May 9, 1997

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CreateOleObject errors

Question: My completed Delphi application exports Quick Reports to Excel. This operation is 99.5 percent successful, and users are delighted. I am one of the developers, and one of the

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Dialogs: Implementing your own execute method

Question: I use Delphi 1.0. The standard dialogs (such as TOpenDialog and TPrintDialog) offer a method called execute. It executes the form/dialog, and waits until it returns. I would like

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Paradox “Table is Full” error

Question: My Paradox table has grown to about 130 MB.Now whenever I try to insert a new record to the table (from code or Database desktop), I geta “Table is

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Date formatting with shortdateformat

Question: I’m using Delphi 2.0. My application changes the date format with ShortDateFormat:=’dd/mm/yyyy’ and dateseparator functions. It works, but I found that when I change the taskbar’s ontop or autohide

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Easiest connection to a database

Question: What is the easiest connection (installation at customer site and use in program) to a database ? BDE, ODBC or Paradox direct access? Answer: It depends on the database.

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Disksize/Diskfree problem

Question: I am writing a small Delphi 2.0 program to list out all the drives on a system, plus total and free disk space. No problem, except that with hard

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Key violation in networked Paradox table

Question: I have installed a Delphi 2.0 BDE application over a network where two terminals can access the table at the same time.I have checked the NET DIR to point

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Help on commands

Question: I’ve been programming in Turbo Pascal since v. 4.0 and have made the switch to Delphi 2.0. The only problem is all these new commands!Where on the Net or