Delphi tips: VCL (Visual Component Library) Usage

Delphi programming tips and tricks, visual component library related.

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Activate a control hint from code

Enable or disable a control by name

Add a Check Box to a standard dialog box

Add columns to a ListBox

Clear All Edit Controls on a Form

Convert the First Character in an Edit Box to Uppercase

Drag from ListBox to Edit

Drag'n'Drop nodes inside TreeView

Get Cursor position in TRichEdit

Get the line number from a RichEdit

Get the full HTML from the TWebBrowser component

Get the RTF formatting from a RichEdit

Hide caret (text cursor) "inside" TMemo component

How to Break a Long Menu into Columns in a Delphi application

How to clear the graphics in a TImage Delphi control

How to check if a document in a TWebBrowser is located on a local drive

How to complete partial strings typed into a combo box

How to click-and-select a line in TMemo

How to create, use and free TXMLDocument dynamically (without an AV)

How to Change the Colors of the TProgressBar

How to Detect a TPopupMenu's OnClose (OnPopDown) Event in Delphi applications

How to exchange Bitmap images between two TImageList components

How to merge strings in two TStringList's

How to Move ListBox Items with the Mouse (Drag and Drop) in Delphi application

How to load HTML directly to a WebBrowser

How to search and replace in RichEdit

How to find what control was previously selected

How to get the current line and column from a Memo

How to get the selected text from a Memo control

How to locate and highlight a string in a TWebBrowser

How to Remove the "Today" Mark from the TDateTimePicker Delphi component

How to Right Align a Menu Item in a Delphi application

Implementing custom sorting for a TListView component

How to sort items in a TList object

How To "HotTrack" any control

How to set margins in Memo

How to set the progress bar position using mouse

How to move PageControl's tabs using drag'n'drop

How to show week numbers in a TDateTimePicker

How to disable Context menu in a TWebBrowser

How to place a TEdit inside a TListBox to simulate inplace editing of ListBox items

How to enable editing of a document in TWebBrowser

How to print a document/page in a TWebBrowser

How to right-align items in a TComboBox / TListBox

How to remeber Delphi form controls position and size

How to call the Find dialog in WebBrowser

How to call the View Source dialog in WebBrowser

How to append HTML directly to a WebBrowser document

How to add the "Select All (CTRL+A)" functionality to TMemo/TDBMemo

How to exchange Bitmap images between two TImageList components

Implementing Application.Restart

Moving the focus to the next edit control when MaxLength characters have been reached

Label: FocusControl

ListBox with a horizontal scroll bar

Long ListBox entries as hints

Overwrite in TMemo and TEdit

Positioning the caret in a line in a Memo or RichEdit

Raising TPageControl's OnChagning and OnChange events from code

Rounding control corners

Select ListBox items as mouse hovers over them

Setting a multi-line Caption for a TLabel (at design-time)

Set Tab Stops for TMemo

Scrolling Memo text from code

ToolTip font hint properties

TButton with multiline Caption

Using an object with no reference variable

Using TWebBrowser to preview (and print) Microsoft Word documents

Use arrow keys to move between controls

What's the word under the mouse cursor in a TRichEdit?

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