Tip Bank

Question: How do I copy a file in Delphi? Answer: H3>Reminiscing on Days Gone By…Back in the old DOS days, we took for granted copying a file from one place

Question: I’ve seen several shareware descendants of TDBGrid that don’t flicker when you move through the associated table.How do I get rid of the flickering in TDBGrid when you hold

Question: How can I add and remove columns from a table at run time? Answer: While I’m an avid supporter of Delphi, one of the most annoying things about it

Question: How do I get the field structures from a table, then load them intoa list of some sort? Answer: Accessing and Using the TFieldType While this isn’t the hardest

Question: How can I convert numbers to hexadecimal strings? Answer: Although it was not mentioned in the original documentation forJavaScript, the toString method has been available forconverting integers into strings

Question: Can I do the function which is like the macro in Clipper? For Example, Pass the (X*(Y+Z)) string to it and return the answer. Answer: I don’t see why

Question: Could you please tell me how to take a value from a field of a databse and store it as a variable. I want to take an int variable

Question: I can not use tha math functions which was included in math unit. when I use one of them , the compiler cant identify it. I add ‘math’ to

Question: When paint() iscalled, the clipRect of the Graphics obj may already be set to somethingsmaller than the full drawable region of the object (if, for instance, it’sa partial window-manager