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Question: What do the PRIVATE, PROTECTED, PUBLIC and PUBLISHED sections of a unit mean? Answer: They define the level of visibility of properties and methods of an object. In a

Question: How do you tell the amount of data contained in aTMemo component? Delphi1 has a finite TMemo limit and I want to check the available size beforeadding new text.

Question: How can I create a Delphi program without VCL components? Answer: This code is pretty useless, but is meant to demonstrate that youdo not need to use the VCL

Question: How can a server written in Java work like a UNIX daemon? To me it seems that a server cannot be an applet. Is it a standalone application? Answer:

Question: Is it possible to re-size arrays at runtime? Answer: I came across an exampleof how to do one. The author is BenLicht, who has come up with a brilliant

Question: When I try to run the appletviewer in DOS or try to run the JWS(Java Workshop) under Windows 95, it dumps a stack and gives me the following messages.

Question: When I add the code ‘update.text := dateToStr(Date)’ toOnUpdateChange of the DataSource, it works some of the time. Forexample, if the record is posted by moving to another record,

Question: I have a simple editor unit with a TMemo component whose text I want tosend to the printer. How can I do this? Answer: This is actually much easier

Question: Can forms be manipulated at runtime? Answer: Typically, you want to have your programs visibleand have the ability to switch to them; however, there are times when youhave a