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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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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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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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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

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Business function in the MATH unit

Question: I recently incorporated the math unit into an application I’m building. Originally I was using OLE to Excel to perform my business calculations, and though this was a clean

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Changing Label Captions in a FOR Loop

Question: I’m trying something like this: for i:=0 to 1000 do label1.caption:=’I= ‘+inttostr(i); but the loop executed so fast, the label doesn’t display anything until the loop is over. This

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API declarations

Question: Where can I take all the new API declarations about the network, like: NetServerGetInfo, NetServerTransportAdd… Answer: If you just want the declarations, you can add Windows API Functions as