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Problem Closing Forms

Question: I created the main search screen form SearchScrn (fsNormal) with the ability to create as many new forms on the fly (they are not children of MDI form) as

Adding Resources to an EXE

Question: How can I add resources to an EXE or DLL? I am using Delphi 3 at the moment. For example, I want to use a new Cursor (a self

Activate Popup Hints

Question: I want to activate those small popup windows (the ones that appear when you hold your mouse over a program icon in the Taskbar to tell you what appears

Selecting One Person Per Address

Question: I have a mailing list with one record per person, but I want to mail to only one person per household. How can I select just the first record

Visualizing PowerBuilder

Question: I have a difficult time using PB because I can’t see the code flow. I am an experienced programmer with COBOL, PL/1, and SQL and have taken several PB

Wizard interfaces

Question: Do you know any good Web sites or have any tech tips on creating wizard interfaces? Answer: Creating wizard interfaces is straight-forward when you know how. All a wizard

RDBMS

Question: What is RDBMS? Answer: It’s lingo for “Relational Data Base Management System.”

Bin – Convert from decimal to binary

‘ convert from decimal to binary’ if you pass the Digits argument, the result is truncated’ to that number of digits” NOTE: requires Power2()Function Bin(ByVal value As Long, Optional digits