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May 9, 1997

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

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

How to display “Record x of y”

Question: I am writing a database app in Delphi that is a Customer/Order Management System, and need to display a ‘3 of 7’ type info in the status bar. How

Hiding DLL from task bar

Question: How can I hide an application (in my case a DLL) from the taskbar in Win95 (Delphi 2.0) and still have the form active and visible? Answer: The easiest

Printing

Question: What is the best way to print infomation in Delphi 2.0? I have tried useing the Print() function to print a form, but it only prints what is viewable

Paradox: Lost Data?

Question: We’re concluding development of a Delphi 1.0 to 2.0 app and have found during user testing that after an app except, when the app terminates, all data entered has

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

DOS protected to Delphi 32-bit

Question: At present we have a large application that runs under DOS protected mode. It is written in Borland Pascal 7.0. We have a longer term project to convert it