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Question: The ‘greater-than’ vs. ‘comment’ dilemna Answer: There is a trick in writing JavaScripts which all developers should learn as soon as possible. When putting a script in your HTML,

Question: I’m a VB programmer who is new to Delphi. How do I centralize event handling for related controls?In VB, there is a concept of control arrays in which each

Question: How do you change a button’s caption after it is created? Answer: Java’s Button class defines two methods for getting and setting a button’s caption. They are getLabel() and

Question: I used Oracle Forms for a long time to build Query By Form applications.I have recently switched to Delphi, and am wondering if it’s possible tobuild Query By Form

Question: How do I make a form a child of another form without having to resort to the overhead of MDI? Answer: MDI provides an easy and well-established way for

Question: How do I restore a window’s size and position? Answer: This new tip comes from Hamish. He has converteda TurboPascalfor Windows routine that allows you to save and restore

Question: I want to be able use a Web frontend for a databaseapplication. I would like to use Java to process theuser input and C for accessing the database. Myquestion

Question: I have an INI file that is approximately 20K with all entries in one section. If I use TIniFile’s ReadSection method, only part of the section gets loaded. Why?

Question: How do I create a LIST_SELECT event? Specifically, what should I put in the fields of the statement: Event anevent = new Event(mylst, event.when, event.LIST_SELECT, ?, ? event.key, event.modifiers,?)