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Cannot load form, unspecified error

Question: I have a project that exists on a NT 3.51 machine. When I copy all source code, etc. to my Win95 PC, Delphi does not load the main form.

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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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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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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

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An event when the table record changes

Question: While the OnDataChange event is called when a record is changed, it is called several times for each change and then each time a piece of data changes in

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Changing the Font

Question: I can’t stand the “new” font used in VB5’s pulldown menus and forms (ie. File, View, Tools, etc.).I’ve tried and tried, but I can’t seem to change it. Answer: