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Compiled Program won’t Run

Question: I’m a Delphi rookie but an experienced programmer in Turbo Pascal.I’m trying to use DBF tables, with good results.But when I copy my compiled programs to a disketteand install

Passing Info to Word Processing Template

Question: I have a couple of questions about passing information to aword processing template and controlling the saving of the template toanother name. I appreciate any guidance you can provide.

Date Comparisons

Question: I cannot find much info on how to do Date math. I am trying to determine elapsed days from a record entry date to the current date. I am

DATABASES and TABLES

Question: I have a table. When I delete an item, the size of the table won’t change. I think the delete command for tables doesn’t move up the entries but

Calling a DOS Command

Question: How can you call a DOS command under Delphi 2.0? For example, I want to do a “TYPE >prn” from Delphi. Answer: You can do it with CreateProcess. Refer

Extending TCustomControl Painting

Question: I have two questions:Question 1:How can I extend the painting functionality of a TWinControl like the TGraphicControl‘s Paint method? Question 2:I cannot find the Paint method in TWinControl to

ActiveX/OCX objects in Delphi 3

Question: I am currently trying to convert three components to ActiveX components. I am doing this through Delphi 3, which I realize some people do not have access to.I need

Calling the Operator =

Question: How can I call the operator= of the base class from the operator=in the derived class?The data member in the base class is a private data member. I want

Difference between yield() and sleep()

Question: What is the difference between calling yield() and sleep()? Also, in what instances would you call either method? Answer: The Java platform uses the multithreading facilities of the host

ClassFormatError

Question: I’m a beginner in Java. I’ve tried two different applets now (one of which I borrowed from another site), both of which involved text fading and color changing. I

More than One Class in Same File?

Question: Is it possible to have more than one class in the same file ? Answer: Yes. The file Foo.java may contain several class declarations, but amongthem must be a

Changing Applet’s Background Color

Question: Can you tell me how to change the background color of an applet from the normal grey to white? I would greatly appreciate it. Answer: Try putting the line:

Memo Fields and Carets

Question: I need to be able to move the caret in my memo field back to the begining of the field. Any idea how I do this? Answer: Try this:Memo1.SelStart(0);This

Insufficient Memory, TFloatField in TQuery

Question: 1. I developed an application, but after running for about one hour, a message error: “Insufficient memory to do the operation” occurred. The error did not cause the application

DBGrid

Question: I am using a DBgrid. I have defined two NEW Persistent fields as lookupfields. In the Columns editor, I added them to the grid display. Those two fields are

Playing a sound collection

Question: I have 10 .wav files that I want to play in a loop.If I make the mmplayer wait property true, I suffer from control failure during the loop time.I

Is there a way to kill a sleeping thread?

Question: I am creating numerous threads on-the-fly in Delphi 2.0. I create them suspended. The question is: How do I make the threads go away? I’ve tried Free, Terminate… nothing

Dynamic Buffer

Question: I’m using Delphi to do a client-server application in which all the lines I get from a socket I send to a TMemo in my form. I want that

Flat Combo

Question: Do you know how to create a flat, non-3D combo box with only a thin black border? Setting CTL3D to False doesn’t seem to have an effect on the

Filtering Table Records

Question: I want to be able to filter records in a table based on criteria in, say, three combo boxes on a form. Answer: If you have indexes on those

Resizing Resolution

Question: How do I re-size the buttons, etc. on my forms when the resolution changes? If I create something in Delphi at a high resolution and run it on a

Putting a char into a Pchar

Question: I’m using the Winexec command and trying to use a string as the argument, but Winexec takes only a Pchar as its argument. I can’t figure out how to

What’s the C++ Equivalent to _getch()?

Question: What is the C++ equivalent to _getch()? I need to have program control immediately after any keypress in a DOS-based program. Answer: Unfortunately there is no specification in the

How to turn text string into Integer

Question: How can I turn a text string into an integer? Answer: You can convert a string to an integer by using the atoi function. For example:void foo (){int i

String handling in C++

Question: What is the best way to manipulate strings in C++? Answer: Here is an example.#include void foo (char *instring){ // Declare char array big enough to read in input

How to do large scalar math

Question: How can one do 64-bit or larger math calculations in C++? Do you know of a free class or class library that supports large scalar math? Answer: There are