Tip Bank

Question: How can I create a form that will roll up; that is, a form that whenclicked will reduce its height to nothing but the title bar? Answer: I have

Question: How do I make my Delphi programs go to sleep? Answer: Note:Since the following was written, Delphi 2.0 has added a Sleep command. The following code can be used

Question: I have no experience with object-oriented languages, havingonly learned BASIC when I was a child. Most people say Java is easy,but in my case it’s not. I don’t understand

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