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TEdit and right-justification of text

Question: How can I get a TEdit to display right-justified text? Answer: There is no way to do this at runtime because there’s no facility in TEditto right-align text. The

Screen resolution

Question: I am developing an application in Delphi 2.0 on a 1024×768 resolution (large fonts), and have been trying to get it to act properly in 800×600 mode with little

How to tell when to time-out

Question: How can I determine that a user has been inactive for a certain length of time so that I may exit the application? Answer: This is an interesting question

Two-table Update

Question: I’m a Paradox for Windows convert. In Paradox it’s a relatively simple thing to create a query that changes data in a field of one table with the values

How to implement a linked list

Question: How can I implement a linked list using Java, since there are no pointers? Can you provide sample code that uses a linked list?Thanks! Answer: You need pointers to

Tables and SQL

Question: How do you count the number of rows displayed in a DBGrid when displayed through a query? Using TQuery, I get 50 to 60 files, but want to know

TDBGrid

Question: How is possible to invert the order of a table display in a TDBGrid Component?Must it be an Index-DatabaseSource?For example, if in the database was stored:1Pippo2Gino 3PlutoHow is it

Scrolling status bar message

Question: How can I make a message that will scroll in the status bar? Answer: The following applet constructs a thread, passing it a messageand its browser context. The thread