I have a Delphi program and I'm looking how this program could print its own "virtual size" in a log file, so that I can see when it used too much memory. How can I determine the "virtual size" usi...

Has anyone ever managed to compile their Delphi 6 & 7 (NOT any Delphi > 7 ) projects using the command line? All the instructions I see are not very clear on what exactly needs to go where! A...

Many times after the Windows 98 era we have experienced that some dialogs lose their Z-Order and move back to the prior form. For example: Dialog1.ShowModal; Dialog1.OnClickButton() : ShowMessag...

Embedded Chromium does not have the same protection as stand-alone Chrome does when it comes to warning users about "bad sites". Users of Chrome are familiar with the warning screen that comes up w...

I have the following issue: we're building a rather large application (win32, Delphi 6 Enterprise). In several part of the application, modal windows are used, usually containing the detail of the ...

In the Delphi code I am looking at I've found the following set of lines: const function1: function(const S: String): String = SomeVariable1; function2: function(const S: String): String = SomeV...

I've come across some code that's throwing an exception (EIntfCasterror Cast not supported) when it passes nil to a constructor expecting a TComponent, like so: obj := SomeClass.Create(nil); The...

We have some legacy code that compiles in Delphi 6. There are plans to rewrite it in a more current IDE, but they are a ways out. When we compile it we get several warnings like this: FPrecision ...

I need somehow to determine whether some TDateTime value is within the Daylight Saving Time range for my timezone or not (in C# the same thing does the DateTime.IsDaylightSavingTime() method). I k...

I have a lot of memory allocations and the same number of FreeMem calls. What I didn't have though is a check before calling freemem to see if the pointer was nil, and a line after freeing to set t...

With Delphi-6 there are two options: Build and Compile. I know when I run a program it compiles only the files which have changed and uses the DCUs for those which haven't. When I click build appa...

Please could someone explain me what's the difference between public and published class members in Delphi? I tried to look at Delphi help and I understand that these members have the same visibil...

My Delphi installation has been going downhill for the past few months. It seems though that every so often when I build a release it has strange errors in it which are resolved if I build, then co...