About Delphi Programming Tips - 1999

The button on the Windows TaskBar, for a Delphi application, belongs to the Application window, the hidden window maintained by the Application object, not the main form window. To hide your Delphi application from the taskbar you need to change some specific attributes of the actual window. Here's how.

Need to take a Windows desktop screen shoot from Delphi code? No problem ... here's how to capture the Windows desktop image into a TBitmap object - and display it inside a TImage control.

·ToolTip Font Hint Properties
·Date/Time and other International Settings
·Window Flashing
·Open & Close CD-drive

·DelTree Function
·From/To the 8.3 Format To/From The Long Format
·Get Files "Last Modified" Attribute
·Reading a Directory's Content

·Left, Mid, Right String
·Reverse a String
·Search And Replace
·Convert The First Letter In Any Word To A Capital

·Rotating Fonts
·Checking If File Is In Use
·Capture Maximize/Minimize Buttons
·Enlarge a Form Over Screen Size

·Making a Form Non-Moveable
·Execute the Windows Explorer Find File Dialog Box
·Delete Files With the Ability to UNDO
·Add documents to the Windows Start-Documents Menu
·Making a Transparent Form

·Convert the First Character in an Edit Box to
·Uppercase
·Using the RunOnce Registry Key
·Select a Block of Code by Column

·Setting Paradox password automatically ·Enable/Disable the Windows "START" button ·Is IDE running ·Hint and Warning messages ·Show/Hide the TaskBar in Windows 95

·Conversion from ICO to BMP
·Prevent CTRL+DELETE in DBGrid
·Extract Icon and paint on Form
·Detecting Drive Types

·Desktop to Bitmap
·Remove App from TaskBar
·Show window contents while dragging
·Life Cycle Of A Form
·Updating Cursor immediately