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Question: My executable takes almost a minute to run. How can I speed up the process? I am not running any queries at this point?I wait until I actually show

Question: Is there a simple way to ascertain the names of all the controls on a particular form at run time? Answer: Every TComponent descendant has two properties, ComponentCount and

Question: In your answer to my previously posted topic, “Changing label captions in FOR loop,” you suggested I use “Sleep.” When I used it, the loop slowed down but didn’t

Question: I need a summary-select which summaries cumulative values. This one works in Microsoft Access: SELECT s.nl_item_id, s.nl_value, ( SELECT sum(sub.nl_value) FROM TABLE1 sub WHERE sub.nl_item_id

Question: I have been developing software in Foxpro 2.5 for DOS for many years. I have just bought a licensed VFP 6.0, I want to know what is new in

Question: When the browser is pointed to a directory with no default HTML page then, in most cases, it shows the directory contents. Is it possible to create an HTML

Question: I have a Delphi 3 application running on a Novell network, that uses Paradox tables. For some reason, some of the users get the following message every once in

Question: How can you convert Delphi to C++? Answer: I don’t know of any conversion tools out there that do this, though I could be wrong. If you’re using both

Question: How do I typecast text to LPARAM? LPARAM is supposed to be an integer, but clearly the API call wants text. I’m assuming I missed some pchar>string or pointer