
Delphi VCL Ideas :: Here's how to get the caption of an item in a TComboBox as mouse hovers over an item when the ComboBox is in drop down ... Read More
A Real World Delphi Developer Question: Class Object Name Retrieval...
Tuesday January 20, 2009
in Visitor Asks :: I've received this email from a visitor to the About Delphi Programming (this) site. Let's see if we all can help with answers. If you have ... Read More
Override Global Screen.Cursor Change for a Cancel type Button
Monday January 19, 2009
in Delphi TIPS :: When you want to run a lengthy process in your application that needs no user iteraction, you can change the value of the Screen.Cursor property to ... Read More
Delphi TTreeView with Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
Monday January 19, 2009
VCL Usage ::
Here's how to add check boxes and radio buttons to a TTreeView Delphi component. Give your applications a more professional and smoother look.
Delphi's TTreeview doesn't natively ... Read More
Retrieve Control Identifiers on a Common Dialog using Delphi + Change any Text
Sunday January 18, 2009
TIPS :: Need to change embedded text on ANY control in Windows common dialogs? Suppose you have Form1 with PrintDialog1 (TPrintDialog) component and would like to change (localize) its "Print" ... Read More
Enumerating available SQL Servers using Delphi code + Retrieving databases on a SQL Server
Thursday January 15, 2009
in Delphi does SQL :: If you are doing database development with Delphi and Microsoft's SQL Server is your choice (I'm thinking of using Delphi over ADO and OLE ... Read More
TShellTreeView with CheckBoxes - Custom Delphi TShellTreeView Enhancement
Tuesday January 13, 2009
in Custom Delphi VCL ::
The aim of the article is to create a component that would allow a user to select files for a backup program in a user ... Read More
Programmatically Download a File from the Internet with Progress Indicator using Delphi
Saturday January 10, 2009
Delpohi TIPS :: If you need to save the contents of a specified URL to a file - and be able to track the download progress, use the TDownLoadURL Delphi ... Read More
Retrieving volume's (disk / drive) Serial Number using Delphi
Friday January 9, 2009
in Advanced Delphi :: In short, the serial number of a (logical) drive is generated every time a drive is formatted. When Windows formats a drive, a drive's serial number ... Read More
Shortcut Target Finder - Delphi application to Locate Shortcuts and their Targets
Thursday January 8, 2009
Shell Programming :: A sample Delphi application, with full source code, that can be used to locate all the shortcut files (.LNK) on a drive (directory) and find the target ... Read More
The Many Faces of Delphi Routines: Functions and Procedures
Tuesday January 6, 2009
in Delphi :: With the inclusion of anonymous methods in Delphi 2009, Delphi language has a new weapon in its "what a routine can do and be used for, and ... Read More
Sort a Generic Delphi List using an Anonymous Comparer Method
Monday January 5, 2009
in Delphi TIPS :: Delphi 2009 adds Generics and Anonymous methods to the Delphi language. When you have objects in some list - one of a commonly required tasks is ... Read More
Colored TButton - TColorButton - Delphi Button with Color Properties
Friday January 2, 2009
ARTICLES ::
Full source code of the TColorButton Delphi component, an extension to the standard TButton control, with font color, background color and mouse-over color properties.
Read the full article to ... Read More