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Question: I am using Delphi 1.0 and am having a hard time trying to find commands/procedures/modules to lock a record from a Paradox database. What should I do to lock

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

Question: I am developing a database/intranet package for which I need to use a grid based on a TQuery, but I only need a few of the fields to show

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

Question: We have a specialized ISA bus hardware card that has relays, etc. on it that are accessed by writing or reading to the PC’s I/O ports.How can I port

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

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

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

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