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I have a TTreeView in Delphi, with nodes at three levels. I use node data to store another label besides the node text. Type TNodeData = class ExtraNodeLabel: WideString; //... other members ...
Quintuplet asked 5/7, 2013 at 12:14

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I have just seen a bit of code (D5) where they used... aStr:=tblAcct.FieldByName('Name').Text; It seems to work fine but I have always used... aStr:=tblAcct.FieldByName('Name').AsString; I ha...
Emmanuel asked 2/4, 2013 at 15:37

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i am hosting Internet Explorer in a Windows application. i can scroll down to the bottom of the document. When i then try to scroll back up i get a division by zero exception: When i scroll usin...
Gallion asked 27/2, 2012 at 21:5

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How do i get the EXCEPTION_POINTERS, i.e. both: PEXCEPTION_RECORD and PCONTEXT data during an EExternal exception? Background When Windows throws an exception, it passes a PEXCEPTION_POINTER...
Brittabrittain asked 13/2, 2013 at 15:34

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Where and when is the Application instance created? (Same goes for the Screen instance) . I don't see anything in the Forms or System initialization section. In the CPU windows before Applicatio...
Rab asked 7/2, 2013 at 17:32

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This is related to the question How to show a check box in TListView header column?. I want to use the code from this answer by @Sertac Akyuz. (I need this to work in WinXP also) But I want to ma...
Nez asked 4/2, 2013 at 14:4

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A blog entry from Raymond Chen today made me realize the elegant solution to a problem i'm having. Various shell functions, rather than all taking ITEM­ID­LIST structure, can be made to only accep...
Nephelometer asked 24/1, 2013 at 18:8

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I am looking for an implementation of TFlowPanel (or similar) that will work with D5. Basically I need the TFlowPanel to work inside a TScrollBox (with Vertical scroll bar), so the controls will w...
Madea asked 4/11, 2012 at 15:49

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Hello I am building my delphi project using the following command: Command: dcc32.exe project.dpr d:\exe_folder The above command works good and I am able to cerate the exe in output folder. But...
Oystercatcher asked 20/8, 2012 at 14:40

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i want to render a web-page (i.e. TWebBrowser) to a device context. i want to use Internet Explorer's layout engine to render content to a device context (i.e. metafile, pdf metafile). Starting ...
Cockcroft asked 4/6, 2012 at 15:42

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Does Delphi assign an instance variable before the object is fully constructed? In other words, given a variable: var customer: TCustomer = nil; we then construct a customer and assign it to...
Christenechristening asked 29/5, 2012 at 19:53

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i am fetching some XML from a government web-site: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/stats/assets/rates_rss/noon/en_all.xml i am using the following, fairly simple code: var szUrl: string; http: IXMLHT...
Stutman asked 30/3, 2012 at 15:10

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My Question is similar to the idea here: Replacing a component class in delphi. But I need to change a specific component(s) class on demand. Here is some pseudo demo code: unit Unit1; TForm1 = c...
Buffoon asked 26/3, 2012 at 18:34

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Has anyone successfully used WebKit in Delphi? WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari,...
Sidney asked 6/3, 2012 at 18:32

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I have added these two methods to the 1st unit of my Delphi 5 application. function Inp(PortAddress: Integer): Integer; stdcall; external 'inpout32.dll' name 'Inp32'; procedure Output(PortAddress...
Interventionist asked 13/2, 2012 at 16:3

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In Delphi 5, I've currently written code that calls Free on multiple variables in a finally block, e.g. ... finally a.Free; b.Free; c.Free; end; This code assumes that Free can never raise, s...
Overstretch asked 8/2, 2012 at 10:0

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i am trying to call EnumSystemLocales in Delphi. For example: { Called for each supported locale. } function LocalesCallback(Name: PChar): BOOL; stdcall; begin OutputDebugString(Name); Result :=...
Despain asked 23/12, 2011 at 15:13

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Here is my code: type TForm1 = class(TForm) WebBrowser1: TWebBrowser; Button1: TButton; Button2: TButton; procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject); procedure Button2Click(Sender: TObject); e...
Embarrassment asked 20/11, 2011 at 9:22

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My app is written in Delphi5. I am using madExcept to track down bugs. I tracked down a "Floating point dvision by zero" exception, where it shouldn't be. The code segment, where it is raised, goes...
Shelly asked 8/11, 2011 at 8:10

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I'm using FastMM 4.97 in my application in Delphi5. Everything works well, if I run my application from the IDE with an intentional leak for test purposes. I get proper notices and error logs. Ho...
Imprecision asked 8/9, 2011 at 7:48

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In Delphi1, using FloatToStrF or CurrToStrF will automatically use the DecimalSeparator character to represent a decimal mark. Unfortunately DecimalSeparator is declared in SysUtils as Char1,2: va...

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i am trying to construct a (test) WideString of: á (U+00E1 Small Letter Latin A with acute) but using it's decomposed form: LATIN SMALL LETTER A (U+0061) COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (U+0301) S...
Canthus asked 11/8, 2011 at 16:12

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Might it is very simple question but I never touched delphi. I have a edit box and that can accept character. But on some special condition I have to verify the edit box character are only numbers....
Soubise asked 23/6, 2011 at 13:23

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i've been trying to get some modeless forms in my application to appear on the taskbar - taking advantage of the new useful taskbar in Windows 7. There's are many issues with the VCL that need to ...
Tildy asked 21/10, 2010 at 13:51

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I have taken over support for some applications written in Delphi. I have programming experience, but none in Delphi, and very little in OOP. In the opinion of experienced Delphi programmers,...
Purpure asked 15/3, 2011 at 17:44

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